Anyone else feeling incredibly emotional?

[dianna11]

Today is 38w4d, and DD was born at 38w4d.
I've been pretty mellow this pregnancy until Friday, when I couldn't stop crying - and today is the same.

I feel isolated even though DD and I get out every day for at least 2 hours. We just go for walks, we don't really meet up with anyone. I don't really have any close friends and most of my other 'friends' are in the computer

I'm feeling like there are unresolved issues with me and DH - just minor, but unresolved.

I'm feeling scared about having another baby here - like I won't be able to take care of him, or breastfeed him (I have NO rational reasoning for this - I bf DD for 18 months easily, and I know deep down I'm a good mom, again - it's irrational.

I'm feeling ugly and frumpy and I'm fearing losing as much hair as I did last time.

I'm feeling like the only people slightly excited about this baby are me and my mom - and the lack of friends around me making a big deal about it is bringing down my enthusiasm. DH is preparing for the baby, but he's not excited. It doesn't worry me, as he was the same with DD and he's an amazing father, he's just being a guy.

So all in all, nothing BIG, just a few small things that my hormones are blowing out of proportion. I just don't know what to do with it.

Ugh

[Barefootmystic]

Seriously, I think you and I are twins. I've been having such a rough go of things emotionally these last few weeks I don't even know who on earth this person is who has invaded my body but it sure as heck ain't me!! All I can say to you my dear is that this too will pass and that you aren't alone. I'm so glad that you posted this, I made a very similar post a few days ago and literally just writing it out made me feel so much better so I'm hoping you will feel the same from writing your thoughts out too. (besides the ladies here are just awesome and they always post back with such positivity you can't help but feel a little better.)

Lots and lots of to you, I hope you will feel better soon.

[New_Natural_Mom]

I don't have any real close friends here. Everyone is busy and living their own lives. It is easy to feel isolated and alone. Just because we are all in an online community doesn't mean that we don't care about and support you. Just remember there are countless women here who are sending positive vibes your way.

Hang in there mama!

[1Plus2]

Originally Posted by Barefootmystic

Seriously, I think you and I are twins.

Nope....we're triplets...actually we're quads. I was just talking to Nichole (doulanichole) about this today. We're both feeling this way so you are so totally not alone on this!

[Smokering]

*hugs* Oh dear! I know what you mean, although I'm not going through it right now (I'm only 36 weeks, so maybe it's coming). I felt like that about a month ago, though. Poor DH... he had to cope with me randomly panicking that he was going to leave me/not love me any more/not like the baby/resent being a father, when I really had no reason to think any of those things!

I'm a bit worried about losing hair, too--mine is LONG and it'd take forever for the regrowth to catch up! So I'm supplementing with Biotin. Might be an idea? It's good stuff--it certainly helps my hair grow faster. I've heard Silica is good too, but I haven't tried it.

[Lolafanana]

I think it tends to happen near the end. I have had an a very uneventful pregnancy and all of a sudden today, I have been crying over everything. It started with me seeing a van full of elderly people that snowballed into me calling my dh and trying to go over our own unresolved issues which lead into hysterics over my dd going to college (she's 2) which lead to me thinking about my Grandma, etc etc etc..........

I kind of think it's our bodies way of releasing some stress and tension before catapulting us into labor, making us stronger to handle it. Hang in there!!!!!!

Diana

[rmzbm]

[~Katrinka~]

You're not alone. Last night, as I was brushing my teeth, I suddenly started to cry. And today, while I was waiting in the pickup line to get my dd from school, I really had to fight the tears back because I was playing music for my little guys and heard "Somewhere over the Rainbow". I had just gotten myself under control, when I looked out the window and saw a woman who was pregnant at the same time I was last year. She was pushing her baby in a carriage....and here I am still waiting for a baby. It was hard to see her.

A couple of times, I have started off labor with a big old cryfest for no reason. I think there's some hormonal process at work there, plus maybe a emotional process of letting go of your pregnancy at the end.

to everyone who could use one today.

[ishereal]

Sorry not in your DDC but..... Do you mean like crying becuase you can't find the charger to your digital camera ........hmmmmmmmmm. the yeah I am a bit emotional

[CherryBomb]

It's definitely normal. I'm very easily irritated right now (dd1 wanted to cuddle on the couch when she got home from school and I felt like I was going to crawl out of my skin, I felt so bad for not wanting to be touched!) I'm easy to irritate normally, it's just 100x worse right now. I don't get weepy really, though. I did freak out on dh this morning and I can't even really remember why. Uggh.

