Last night I was trying to decide if Midol makes me cry, or if perhaps I’ve just gone crazy. I read the box and there were no side effects of emotional lows, so I decided it must just be me. After the fourth tearful outburst in less than 3 hours, I gave up and went to bed where I read about quantum physics for a brief period and then cried because those pesky electrons are nowhere and everywhere, and can you just imagine? I couldn’t put my head around it. So then I cried some more.
Was woken by a text message a little after midnight… both of our phones started beeping at the same time. I blindly reached for mine, squinting to adjust my vision to the bright screen.
Little Simone arrived at 11:01 pm last night! I am an aunt!
And just like that: No more tears. Well, I have been fully conscious for less than 30 minutes, so that might be jumping the gun a bit.
Awwwww!!!! Congratulations to your brother and SIL!!!
I was going to blog about something similar last week (the crying stuff). It’s plagued me too since going off the BCP. There are one or two days a month when I am flat out depressed. I feel hopeless. I don’t want to talk to anyone. I cry a lot…and usually for no reason at all. And then all of the sudden I’m fine again. It’s awful, but I really don’t want to go back on BCPs. So, I put up with it…but every month it still comes as a shock to me.
Congratulations on becoming an aunt! What exciting news!
mazel tov!!!
Congratulations!
I was having awful crying fits until I started antidepressants. Now I seem to have more control.
I don’t think crying fits are necessarily bad — it is one of the body’s ways of relieving stress, after all. For me it was becoming a pretty pervasive problem, though.