Ask anymotherand they’ll likely tell you that pregnancy is a beautiful andmagicaltime… but it can be incredibly challenging, too! Your body and hormones are changing, there’s a lot of stress and uncertainty in your life, and mood swings are to be expected. Sometimes, you can burst into tears seemingly out of nowhere.The reasons behind the tears can be quite confusing and amusing, as the women of the r/AskReddit community can attest. In a viral internet thread, theyopened upabout the ‘silliest’ things they cried about when pregnant. It’s a reminder for all moms-to-be that there’s nothing ‘shameful’ about crying and that you’re never alone.Bored Pandagot in touch with redditoru/kismitten, who sparked the entire viral discussion. The author was kind enough to answer our questions and shared why it’s important to talk about questions like this one. You can read our full interview with her below.This post may includeaffiliate links.
Ask anymotherand they’ll likely tell you that pregnancy is a beautiful andmagicaltime… but it can be incredibly challenging, too! Your body and hormones are changing, there’s a lot of stress and uncertainty in your life, and mood swings are to be expected. Sometimes, you can burst into tears seemingly out of nowhere.
The reasons behind the tears can be quite confusing and amusing, as the women of the r/AskReddit community can attest. In a viral internet thread, theyopened upabout the ‘silliest’ things they cried about when pregnant. It’s a reminder for all moms-to-be that there’s nothing ‘shameful’ about crying and that you’re never alone.
Bored Pandagot in touch with redditoru/kismitten, who sparked the entire viral discussion. The author was kind enough to answer our questions and shared why it’s important to talk about questions like this one. You can read our full interview with her below.
This post may includeaffiliate links.
I saw a duck. In my defence, it was a mandarin duck and they’re gorgeous, but I still cried because I saw a duck.
Mood swings, from crying and being irritable to anger and forgetfulness, are completely normal during pregnancy. A random thought or event might make you sob for a few minutes, and then you might get on with your day as though nothing happened. This is nothing unusual. It’s also nothing to be ‘ashamed’ of.According to Psychiatrist Lucy Puryear, MD, at the beginning of your pregnancy, estrogen and progesterone skyrocket.“The changes have big effects on your mood. You can be tearful one minute and happy the next,”she told ‘Parents.’
Mood swings, from crying and being irritable to anger and forgetfulness, are completely normal during pregnancy. A random thought or event might make you sob for a few minutes, and then you might get on with your day as though nothing happened. This is nothing unusual. It’s also nothing to be ‘ashamed’ of.
According to Psychiatrist Lucy Puryear, MD, at the beginning of your pregnancy, estrogen and progesterone skyrocket.
“The changes have big effects on your mood. You can be tearful one minute and happy the next,”she told ‘Parents.’
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I ugly cried while reading a bedtime book to my toddler. The book that made me cry with snot and hyperventilating sobs was “the little engine that could” it prompted my toddler to take the book out of my hands and pat me on the back saying “It oday mommy, it oday”.
New York City-based family therapist Jennifer L. Hartstein, PhD, explains that pregnant women are more reactive to everything. “After your meltdown, you can get freaked out, thinking, ‘What is wrong with me?’ This will get you upset all over again. Just remember that it’s normal, and try to laugh it off and move on,” she explains.During their second trimester, many moms can feel much better and more balanced, both physically and emotionally. Their bodies begin adjusting to the hormonal changes, even as the amounts of estrogen and progesterone continue to increase. However, they might still do impulsive things likesuddenly laughout loud during a serious situation or smile widely for seemingly no reason.
New York City-based family therapist Jennifer L. Hartstein, PhD, explains that pregnant women are more reactive to everything. “After your meltdown, you can get freaked out, thinking, ‘What is wrong with me?’ This will get you upset all over again. Just remember that it’s normal, and try to laugh it off and move on,” she explains.
During their second trimester, many moms can feel much better and more balanced, both physically and emotionally. Their bodies begin adjusting to the hormonal changes, even as the amounts of estrogen and progesterone continue to increase. However, they might still do impulsive things likesuddenly laughout loud during a serious situation or smile widely for seemingly no reason.
I bawled bc I felt guilty that I was feeding my dog the same dog food every day for most of his life.
Couldn’t open the fridge because the door kept hitting my pregnant belly so sat on the kitchen floor and cried for like 15 minutes.
I cried because I forgot to get my husband a father’s day card from our cat.
‘Healthline’ points out that for some moms,hormonal shiftscan continue into their second and third trimesters. That means that some pregnant women have to contend with crying spells for longer.
