Pregnancy Hormones & Moods

I had a major meltdown in my first trimester.  I literally cried over bread, for hours and then I fell asleep and woke up a few hours later and started crying again (even now, 3 years on, I feel silly but kind of justified as well).

I had major mood swings during my pregnancy. I'd have both happy and 'blue' days. Poor DH was walking on eggshells for a lot of it.

I found taking Flaxseed tables helped regulate my hormones and my blue days weren't so many anymore

I know the feeling!

I found myself swearing (I really am the most rational person) at my boss! I told where to go and walked out of the office and went hom for the day. I was so full of anger that I was kicking things all the way home.

I felt so silly going into work the next day!!!

I might try the Flaxseed suggestion, work and poor DP are suffering big time

Oh Spirals, this all sounds so like me!
The irrational anger. Even though I can be quite short tempered normally, like you, I now feel I'm being irrational WHILE I'm at it. Which actually pisses me off, and then I take it out even more on DH. (Poor poor man)

Then, the crying about nothing.

And at work I'm usually very patient (unlike at home), but I find I just can't take as much at the moment. Which really bothers me because I'm an early childhood teacher. But some of the kids just really get to me at the moment and I can't shake it off as easily as I used too.

By the way, I'm also carrying a girl.

I definately had the anger thing going on, especially while I was still working. Poor DH got it in the neck a lot, I would snap, shout and just say mean things really.

One day we got to work and he sent me an email saying you need to be nicer to me, I cried a lot, and sent him a link on hormones and then after that he didn't take it so personally. I don't think he had any idea how much we can be affected.

Since stopping work, I am a lot calmer, I think for me, too many hormones and too much tiredness is just a recipe for being a grumpy lady.