Why My Pregnant Self is Crying

JustAnotherUsername16 · July 2016

I don't know about y'all, but my emotions are all over the place! In a previous board, I found these posts about why we were crying humorous, but also relieving that I was not the only one! So to start us off...

Last night I was craving chocolate at like 10 PM (how I was up that late was a different kind of miracle) but then realized that my grocery store had closed ten minutes before, so naturally I bawled my eyes out. 11 hours later and I still want chocolate...

kaylaef · July 2016

I cry because of that damn huggies commercial with the hugs. Every. Damn. Time. It got me with my son too.

ihateusernames* · July 2016

Every children's movie I watch with the kids makes me ugly cry.
Recents are, the croods, zootopia, the Lego movie, mega mind

dubcompanion · July 2016

I never saw Lilo & Stitch until the other night, and even then, I can't really say I've seen it because I was busy working on coursework. I happened to pause and see the scene where Stitch is saying "I'm lost" in the dark. BIG FAT TEARS. The next day, DH is telling our friends how I burst out crying at that scene, and upon remembering it, I started crying all over again - this time in public. Thanks, hubs.

dubcompanion · July 2016

@ihateusernames* I watched the first ten minutes of Up yesterday, so I could get a good cry sesh out. Works every time.

ngcsugirl1112 · July 2016

I saw a video about a dog on facebook this morning and cried at work...

EALasagna45 · July 2016

Ugh yes I hear you on the animal thing @ngcsugirl1112! I saw an album cover that had a 3 legged dog on it and sobbed. I'm sure or at least hoping it was photoshopped, but still.

MrsNap_515 · July 2016

ihateusernames* said:

Every children's movie I watch with the kids makes me ugly cry.
Recents are, the croods, zootopia, the Lego movie, mega mind

@ihateusernames* Brave does it for me EVERY time...and we watch it at least once a week since DD is obsessed with Merida...the whole mom/daughter bond thing gets me since losing my mom, I sob like a lunatic LOL

MrsNap_515 · July 2016

I'm a cryer to begin with, but lately I cry over everything, like if DH does something nice/thoughtful, I'm bawling like an idiot LOL It doesn't help that i'm still on hormones too hahaha

dubcompanion · July 2016

@MrsNap_515 So sorry you've lost your mom and I don't blame you at all for sobbing over Brave, pregnant or not.

I just watched a throwback to the 1996 Olympics U.S. gymnastics team a.k.a. the Magnificent 7.
This sums me up right now.

afbaby0715 · July 2016

I cried last night because DH ate all the bacon. He looked at me like I was a lunatic, but I really needed bacon lol

direwolfmini · July 2016

Home by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros came on the radio. Then my husband told me we were both born on Fridays. sigh.

MrsNap_515 · July 2016

Thanks @dubcompanion

It's been 10 years, but sometimes feels like yesterday, I'm just grateful that she got to meet my DH (then boyfriend), but sad that my children will never meet her...and these pregnancy hormones just add to this LOL

Lizer514 · July 2016

I finally got my lab work results back (and had thoroughly convinced myself this morning that it was going to be bad news) and everything is really good!! Even my progesterone levels are good and that's been my main issue for years.....literally bawled my eyes out in the grocery store parking lot

gracie4400 · July 2016

I saw Finding Dory last night with a friend and started tearing up when Dory was a child and lost her parents. The friend I was with doesn't know I'm pregnant yet so I did a pretty good job of holding my emotions in, but when I came home I sobbed to husband for a good 10 minutes. People have always said pregnancy hormones mess with your emotions but I never thought it would be like this!

Scarlett830 · July 2016

So I don't cry. Not ever. My mother calls my grandmother "the cold German" because of her lack of showy emotions, and tells me (often and angrily -- there is no Lorelai/Rory relationship here) that I'm "just like her." But this article got me just a bit choked up. No tears, but as close as I will probably come.

https://www.scarymommy.com/wont-let-go-youngest-child/?utm_source=bestof&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=bestof

kjd291 · July 2016

I cried last night because there was no new episode of the bachelorette available to watch on the tv app and I'd been looking forward to it all day.

MrsNap_515 · July 2016

gracie4400 said:

I saw Finding Dory last night with a friend and started tearing up when Dory was a child and lost her parents. The friend I was with doesn't know I'm pregnant yet so I did a pretty good job of holding my emotions in, but when I came home I sobbed to husband for a good 10 minutes. People have always said pregnancy hormones mess with your emotions but I never thought it would be like this!

@gracie4400 me too!! that part in the beginning was SO sad!!!!

wintersong · July 2016

Today I didn't cry, but I spazzed out on my husband after he was not home to take out the stinky rotten lamb meat trash.

He goes to work. Of course he was not home.

It has begun....

jmacd22 · July 2016

Just turned on the Espys and already started crying. I guess I just realized how much I love sports lol

Cats*in*space · July 2016

Just got home from a Dixie Chicks concert. Started ugly crying when they played "Travelin' Soldier".

tryphyna-2 · July 2016

A few days before my BFP, I nearly started crying because our B&B didn't serve us as much for breakfast, and there was no pate that morning. My husband kept saying we could just ask for more, but I was just so upset that it wasn't the same as the morning before. I was so upset, and remember thinking "Wow, PMS is really bad this month!"

