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The sound of a baby crying.

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Magnificentmug12 · 20/04/2021 20:23

I don’t want to ask my friends in real life as I’ll probably get funny looks so thought I’d ask here.

Does the sound of a baby crying make you feel a certain way? And I mean baby, who can’t walk or talk yet.
If it does make you feel a certain way, what are those feelings?

Also, do you respond the same to the sound of someone else’s baby crying? Either a neighbours baby or one in the supermarket?

The sound of a baby crying does something to me specifically and makes me feel a certain way and I’m just wondering if others are the same or feel something different.

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Chihuahuacat · 20/04/2021 20:27

It used to be I couldnt stand it. Just grated on me and made me annoyed.

I’ve become broodier recently and the annoyance has toned down - more to an ‘aw hope they’re ok’.

SeriouslyAreYouSerious · 20/04/2021 20:28

It makes me fee thank god it's not mine...

SeriouslyAreYouSerious · 20/04/2021 20:28

*feel

GillBungalow · 20/04/2021 20:31

When I hear it on TV I find it distracting and a bit distressing- though if it's a fictional program I think it's usually designed to be exactly that.

Funnily enough, in RL it doesn't bother me at all. The only children's noise that ever really got to me was that of my own DC, anyone else's I tend to filter out.

OhToBeASeahorse · 20/04/2021 20:31

The sound of my own makes me feel anxious and sad and a huge desire to protect them and make it better. I get physically agitated by it.

The sound of others I dont feel as much but i do get an urge to say 'please comfort them!' Which is ridiculous I know

Ohnoohnoohnonononono · 20/04/2021 20:35

Before I had my own, I found it quite annoying but since I’ve had my own baby I now find it incredibly sad and it makes me want to help.

Warrickdaviesasplates · 20/04/2021 20:39

Before my milk dried up it made my boobs leak. Even before I'd consciously registered the noise I'd feel the let down.

Now I don't really notice it at all, my own babies cries cuts straight through me and I can't even hear anything else until they stop. But someone else's baby doesn't sound as loud to me and isn't distracting at all.

SmileyClare · 20/04/2021 20:40

As part of SAS training, they play the noise of a baby crying to recruits through headphones. It's a form of torture.

That said, if I hear a baby crying in a waiting room, supermarket or something I'm not too phased. It doesn't make me feel anxious or on edge. It's what babies do after all.

LunaLula83 · 20/04/2021 20:42

Since ive had children i find it grates and gets on my nerves. Why!!!

SomewhereInAnotherLife · 20/04/2021 20:43

I hate it. It makes me feel highly anxious and on edge.

Didn’t phase me at all before I had children though.

SmileyClare · 20/04/2021 20:44

The sound of a baby crying does something to me specifically Can you describe your reaction? Do you think it could be a form of ptsd or triggers memories/emotions?

Malin52 · 20/04/2021 20:48

I can't stand it. It's the most obnoxious noise to me. Like nails down a blackboard. I was having a drink with a friend and a baby was incessantly crying on the other side of the street and my face was clearly showing my displeasure. She thought it was interesting how the sound literally goes through me as a child free person and she (2 kids) said she hardly noticed it.

Thesearmsofmine · 20/04/2021 20:55

It makes me look around for said baby and check all is ok(not in a weird way just that it is with someone and not injured or something). I find it hard to tune out.

mrshonda · 20/04/2021 20:55

Interestingly, domestic cats have adapted so that the pitch of their meowing is the same as that of a human baby's crying - it gets the attention of human beings.

Notashandyta · 20/04/2021 20:57

Do you suffer with bad pms or pmdd?

FluffMagnet · 20/04/2021 21:03

So glad to read these answers, as I was always led to believe I was really abnormal. Before my DD it used to make me FURIOUS and so agitated - I just couldn't ignore it. Commuting was the worst as I couldn't escape the sound, and it would put me in such a bad mood. I don't seem to notice it so much anymore. I was v conscious of DD crying in public though, in case it was making anyone nearby as upset as the sound used to make me feel.

sageflower · 20/04/2021 21:04

Sound of a newborn is beautiful
I don't mind hearing a baby cry
A toddler tantrum I can't stand.

EnglishRain · 20/04/2021 21:10

Pulls at my heart strings. Worse when it is DD!

DenisetheMenace · 20/04/2021 21:13

Can’t bear it. Tugs at my heartstrings (no such thing, I know, but it does).
The newborn mewing is torturous.

Ours are 18 and 26, still gets me every time though. Have to tell myself not to interfere in supermarkets 😂

Justmuddlingalong · 20/04/2021 21:14

It makes my boobs feel like my milk's letting down. My youngest is 24 and has their own child.

Whatelsecouldibecalled · 20/04/2021 21:16

My own baby crying actually makes me feel something very physical but I can’t tell you want. I say to my husband it makes my insides hurt. Very strange feeling. I can see why it’s used as a form of torture

Mum2jenny · 20/04/2021 21:17

Just want to cuddle it, I love little babies!

Aliceandthemarchhare · 20/04/2021 21:18

It really upsets me.

Mum2jenny · 20/04/2021 21:19

I do prefer babies to youngsters though.