Although you can’t control hormonal shifts, you can make it easier on yourself to handle them. Something that all pregnant moms should strive to do is to get plenty of sleep, consistently. At least 7 to 9 hours each night should help them handle all the additional stress in their life better.
With my first kid I was young and broke. I was craving jalapeño poppers, and couldn’t afford them, so I was squirreling away change until I could buy a box. Finally got them, cooked them, set the cookie sheet on top of the stove for them to cool off and left the room. My dog got up on his hind legs and ate every single one of them. I just sat on the kitchen floor and cried for half an hour when I saw they were gone.
I saw a squirrel with short tail.I forgot how to use my turn signal.
Watching dogs play competitive frisbee. They jumped so high. They looked so happy. It was so beautiful.
The author of the viral thread opened up to Bored Panda that she had no idea that her post would blow up the way that it did. “I enjoyed reading all the responses. Pregnancy can be a wild ride, and I figured it would be a safe space for women to share their stories. Plus, sharing creates community which creates confidence: life is easier to navigate if you don’t feel like you’re doing it all on your own,“u/kismittensaid.
The redditor felt a lot of empathy for her sister in this situation. “Even if you’re not pregnant, vivid nightmares can really mess with your head. And because I believe laughter is the best medicine,I created and sent her a silly pic,” she told Bored Panda, sharing the meme she made with us. Fortunately, it worked!
I cried every time the fancy feast commercial came on because that cat was just so fluffy.
A video where an otter was playing with a ball, and another otter came and stole it from him. Utterly DEVASTATED.
We asked the author for her advice on what partners can do to support moms during pregnancy. “Embrace the rollercoaster and (more importantly) hitch a ride. Best case scenario? She has some wacky dreams, weird cravings, and serious swelling. Be present and helpful whenever you can. Make her your number 1 priority,” the redditor urged.
I craved oranges with our oldest, but I didn’t like peeling them because it made my hands feel weird/dry. I opened the fridge one day and there were a bunch of peeled oranges in there…My husband stayed up the night before peeling them and when I saw them I cried because it was so sweet, but also because I knew it wasn’t enough to last me all day while he was at work.
3 times:1. Before I knew I was pregnant, I ran over a turtle while driving in the UP. I turned to my husband and said “please tell me that wasn’t a turtle,” and he just made a face, and I cried for more than 30 minutes.2. Right after I found out I was pregnant we went to a MLB game and it happened to be bark at the park night! There were cute puppies for adoption and I said I wanted one and husband said no, so I cried. Then he said we could make it work and get one and I cried AGAIN because I knew it would be irresponsible.3. Right before my son was born I was getting excited about a brownie + ice cream for dessert but my husband had eaten the last brownie, so I cried. He immediately went to the store to buy more but they didn’t have the kind we normally get so he bought every kind of brownie he could find LOL.I’m a lucky gal!
The author joked that if you see your partner crying, you should “back away slowly.” On a more serious note, tears are to be expected. They’re par for course. “Seriously though, expect some tears. And expect the unexpected. My brother-in-law had no idea when he woke up that morning he would find his wife weeping over the idea of birthing a sea urchin. But he didn’t chide her or invalidate her feelings,” she shared with Bored Panda that this is the key to a healthy relationship.
“It doesn’t matter if the reason for the tears is silly or crazy or whatever. Your pregnant partner’s emotions are real to her so treat them with respect!”
Traffic lights changing to red and I wasn’t prepared for the event.
The Rescuers Down Under came on the Disney Channel, so I started sobbing because I wanted to watch it and I was watching it.
What is the silliest thing that made youcrywhen you were pregnant, dear Pandas? How did you support your partners when they were pregnant?
I saw a video online of a UPS truck pulling a FedEx truck out of a snowbank and I thought it was beautiful that they were working together. .
A bird’s nest fell out of a large bush in our yard from the wind. The eggs cracked. I ugly sobbed for way too long thinking of the mother bird coming back and her eggs being gone.
I went to subway and said no, to having it toasted. It was one of the chicken sandwiches. She put the meat on cold. I told her, wait, I still want the meat to be heated up! So she takes the sandwich and puts the whole thing in the microwave. I stepped away from the counter and started bawling. My husband came to ask what was wrong and I sobbed about microwaved bread.
I cried while watching women’s gymnastics in the Olympics, it was so moving to see those women working so hard and making strides in their goals 🤣🤣.
