'I took one look at the bananas and broke down in tears'It's a well-known fact that many women become emotional wrecks while pregnant. A sad song or film and anything with children and animals in it can reduce even the steeliest temperament to tears. But what's the silliest thing you've ever cried about during those nine months of hormonal upheaval? babyworlders confess all...
'I cried this weekend because I spilled my tea. I just felt like a huge
whale of a clutz at that moment, especially because I was at my in-laws
and my husband acted like it was a crisis to clean it up before it messed
up his mother's lino flooring. I didn't want to cry, but as soon as my
lip started to quiver I couldn't stop the tears! I know now, it's silly,
it's just the hormones and it was just a stinkin' cup of tea anyway, not
the end of the world.' 'Dan ran into preschool nursery and his new "best friend ever" was there
as his mum was a little late picking him up. I'd told him he wasn't at
the same session as him so he didn't expect to see him. Watching the two
of them hug each other to the ground made me burst into tears!' 'My husband offered to sleep in the lounge the night before last so
I could get a good night's sleep in the bed. I cried then and am welling
up again now!' 'Hubby put the salad cream in the "wrong" place in the fridge a while
back. At first I yelled at him when he walked through the door, then after
I cried for ages as I felt silly for yelling! I then cried on my honeymoon
as we had gone on a trip and part of that trip was to a WW1/2 museum.
I tried to hold it back but spent ages in the loos hoping I would stop
sobbing before we had to be back on the coach. After spending the entire
time at the museum either in the loos or outside in the garden sobbing
uncontrollably I finally calmed down enough to get onto the coach in time.' 'At one point, I broke down completely because I couldn't find the socks
I wanted to put in my hospital bag. It took me a few hours and a good
deal of cuddles before I calmed down!' 'I cried my eyes out the other day when I was looking in the freezer
deciding what I was going to do for dinner and I found loads of food that
needed to be thrown away. I was so cross that the food had been wasted
and I just sat on the kitchen floor crying! It's funny now, thinking about
it, but it wasn't at the time.' 'When I was pregnant I split my pyjama bottoms and sobbed uncontrollably
for well over an hour. My fiance bought me some new ones for my birthday
a few days later and that set me off again!' 'I used to get terribly upset at the Car Phone Warehouse ads they used
to have on the TV, with the nice little happy phones that were abandoned
or destroyed by their owners wanting new posh ones. I even wrote a stinking
to the president even to complain about how distressing their ads were
to emotionally vulnerable pregnant women! (Luckily I never posted it.)'
'I cried over a cracked egg last night. The bread bin lid dropped back
down and smashed the egg I had ready, and I started crying. I still have
no idea why. We had a box full of eggs.' I cried every time I saw the SMA ad with the dad talking when I was pregnant
- I blubbed like a wuss! It worked too - it's the formula we use! However,
I cried when we got home from the hospital after having George and I watched
the season finale of "House" - it was the saddest thing I think I've ever
seen and I bawled so much, my husband took the baby away from me as he
was worried I'd squash him! Definitely hormones...' Oh, I am always sentimental about things like Car Phone Warehouse ads,
Thomas the Tank Engine too - I really hate the fact they have to be "really
useful engines" to have any value, and that they get scrapped for not
working hard enough.' 'I am in tears probably 4 or 5 times a week at the moment. Sometimes
I just get unaccountably emotional over a song on the TV or something,
but the best one was when we were taking our daughter for a walk along
the canal towpath and her sunhat was blown into the canal. I was devastated,
in floods of tears "because it was such a nice hat, and I won't get another
one as nice, and it only cost £1.50 in the sale". My husband didn't understand
it at all, surprisingly! He thought I was making a fuss over nothing.'
'I was an emotional wreak during my pregnancy and would cry at anything.
My crowning moment came when shopping in Tesco's; I felt totally fine,
not sad or upset at all, but I took one look at the bananas and just broke
down in floods of tears! Poor old husband didn't know what to do - I kept
saying I was fine, and I was, I just couldn't stop crying and didn't know
why!' I'm quite an emotional person anyway - but, yes, when I was pregnant
both times anything could start me off. I remember crying because I had
gone off Marmite (made me sick) and was devastated as love Marmite! Thankfully
I can now eat it again.' I cried a lot during my second pregnancy. I'd arranged a meet with a
member of Jan 2002 antenatal club. Our first meeting was on the 11th Sept
2001 (the day the planes hit the Twin Towers). We'd never met before but
the pair of us sat in John Lewis with a cuppa and blubbed like idiots.
Also every time I had to buy a card for any reason I'd burst into tears
- some of the words in cards are just so nice. I often had to leave my
shopping in Asda or Tesco and go and sit in the car and calm down.' 'I cried at everything when I was pregnant. The worst moment was when
I was in floods of tears watching the Kandoo advert, "the boy can go to
the toilet by himself now with Kandoo!". My non-pregnant self is scornful
of the money making idea of 'big boy wetwipes'!
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