How Pregnancy Has Turned Me Into a Crazy Person
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I found out I was pregnant on a lazy summer day in August, and things started out really well. My husband and I were excited. We had logical discussions about everything from our financial situation to painting the nursery. Then… I completely lost it. I feel badly for my husband, who is now living with a crazy person. A few examples:
I cry all the time. Over everything (a.k.a. nothing). One night, we couldn’t agree on a restaurant for dinner. He wanted Mexican, and I wanted a delicious sandwich from a restaurant three hours away. When I couldn’t come up with a compromise, I did the logical thing and burst into tears. Duh. Also, I now cry over romantic comedies. Sickening.
I obsess constantly over my symptoms, or lack thereof. If my nausea eases up for a day, I start obsessively googling “pregnancy complications” and read every single sad and scary story possible. One day, I swerved down the street frantically groping myself because my boobs had stopped hurting. Luckily, everything is fine.
I’d been dying to tell everyone about my pregnancy, but now that we’re finally telling, I’m all nervous and weird. Seriously, I’ve been blurting it in the most inappropriate manner. “Hey grandma, will you please pass the salt, and by the way I’m totally knocked up!”
At night, I prance around with my shirt raised to show off my “bloat bump.” I even force my husband to look at it and talk to the baby. I know it’s not a real baby bump yet, because I’m always skinny again in the morning. But a girl can pretend, right?
My food habits are a little freaky. I got an intense craving for sushi a couple weeks ago, and my husband was happy to oblige. Of course, I had to order the California roll. When my husband’s delicious looking sushi arrived at the table, I immediately began stabbing out the chunks of raw fish with my chopsticks so I could eat his. Furthermore, I dry heave every time I open the refrigerator. One day, I ate pasta with (pasteurized) feta cheese and sundried tomatoes; I spent the next two weeks gagging every time I thought about it. It’s no wonder I cry when forced to choose a restaurant.
Unfortunately, I have this sneaking suspicion that I might just get much, much crazier between now and my due date in April. If you find yourself biting off your husband’s head over dirty dishes in the sink or his inability to recycle an empty milk carton (à la the photo above), don’t worry. You’re not alone.
What crazy things have you been experiencing now that you’re pregnant?
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This totally resonated with my experience…I, too, found out I was pregnant last August and had my baby in April.
The good news: the craziness is normal
The bad news: it doesn’t stop with the birth of the baby. I became even crazier, to the point of becoming confrontational during the first few months of having baby. She’s now 5 months and I like to think I’m more logical and reasonable and overall more pleasant to be around for my hubby – he may disagree
I’ve been doing the same things. Today I cried because I had cleaned my kitchen with 409 and thought I had poisened my baby. I’m not due until April 14 and I’m afraid Jake will be at the hospital with out me when it’s time to go because he will be more thankful for the end.
Oh man! I’ve been fretting thinking I’m the only one! I’m usually the laid back wife who is just go with the flow, whatever happens happens, husband is his own person and can make his own decisions, ect. But I’m 32 weeks now and I feel like a different person! The stuff drives me crazy! I feel a legitimate reason why I have to be upset, then not even 10 seconds after my outburst I feel like the WORST WIFE EVER! It’s an ongoing battle. And eating and weight gain worries can suck it. I feel guilty eating anything but healthy food, and drinking anything but water, worry I’m going to get too fat and not be able to lose the weight, then 10 seconds later, I’m bawling because I’m the worst and most selfish mommy ever and I’m starving my child.
Head up! You’ll pull through! I’ll pull through! It’s nice to know I’m not the only crazy preggo out there
thanks for this post I really needed it!
This was so helpful! I thought I was alone with the crazy pregnancy stories but now I realize it’s ok to be crazy! I won’t fight it any longer! Sorry hubz.. Looks like you’re stuck!
Crazy doesn’t even begin to cover it, I have gotten into terrible fights with my husband, I have cried over everything from commercials, Super Bowl, most music, and to my utter shame Go Diego Go. I get really hungry but then I get full really fast. I forget things so fast I usually can’t remember why I get upset about something, and I can hardly figure out what I want to eat even if I am so hungry I am crying about it.
I’m due at the end of April. I do the belly thing as well! I look every chance I get and show him. I tell him “It is definitely not bloat this time” and the next day I tell him “It’s all bloat, when will I start showing!” I think he’s started smoking more, I stress him out so much!