My cat, Ellie.I sobbed one night because she was spayed, and I wondered if she ever wanted children and was upset because we took away that option from her.Hormones are WILD.
I was on a flight reading a NatGeo magazine about dogs, and was overly distraught about how amazing they are, what a good boy my dog is, and how we don’t deserve such pure souls.
The sun was shining and I loved it on my face.
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The shampoo not tasting how it smelt.
Being in the middle of winter in December and not able to swim in a swimming pool. The belly weight hurt my joints and I cried imagining the relief that being in water would give but couldn’t have it…so. 😅.
My husband told me he was going to shave his moustache, which I hated.As soon as he was like “well, today is the day! I’m gonna get rid of it” I got super weepy for the little creepy thing and begged him not to. I felt so guilty for not loving it.
I’m currently 36 weeks pregnant with twins.This morning, my husband asked me if I wanted eggs for breakfast. I said yes, so he made me eggs. By the time they were ready, I didn’t want them. I’ve been crying about this all day.
They stopped selling a certain chocolate bar 10 years ago but i wanted it now.
My wife had a pickle that wasn’t pickle enough. Fun times.
Milk. I literally cried over spilled milk. It was the last of it for the cereal I was craving, and it was 2 am, and I turned around to a noise (dog got up to see what I was doing) with the open container in my hand and dropped it and it spilled and I sobbed giant heaving sobs that my husband got up, put pants on and went to the 7-11 and got milk. At 2 am.
Heard the song “Leader of the Pack” on oldies radio station. Had to pull over because I was sobbing. “He was their LEADER!! And he DIED!!”.
My husband said we shouldn’t adopt a kitten and I then had a full on melt down over the number of homeless cats in our country.
I saw a video of a mother squirrel’s journey through pregnancy and raising her young. At one point she was just laying on her back with a huge belly. I felt such a connection with her. She was so brave.
My sister in law had a good cry over spork pretending to be spoons and forks “because they are f*****g liars” and was not being sarcastic. She was legit mad. It was part of a Taco Bell order.
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I really wanted a frozen pizza during my first pregnancy. I was 14 pounds under my starting weight and couldn’t keep anything down. I was in the tub one night when my husband offered to make me one. He had a particularly long day at work so it was kind of him to offer. As I was sitting there, I realized that he would probably cut it into squares like I normally do. Only the idea of pizza in the shape of a square made me really nauseated. A triangle slice sounded fine though. I didn’t want to seem nit-picky since he was already doing me a favor. He brought it to me in triangles! I cried because I was so grateful that he cut a dang pizza into normal slices instead of squares.
The cows were being rained on. I felt so bad for them thinking they hated it. Someone had to talk me off the ledge telling me they love the rain since they’re standing in 90° heat all day. It was dumb and hilarious.
When I was 36 weeks pregnant during late summer in Phoenix, Arizona I cried thinking about all the pregnant women in the world who didn’t have 24-7 access to ice cream.
I was looking forward to making nice crispy sage and brown butter gnocchi. But the gnocchi wasn’t searing well, so it was going to be soft instead of crispy. I collapsed dramatically onto our stairs and had a full on breakdown.Luckily my husband rescued it and I had my crispy gnocchi in the end!
Nothing.I am 8.5 months and at around month 4 I woke up one morning for work and sat in the bathroom for ten minutes just sobbing. Nothing going on at all. Literally still in pjs. I couldn’t do my make up till it passed lol. I was fully aware of how ridiculous it was but couldn’t stop. Only time that has happened the whole pregnancy.
I have a good one! I was very pregnant, living far from home, my mom sent me a box of my favorite See’s candy (she special ordered my favorite type so it was a whole box of one type). I lived in an area where you can’t get them outside of Christmas. I’m trying to be good so I only eat 1 or 2 a day. I will also note, my husband is a candy fiend and I will hide my candy, because he will eat all of it in one sitting. Well one day I go to eat my candy and the box is gone. I’m really hormonal and craving this stupid candy. I look in the pantry and it’s nowhere to be found. I start yelling at my husband and accuse him of eating my candy. He tells me he hasn’t and I decided he was lying and start to ugly cry because he doesn’t care about me and ate my precious. I had a whole freak out and he is just in disbelief which I took as snark. I’m mad all day, and night, like couldn’t be in the same room mad. The next day I go to grab a big pot to cook myself something and what do you know. There’s my box of candy… I have no recollection of hiding it with the cookware. Yes, I had to go apologize to him for being so awful but not before I treated myself to 2 candies.