I'm nervous about my VBA2C. I was so confident last time and still had a c/s. Blah.

[lilkat]

Can I join the club? A few days ago my cat knocked over his tupperware container of his food. I sat there on the hall floor cleaning up and bawling my eyes out, refusing any help from DH. This morning DH put on the new Mike Doughty CD on our way to work and I immediately burst into tears. DH looked at me like I'd grown a second head. "I'm not sad!" I cried, "The music is just really overwhelming!" "You must really like Mike Doughty, " he said I cry during the trailers if we go to the movie theatre, too.

Oh, my poor DH. He's been taking such great care of me even though I am an utter basket case...

[~ally~]

I am so glad this is normal. I have been weepy too - the weirdest one was over not being able to decide what to eat. I'm only at 36 weeks, though. Does it mean he's coming early?

[~ani~]

Last night there was a documentary on TV about babies accidentally born at home (mom meant to go to the hospital but baby came too soon). Everything went PERFECTly - baby was healthy and adorable, mom was fine... and they put them in 2 different ambulances to take them to the hospital - baby all alone naked in an incubator, bawling, waving his little limbs all around, blinking his little eyes, LOOKING FOR HIS MAMA! I just cried and cried and cried, tears pouring down my face wanting him to be with his mom... they were reunited at the hospital... but I spent the whole evening repeating to my husband "why couldn't he have ridden in his mama's arms?" over and over... I'm *never* like this!!

[Leslie in Chicago]

I can't watch "nature" shows anymore. The other day dh put on some public TV show about wild animals and I loved it -- until the hunt scene. A baby something was stalked and killed by another animal and I couldn't stop crying. Dh had to change the channel and I left the room. And anything with dolphins -- even happy, alive dolphins -- I'm a mess.

[Catherine12]

I'm always sappy during pregnancy, but I've definitely noticed a big increase in emotions in the last week (I'm at 36 weeks 1 day right now).

The other day I just melted down at breakfast for no reason... freaked out my dh. He kept saying "You weren't like this during your other pregnancies!"

I think a lot of it is sleep deprivation - I can't get comfortable and I keep waking up to pee. I get about 6 fragmented hours of sleep a night. I'm looking forward to the baby coming so I can get more sleep

[dianna11]

Originally Posted by Catherine12

I think a lot of it is sleep deprivation - I can't get comfortable and I keep waking up to pee. I get about 6 fragmented hours of sleep a night. I'm looking forward to the baby coming so I can get more sleep

Ahhhh, soon we will be able to sleep on our backs or tummies *sigh* I remember Izzy's first couple of months, I was getting far more sleep than I was when pregnant. She would wake up and self-serve from my boob, I figured I didn't need to stay awake for it, so I just went back to sleep


I'm feeling a little better today, I booked a hair appointment, and decided to take on one more client - although she knows that I will be taking a month off for mat leave (dratted self-employment). Actually, I feel a little more like a useful human being when I have at least one client to deal with. Granted, she is 20 minutes late

DH and took some time to hang out and chat last night, and that helped too. I don't feel like we actually discussed what I was feeling was a problem, but spending time together was a good solution anyhow

[yoga_mama88]

I have ALSO been feeling very tearful and crying for silly reasons lately- I'm 37 weeks and feeling quite emotional as well.
i feel the same way about DH. This is #3 baby for us, and i think he just doesn't have the emotional capacity to be as involved this time around. He's struggling with a bit of a career crisis- no longer wants to be in the corporate world and would rather be a photographer, so i can understand.
But it's hard when i'm trying to take care of our two little ones AND set up for a new baby.
I feel like I have to keep nudging him to get things done for the baby and then I feel guilty b/c I feel like I'm being a nagging wife.
And, oh my, has the NESTING started! It's amazing!
Dusting everything and cleaning the floors and pretty much going thru every closet in the house. I had to organize the laundry room this past weekend.
I find it SO funny that it has taken over my life!
I did NOT nest with my first two!

Thanks for sharing, everyone, it makes me feel so much more human!