Do you get stressed out easily, since you became pregnant?

[Odonata]

I am finding it much harder to deal with every day little issues. It's like little annoyances are driving me mad and I can't let anything go.

[purrbox]

I've always been a worrier, but I definitely feel more stressed since becoming pregnant. It's getting worse the farther along I am. Pretty soon my husband's going to be shooting me with tranquilizers just to calm my ass down.

[zarapipe]

It comes in waves It's going to get worse though. I'm sure I'll be a raging bitch this summer.

[blushing]

Stressed no, more sensitive yes. I have had 2 weeks of where I have had to stop watching Criminal Minds. I just couldn't watch. Before pg I loved Criminal Minds.

[rbp]

I've always been an anxious person, but my fuse is a lot shorter since being pregnant. I am really stressed about getting our nursery set up, and H keeps bringing up new house projects he wants to do, like replacing all the carpet.  :? All of a sudden our freezer isn't staying cold enough, and it's about to put me over the edge. 

[hokiegirl82]

I've always been an anxious person and pregnancy has brought out the worst in me in the way of not handling little things well. I seem to cry about everything easily and can't logically solve problems.

[mrspost08]

I agree it comes in waves. Sometimes I can brush it off and other times I can't. This week I have too much drama at work & personal. It is just piling up and I can't deal with it.

[anna7602]

Yes. It depends on the situation, but, for example, I have way, way lower tolerance for some of DD's antics and when she has friends over, OMG, I can't deal with multiple kids running around my house, even if their parents are also over. 

[magdala]

Yes. This hormonal roller coaster is a wild ride.

[miss.colorado]

Stress, not really. I seem to be more calm-ish....

However, I'm emotional.

Example 1: I was watching a Dateline about a man who lost his wife and then bought a race horse with a gimpy leg. I was sobbing.

Example 2: I was looking at funny pins on pinterest last night, laughing out loud. I was laughing so hard I was crying, then my DH told me I was laughing so much the couch was shaking. He said it as if he was annoyed. My laugh/crying turned into sobs because I thought he was being mean. I put myself to bed at 8pm.

I am afraid for what's to come.

[jewel]

Not really stressed, but my patience is running thin, especially with my husband. I feel like if I say something, it needs to happen immediately. Like if I'm tired of wandering around Costco, or I need to use the restroom, and my husband stalls, I want to yell - DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THAT I'M PREGNANT!?!?? I cant wait just 3 more minutes for you to finishing looking at cameras we won't buy today anyway. Needing to pee or rest or whatever suddenly feels very urgent and he is already such a dawdler.

[vaportrail]

Sometimes I'm ok. Sometimes I cry because there's a lemon wedge on my pad thai and I did not want a lemon wedge.

[narockshard]

Not so much stressed in general, but I have become super clingy/worried about my husband all the time. So if I don't hear from him for a while my mind starts to race with the worse possible scenarios and I totally work myself into a frenzy. Poor guy having to deal with it!

[bowies]

In first tri I developed a fear of parking lots. Nothing that kept me at home or anything, but I just KNEW I was going to get hit by someone not paying attention. The drivers around here are some of the worst I've ever seen, so this wasn't an entirely irrational fear.

Then in second tri I'd have sleepless nights because I couldn't keep my thoughts from racing over all the things we had to accomplish and all the money we needed to save before the baby arrived. Making lists helped somewhat.

Now I seem to have reached a point where I'm more chill. Even my crazy-ass client hasn't been able to rattle me lately, and she has certainly tried.

[narockshard]

May 9, 2014 10:10:34 GMT -5 fussybutt14 said:

May 8, 2014 19:29:43 GMT -5 narockshard said:

Not so much stressed in general, but I have become super clingy/worried about my husband all the time. So if I don't hear from him for a while my mind starts to race with the worse possible scenarios and I totally work myself into a frenzy. Poor guy having to deal with it!

I've been like this too- we needed to go grocery shopping yesterday, and had nothing for dinner. H offered to go to the store for me and get whatever I wanted, and I just burst into tears, saying I just want to spend time with you! He was like "you're hormones are really getting crazy huh?" and I knew it was crazy, so I agreed. He asked if I wanted to go with him, but also wanted me to stay home and rest. He really does want to best for me, and has been trying so hard, I feel bad. He is really understanding though!

I'm glad I'm not alone!

[blushing]

May 8, 2014 19:29:43 GMT -5 narockshard said:

Not so much stressed in general, but I have become super clingy/worried about my husband all the time. So if I don't hear from him for a while my mind starts to race with the worse possible scenarios and I totally work myself into a frenzy. Poor guy having to deal with it!

In my first pregnancy I was so convinced that my husband was either cheating on me or that something was wrong that I caught a bus to his work and spied on him. I look back now and realise it was completely mad, but at the time I was convinced, lol.

[earlgreyhot]

Not really stressed, but certainly more grumpy.

[chickadee77]

Mine, too, comes in waves. Poor H doesn't know from one day to the next if something will piss me off or not. I try to rein it in, but, well. I was better in second tri, then it ramped up again at the beginning of third, and I *think* I'm calming down again, a bit.

[nessness]

May 8, 2014 17:27:49 GMT -5 jewel said:

Not really stressed, but my patience is running thin, especially with my husband. I feel like if I say something, it needs to happen immediately. Like if I'm tired of wandering around Costco, or I need to use the restroom, and my husband stalls, I want to yell - DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THAT I'M PREGNANT!?!?? I cant wait just 3 more minutes for you to finishing looking at cameras we won't buy today anyway. Needing to pee or rest or whatever suddenly feels very urgent and he is already such a dawdler.

This is totally me. I'll be totally fine shopping or whatever and all of a sudden I decide I just can't be in that store for one more minute.

[MrsDarcy]

Sometimes. But, yes, stressed for Mother's Day lunch with H's family tomorrow. Completely dreading it. I'm going to have to be fake happy and smiley the whole time with my high voice and I'm going to be so irritated inside. The whole of it all (I'll spare you the details, and I know it's likely just my hormones that is making this harder than it needs to be, what it's what I'm feeling so I'm owning it) came to a head tonight and made me almost cry. Ugh. I'm so not looking forward to this.

[cheeseandcrackers]

Yes, I felt more stressed, but I think that's the combination of my job and exhaustion.