No one told me that my in-laws fish was pregnant.
I stood in front of the window of a Japanese restaurant watching people eat. I was crying as if I had just lost someone dear to me, but in reality all I wanted was to eat sashimi. Poor people. I was just standing there, nose almost touching the glass, crying at strangers eating. Ffs.
Elephants have best friends.
My Uber got stuck in traffic. It was like the tenth time that day I had cried. I had just flown home from a work trip, and my ankles were so swollen, and I was so, so, tired. I just desperately wanted to be home. And then we just hit a wall of traffic. So I cried about that (my poor Uber driver!), and then became absolutely inconsolable when I saw the wreck that caused the slowdown. I couldn’t breathe, I was crying so hard. I really felt for that Uber driver. Poor guy just kept handing me tissues and telling me he was going to get me home safe.
The beef chunks in the beef stew that I ordered weren’t mathematically perfect cubes.
I was hungry and my friend made me a pb&j and I couldnt eat it because it smelled like bananas so I cried 🙄.
I cried because I cried. Also, I cried because I wanted fruit but didn’t want to cut it because it irritated my skin.
My husband wouldn’t let me buy cheese cake. It was devastating at the time. Of course we laugh about it now.
There was too much cheese in the middle of my burrito and not enough at the end :( .
The Tim Hortons drive through gave me 2 sour cream glazed donuts when I asked for 2 sour cream glazed timbits..I cried most of the way home lol.
I cried because i ate a whole box of crackers and had none left. later, the same day, i cried because i wanted blueberry pie, and my husband stopped me from driving to the store in a snowstorm at 1045p.m while i was 8 months pregnant…. i had eaten an entire pint of blueberries prior to this meltdown.
I saw an ad about a lost kitten, and cried for 2 hours about how scared it must have been.Never in my life again have I ever experienced the hormones I experienced during my first pregnancy.
The slushie machine at Dairy Queen was busted. AGAIN.
My ramen tasted fishy. I started crying at the mall. 😹😹😹 I was upset because I was so excited that we finally had a fresh ramen place, and I had to throw it away and was sad I couldn’t have sushi either. To be fair I was prescribed 6 estrogen pills a day (infertility treatment) so literally everything made me cry plus a 3 inch long needle in my a*s for the entire pregnancy made me have quite the pity party. 😭 .
My husband said “I didn’t think you’d like a shirt like that” just casually. I started crying “you think I like wearing these clothes?!”.
The pillows on the bed were too flat.
CGI dinosaurs.I have never been one that cries at movies, ever, until I watched Jurassic World when I was about 7 months pregnant. The dinosaurs standing at the end of the pier as the last people left with the coast line being engulfed in smoke had me bawling my eyes out. I am very thankful I was watching this at home on the couch, alone.
I cried with happiness relief tears because the Krispy Kreme had the donuts I wanted in stock.
I was so hungry that I couldn’t move, so I was trapped on my bed ten steps from the kitchen.
That I was eating pancakes with syrup and I hate syrup but I had to have them and I was really upset about it.
I ordered a pizza and when it arrived, it looked like a bite was taken out of it so I rang back and cried down the phone to the poor guy saying I was heavily pregnant and asked for a new pizza. New pizza arrived with no bite mark but still quite upset 😭 still upset about it to this day.
I wept because there was the tiniest bit of moisture on the plate when my husband put my burrito on it, resulting in a slightly moist spot on the tortilla. Went from starving to gagging. He still brings it up 15 years later.
That my Tesco delivery didn’t have the raspberry sorbet which was the only thing I wanted. They brought bloody Christmas cake icecream instead 😭 I hate fruitcake.
When my husband brought home Wendy’s instead of McDonald’s.
Not being able to drink my morning coffee because I’d instantly puke the second it reached my lips. Coffee was the highlight of my morning, until it wasn’t.I still couldn’t drink it up to 6 months after.
Having to pee so frequently. Had to use the restroom 10 minutes after I had already gone and broke down crying in a Mexican restaurant parking lot lol.
A group of old men playing instruments.
Someone took “my” parking spot at Kohl’s.
My husband toasting an everything flavored bagel while I was sleeping. I had forbidden him from making those, but he (sincerely) thought since I was already asleep it would be ok. The smell woke me, and I instantly threw up. I had been struggling with insomnia, and was exhausted from the constant puking. I was so mad at him I sobbed/yelled for half an hour.
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