Hubby thought I was losing my mind lol. I think he was relieved when he connected the dots later and realized it was the growing sprout's fault

hippiemama-2 · July 2016

DD hit me in the face with her cup on accident. And DH asked me if I did something that I had forgotten to do.

I NEVER cry. Like really, never, except for when I'm pregnant. So I was sobbing and laughing for a good 30 minutes.

Here we go again.

veeveemama59 · July 2016

All 4 One was singing "I Swear" on ABCs new show Greatest Hits....I feel like my tears were justified.

liepertsm · July 2016

I was watching a show last night that had a kid graduating high school and leaving home for college.

Bluebird2318 · July 2016

I don't get more emotional during pregnancy, but things that have gotten me to tear up in general within the past month or so: Judy kicking butt at the animal police academy in Zootopia (she was living her dream, okay!) and a Buzzfeed video of a Holocaust survivor describing the day Allied forces arrived.

kaylaef · July 2016

It'd my dogs fourth birthday. I held him and cried for 20 minutes.

RunBooRun · July 2016

I was watching Frozen last night - parents death had me in tears.
My cat is fuzzy and adorable (not kidding).

onefootinthebayou · July 2016

I'm not a crier. I'm very newly pregnant so I haven't experienced anything emotional except sadness that my old life is over assuming this goes to term. I guess I'm happy about it but I REALLY liked our life before children. We'll see. No crying though, I don't even feel pregnant.

ShaunaT25 · July 2016

The news. The world is unavoidably crazy right now, and every bit of news I see makes me cry. People mowed down by a truck in France, 5 year old girl and her mother murdered in Alberta, and the all kinds of crazy that is happening down in the US. I need a bubble, does anyone know where I can purchase a bubble?

shae86 · July 2016

@ShaunaT25 I feel the same. When I heard the news last night, all I could think was, "I do not have the emotional capacity to handle another mass tragedy." I just can't do it. I hate that I'm choosing to avoid details about it right now, but it's the only way I won't fall apart.

I'm the type of person who will tear up over a sad or touching story (Humans of New York gets me every time), but I'm not super emotional usually. On Sunday (right before I found out I was pregnant) I watched a documentary series called Generation X on the National Geographic channel. It was great, but I sobbed through it, especially the parts about marriage equality and how families and cultural norms have evolved since the 60s and 70s. All the emotions were out that night.

dubcompanion · July 2016

TW -

I hope I don't come off as sounding like I think the world revolves around my life, but I found it disconcerting last night that both times I've been pregnant in the past year, France has been attacked. When Paris was terrorized, I was 4 days shy of my first OB appt. at 8 weeks and sobbed through the night. I was already anxious about the appt and on top of that, terrified of the world I was bringing life into. I ended up miscarrying barely a month later.
I'm pregnant again, and saying "Vive la France" in the early stages of pregnancy, yet again anxious for an upcoming 8 week appt., just reminds me that (in conjunction with the other shit that's occurring in our very own country as well as internationally) the world is a scary place.

That all said, I think it's important to stay informed and rather than try to get too doom and gloom, to reflect on how, as parents, we are going to raise our children to be part of the change and goodness our world needs.

kiki75 · July 2016

Was in a meeting at work and some scuttlebutt on the competition came up. They made a bold move recently that isn't resonating with all cultures. In one country, their revenue is down significantly and rumor has it they're going to lay off about 25 people. The company as a whole is the quintessential corporate monster but the people who are going to lose their jobs? Just people like you and me, trying to take care of their families and pay their bills. I had to distract myself to keep from crying in the middle of the meeting.

sammajane19 · July 2016

i was thinking about the recent terrorist attack in france and the racial violence here in america and how awful and terrible everything is and then i watched this video and was reminded that, despite all its pain and drudgery, it is still a beautiful world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJcQYVtZMo

and then i started crying, at work.

mtmama2 · July 2016

@Kiki75 SO glad to see you over here! Lots of amazing TTGP grads in the March BMB

Cats*in*space · July 2016

I cried watching someone else's ultrasound on youtube.

DarkSerendipity · July 2016

Watching Nanny McPhee. I started ugly crying at the end, when the shadows of the snowflakes are falling across the empty pink chair, and it was downhill from there.

vino831 · July 2016

RunBooRun said:

I was watching Frozen last night - parents death had me in tears.
My cat is fuzzy and adorable (not kidding).

Spoiler alert!!!!

I get it... I'm like the world's 4% that hasn't seen it yet!

ShaunaT25 · July 2016

MK1013 said:

I read a Facebook status that's being shared by a mom who lost her little boy in a tragic car accident. Seriously, if you come across it, don't read it if you don't want to cry. I cried myself to sleep last night after reading it. It was absolutely devastating, my heart physically hurt.

I read this last night and was a total mess too.

dubcompanion · July 2016

MK1013 said:

I read a Facebook status that's being shared by a mom who lost her little boy in a tragic car accident. Seriously, if you come across it, don't read it if you don't want to cry. I cried myself to sleep last night after reading it. It was absolutely devastating, my heart physically hurt.

This post alone alone made me cry, and I haven't even come across the story on Facebook yet.

kjd291 · July 2016

My DD is 11mo today. So that means in 1more month she's one. Which makes me emotional. Time goes by too fast!

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