Anyone else having frequent meltdowns?

[Amila]

I feel like I have PRE-partum depression. I have been so happy and relaxed this whole pregnancy (cranky at times, yes) but happy for the most part. Then about a month ago I began having all these negative thoughts about how I will never just be able to get up and make a midnight run with DF to the grocery store "just because" or go on a drive because I just feel like it. I am mourning what I feel is the loss of our coupledom, and he just doesn't get it! He views the baby as being something that will make everything better not worse, and I know he is right, but I have just been feeling really sad lately. Also, I freak out on him for stupid stuff and just have been acting like a brat in general. Like tonight, we planned to go to the movies, but now I am being stupid and not going because another couple is going and I just don't feel like dealing with them all. I guess maybe I am getting anxious to have this baby. Anyone else going through this?

[Yin Yang]

I am sorry you are feeling that way, but I tihnk it's totally normal to feel that way. I am expecting number 2 so I am not really mouning the loss of freedom anymore, but I've been there and I know what you are talking about.
I think it's better say that things will be DIFFERENT rather then better when baby comes along.
Anyway, you'll be fine! Life is going to change, but it's a good change.
I just rememebred the movie "Lost in translation" how he (the main character - can't remember his name) was talking about his kids to that girl and he said: "The minute my son was born my life as I knew it was OVER". It was really funny and so true! But again, he did not say worse!!

Everything is gonna be fine!! I know that last few days/weeks of waiting makes you think too much!! I KNOW THAT MYSELF!! That's why I hate waiting! I think way too much....

[TeaghansMama]

i had a big meltdown tonight too. asked dh to take out the compost yesterday and it was still sitting there when i went to make dinner tonight. plus he filled up an empty iced tea pitcher with water and left it in the sink... AND! he left the bug light on for the last 3 days even though we haven't set foot outside.
perfectly reasonable triggers for a crying, hysterical fit, right? lol
i mean... should i have been a little irritated? sure, fine. but even all three events didn't warrant the meltdown i had.
sorry you are feeling stressed, Mama. this is baby #2 for me so i'm not dealing with the same life changing issues you are (although going from 1 to 2 will be life changing, no doubt) but i can sympathize with the meltdown part.
take care of yourself... won't be too much longer now!

[AidansMommy1012]

Things do change, and it takes some adjusting, but it's not bad. You're still a couple, you're just parents, too. You'll learn how to integrate your new roles into your life and things will smooth out after awhile. DS is 21 months now, and, while I know that there was a time when DH and I were childless, it really doesn't seem that way. And it doesn't bother us.

I think I've been a little hormonal lately. I felt very weepy yesterday and nearly burst into tears on the phone when my best friend said she couldn't come to dinner at our house because her DS was asleep. Which is something that, normally, I would totally understand. I just sulked around the house for a bit, and then it went away.

[TanyaS]

Yup, me too. Was doing fine this last week when it hit me today. I'm just feeling kind of icky and tired today. Hopefully tomorrow will be a new day!

[Yin Yang]

I guess I am joing the club today....I feel so DEPRESSED today!! I have been having such bad cramping for past 2 days it is scaring me to death about upcoming birth....I have given birth before, but I was not scared. I am starting to get scared from giving birth...I don't wanna do it!
it's such a contradiction because I want this baby OUT NOW but I don't wanna give birth....

sorry, I just had to vent.....I feel like an emotional wreck today!

[elsanne]

It's funny, I was a total BEEE-ATCH the last few weeks of my pregnancy, witnessing myself behave this way but unable to change it. Ugh. I think it's pretty normal....soo uncomfortable!