More emotional as we get farther along?

[J2]

I'm 38wks today. Last week I noticed several days where I was getting increasingly more emotional and today I am definitely more emotional. Is this common? If being emotional was a sign that labor was coming soon, then I'd be thinking I'm about to have a baby!

*sigh* Tonight I'm going to suck it up and go to our couple's small group. I wasn't going to go because I was actually trying to listen to my body and give it some rest. But DH sort of twisted my arm into going. (long story) Of course, he is always disappointed when I miss a church activity but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. If I or my DS is sick, then yeah, we have to miss. And well...I'm 38wks pg and wanted to miss tonight so I could rest. But for various reasons, now I'm going. I'll just make sure to give DH some "extra" things to do around the house tonight so I don't have to worry about them tomorrow. Not to be or sound mean by doing that but really - I can only do so much right now this pg and with a toddler.

[tanyam926]

Yes!

I feel like I am about to crack up lately.

On Fri. I cried bc my cell phone wasn't working and bc I had to go to Home Depot and it was too overwhelming.

Everyone is driving me crazy, I don't want to leave my house, I just want to crawl into bed and stay there until this baby is born.

My cx are getting increasingly painful but are going nowhere (I am 39+2) so I am just feeling miserable. I am not in a hurry to have this baby but I want something to happen or to feel comfortable atleast. One or the other.

I just feel like crying and I can't stop this feeling, it's not like my normal self at all.

I remember feeling like this the week before my other 2 were born so I know it's coming soon. Hopefully bc I feel like I am going insane!!!!!

[boobyfeeder]

I burst into tears on Sunday b/c I couldn't fit a dress I thought I could. I started crying tonight b/c I could only eat 1 1/2 pieces of pizza, and it didn't taste as good as I wanted it to. Times like these I am so thankful to live across the street from my mom, so I can escape temporarily into the quiet and have a cup of tea and a chat. So yeah, completely normal to be so emotional, especially at the end.

[Mamato3wild ponnie]

Sunday i cried and cried, and today i am 39 weeks. I'm feeling very sensitive and vulnerable right now. I want to be comfortable and cant seem to find a happy medium with anything i do. You are not alone.

[LegalScrapper]

My hormones are all over the place - happy, sad, irritable. I cry at the drop of a hat anymore.

[allisonrose]

My emotions feel very raw here as well. I feel overwhelmed with the decisions we still have remaining and just feel like crawling in bed and hiding under the covers.

[Baby_Cakes]

36+2 here, and yes, I'm also feeling very vulnerable and emotional as the days go by. I had a crying fit on Sunday over a stupid comment my BIL made, like, literally sobbing on DH and just felt plain awful about myself. I don't want to go out in public anymore. I don't fit in any of my clothes. My bras are so uncomfortable. It's enough to push anyone over the edge, I would think.

[GriffsKat]

Yeppers! Me too. After reading some of the replies I found myself shaking my head in agreement. I'm there with ya! It seems like any little thing will make me want to cry and I don't cry, not usually! I was like this before my DD was born. It must be par for the course.

[joshs_girl]

Sometimes I'm cry-ey - but mostly, I'm glad I'm done with the "I want to kill everyone" phase I went through about 36-37 weeks.

[waterjen]

it's the hormonal shifts before labor...
that's the good news i guess...
i'm having a tough time too...definitely don't want to cope with the world outside my house (especially the pace) am not driving or going out by myself except to take walks and do farmer's market shopping or little stores (everywhere else is tooo stressful)
not thinking too clearly either which makes decision making impossible...

[spanica]

This was probably due more to being exhausted than emotional, but the other day when I was having a tough time trying to do some meal planning and not getting any help from DH, I let myself throw a tantrum for a few seconds -- you know, the kind where you stomp your feet and pound your fists and shake yourself and shriek. It made me feel ridiculous and helped me to laugh at myself, and that made me feel better.

[youngsoul]

I'm having that not-want-to-leave-the-house issue too...the world definitely looks a bit too stressful out there right now. Hoping I don't feel the same way once baby is here!

[lcaitlin]

heck yeah! much more emotional. just ask my dh

[funfunkyfantastic]

yeah... i'm getting more emotional. But I think it's because I really thought i'd have had this baby by now, and i'm miserable, and the midwife is threatening induction due to high BP and possible preclamsya. I don't want to go to the hospital! I just wish there was some way to encourage this baby to come a little faster.

[cellarstella]

I keep wanting to read birth stories, but I'm so emotional that I'm bawling by the end of every one! I have a hard time dealing with my toddler's crying, too... it makes me want to cry. A few times we've just cried together. We're both having a hard time these days!

funfunkyfantastic-- I wish there was a way to encourage the midwife to get off your case!

[dimibella]

Yeah, it's been pretty bad for me lately. I was a basket case the other night and it kinda comes and goes, my poor hubby and kids.

[HinesMaMa]

Yea everyday is getting worse and worse. I snapped tonite and I'm not sure exactly why, and my kids are putting me over the edge eventhough they are just being kids. I am 38+ weeks and I think its the anticipation and nervousness about not knowing "when" mixed with hormones....I have been trying to run errands and keep my mind off of things, but then I get an agonizing reminder in the form of a contraction that never quite sticks around right in the middle of my grocery trip. I am really trying to be positive but my hormones are out of whack big-time. I too wish I could crawl into bed and not do anything until baby says its time to go.

[SkyMomma]

Defintately more emotional...This week has been such a roller-coaster with DS1 going to kinder--first time in any regualr childcare away from me. I've been anxious & sad & trying to make small talk with the other moms at school makes me grit my teeth. Mostly tho', just sad & weepy abt DS1, anxious & excited about this birth, and wicked wicked bitchy at times. I'm not feeling like staying in the house, but really having a hard time dealing in polite ways with other people.

[newclementine]

super-duper

I felt like crying, tears came to my eyes, yesterday when the lifeguard approached me yesterday, I thought he was going to aks me to change lanes where I was swimming (he didn't)