he thinks i am depressed as i struggle to get moving in the mornings i dont get dressed untill lunch time i cry all the time and we argue all he time and i hit out in anger he said i am totally different now i am preg.

do you think this is signs or just hormones?

Maybe if he stood up for you you would act differently?? Im 30+2 and sometimes i cant be bothered to dressed either.

Cheer up hun x x x

How far on are you hun? and how long have you been feeling like this? It could well be hormones, I got a little like that with my first and have already had temper tantrums already with this one.

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It could well be hormones as i have days like this but it could also be pre-natal depression in which case you must speak to your midwife or GP as its a very real condition and nothing to be ashamed of xx

i am 31+3 and i must have been like this since about 20 weeks i have an gp today but dont want to look silly

You wont look silly thats what there are there for x x

awwww hon
I have antenatal depression and its taken a LONG time to except.
I could eat for crying, was the worst mummy to my boys etc.
It was when i attempted something awful that i had to talk to someone. I was sat with hubby and my insides were screaming help but the words wouldnt come out. Eventually i wrote him a letter and put it in a card that say "love is like an ice lolly, messy but always worth it)
He didnt say anything after hed read it but hes a man a few words with stuff like this, but he came down and gae me a massive hugg and then we chatted via text (just less arkward) the next day.......
Anyway i went to the drs, was rly scared they'd take the kids off me but she was fab. My MW wasnt understanding at all when i had tried to talk to her and was just "oh take these pills you will be fine" but the dr was gr8. She rly sypathiese with me and yeh i had to take pills which i didnt want to but ive now started councilling and (barr today cos boys are RLY bn a nightmare!!!! lol) im a much better mummy and wife and enjoying the simplist of things again.

Sorry ive rambled.
Jenn
35+5

It is really hard to distinguish between antenatal depression and hormones because they are inter-related. But basically if you are feeling really low and miserable and you are pregnant then you definetly should talk to your GP. It isn't you being silly at all, it is a very real problem, it isn't your fault and there is support and ways in which they should be able to help you.

Nothing you can say about this to your GP would be silly at all. If you have a nice GP then talk to them. If you have a nice midwife, talk to her. But do mention it to someone.

It is so hard when you are feeling depressed about things. I suffered from some exceptionally bad PMT for a while (hormonal because of the pill I was taking!), and I would take real issues in my relationship and blow them into something so major and dreadful I felt like the relationship should end. It was so hard because I was focusing on things that were issues, but in such a way that was so dispropotionate it made something small but real into something enormous and distructive when it should never have been.

What I'm trying to say in a long rambling way is that hormones can have a really distructive effect. It isn't your fault. It doesn't mean the issues are necessarily real, and there are people who can help. So please please talk to someone.

Sending massive hugs. x

i suffered antenatel depression with my first little boy really bad i was written off from work from 17 weeks all the way to the end it was work stress that triiggered it off and the fact that i have been on anti depressants since my dad died when i was 12 and i stopped taking them suddenly when i found out i was pregnant.
Prozac are safe to take during pregnancy so i am on them still the other day i forgot to take them for about 5 days running and i noticed. I felt like i couldnt be bothered to do anything i had no motivation for ANYTHING.
I have made sure now that i take them everyday now and im not ashamed to say that i have to take them. My husband did not understand at first some men have a real pride issue about it but gradually he has realised that its a chemical my body is missing and its no disrespect to him he isnt making me unhappy i would be like it no matter what.

Please make sure you see someone as it may progress into postnatal depression after the baby is born i will again not be breastfeeding as i will keep on my prozac but i believe its best for both my children to be there for them in a sane state instead of breatfeeding and then having a nervous breakdown and ending up in the psych hospital.

If you need to ask anything dont hesitate to ask


lelly
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