My first mental meltdown...

**Telephus44** · 08-17-2006, 08:36 PM

As DH will attest to, I am not particularly moody in general, or upset easily. However, as nearly 7 months pregnant - on Tuesday I was reading an article online that said something about classes - I looked at the clock and it was 7:37pm and I said "Our first childbirth classes were tonight! We missed it!" and just broke down into tears, thinking that I was going to be a horrible mother because I couldn't even remember to go to the childbirth classes. DH did a good job of telling me it was ok, driving to where I work to get the paperwork to find the directions, and then driving over so we caught the second half of the classes.

I just found it really overwhelming - normally I'm pretty balanced and something like that would not have thrown me out of whack like that. I sure hope it gets better after the baby comes!

**kabin63** · 08-17-2006, 08:48 PM

Ahh, it's ok. I had most of my melt downs after my DD was born, but you know, hormones are weird little guys. I think you've done great to make it this far and not have a melt down. Come to think of it, my DSS was always telling me I was acting like a #$^%@ when I was pregnant, but then he was 15 too...LOL You'll be ok.

**fernykins** · 08-17-2006, 08:49 PM

Ahhhhhhhh Sara towards the end of my preg. I would get emotional over things.......... Everything will be fine........((big hugs))
Fern

**Goodwin17** · 08-17-2006, 10:59 PM

At least you know you're calm most of the time, and that it's not a daily thing. You'll do great. I can't even blame my moodiness on pregnancy!

**YankeeMom** · 08-17-2006, 11:15 PM

I affectionately refer to that as "placenta brain"

**chewawalove** · 08-18-2006, 09:23 AM

I agree with Heather. These babies start sucking away our brain cells when we are pregnant and moreso when they are born.

It's a given.

I tell my teenagers when they look at me like I'm crazy or stupid...."Hey, you did this to me !....I was fine until I got pregnant !" LOL!!

**AmyMCGS** · 08-18-2006, 10:24 AM

I burst into tears easily during both of my pregnancies and for a short time after the babies were born. DH teases me about it now, because I'm not at all like that normally... but he wouldn't have dared toi tease me about it at the time.

Hormones just take over for a while... it will pass eventually, hang in there!

**Buckeye5** · 08-18-2006, 10:51 AM

You are going to be okay. Just have lots of tissues on stand by. Besides the hormonal effects on you, when you are pregnant there are lots of things going on mentally too. Your health, the babies health, the anticipation of labor and delivery, financial concerns, your lifestyle changes, lots of things. It will be okay!!!

**santoria** · 08-18-2006, 12:03 PM

oh boy. been there!

this time was horrible for me for meltdowns. felt like every day! have lots of tissues, and lots of comfort things around you.

I am glad your dh was supportive.

**frugalfarmwife** · 08-18-2006, 01:59 PM

:surprise: SHHHHH, don't let my hubby know that women can normally be level headed, he thinks that meltdowns are a normal female thing!:surprise: And I've never even been pregnant!

You're doing great though, I've been there with friends, sometimes the littlest things just do you in.

kj

**ktsmama** · 08-18-2006, 02:24 PM

OH, the joys of pregnancy.

**baxjul** · 08-18-2006, 02:39 PM

It'll be okay! I skipped my childbirth classes, and then had to admit it when I went into labor and they told me to do my breathing! I didn't know how!

**AmyBoz** · 08-18-2006, 02:45 PM

It'll pass...trust me!

**miss_thrifty** · 08-18-2006, 02:50 PM

Oh its alright!!! We all have been there. 2 times for me, and I was withcy alot for the second one, very bad pregancy. at least your husbnas didnt say to u" Why dont u be like other women, they dont complain as much.?" I told him, they dont have hubbys like u, with no compassion , lol
U gotta a great hubby. And coming at the end, i did the nesting thing. Trying to clean all thew time and make everything perfect.

**Kimberlina** · 08-18-2006, 06:56 PM

Please forgive me if I LOL, because a very similar thing happened to me, and my reaction was pretty much the same. I'm normally on a pretty even keel emotion-wise, and I just started bawling and felt like an idiot because I did it at work.

Driving home the night before our first class, a huge chunk of ice flew off a tractor-trailer and smashed my windshield to bits. So DH took me to work the next day and was going to come get me to go to the classes that night. He called and told me his car was broken-down and he was getting a friend of ours (who lives near us) to drive the 15 miles to where I worked and pick me up to take me home. No class. (My work and the class are 45 minutes from our homes, and she just happened to work with DH at the time, which was in-between our town and where I work.) I was REALLY upset.

Now that DD is three, I'm like, "why did I ever get so upset over it?" which, I am sure, is where you will be soon, but when it actually happens, it is just devastating.