Hormones/Pregnancy rage

Does anyone else get irritated when they are venting about pregnancy symptoms and their friend/family member says things like “but this pregnancy is going so well!” 🙄

I’m high risk due to various factors, the main concern being gestational hypertension and past pregnancies with preeclampsia. My blood pressure has been elevated, but not like when I had preeclampsia, and I’m on medication for it, which they up my dose every appointment. I’m ~30 weeks, and I’ve had morning sickness and nausea since the beginning, I’m dealing with a lot of back pain and round ligament pain, headaches, indigestion, shortness of breath…all the fun 3rd trimester stuff, but worse than I had it with past pregnancies. Basically, I’m miserable right now, and if I say anything about it I just get told how well this pregnancy is going.

I feel like I’m not allowed to vent to the same friends who constantly vent to me. I’d understand if I was venting about it constantly, but maybe every other week or so I’ll say something about how I can’t wait until they’re born, or how I’m starting to feel useless and miserable, and they either respond with how well it’s going, or change to topic to how they feel sick/tired/stressed etc. Normally it doesn’t bother me when they turn me venting into them venting about their own problems, but lately it’s just getting on my nerves.

I also seem to not be able to handle stress at all right now, if something is stressing me out or giving me anxiety I lash out (not on friends or the kids, my poor partner gets to deal with that😭.) I don’t want to be like that, but it’s like the rage pops up so fast that it’s out of my mouth before I even have a chance to calm myself down. I hate it, and I don’t know what to do about it. I didn’t deal with this with my past pregnancies. He’s understanding, but I hate it and I feel so bad 😭

I feel like I’m completely ridiculous lately and like I’m losing my mind 🫣

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