Does anyone else ever get sick of the sound of crying?

[StopScreamingPlease]

Not looking for a telling off please.

My one year old has cried, moaned, whinged and screamed his way through the last few days (and nights!). I think it’s teeth as he’s dribbling and doesn’t usually. He’s obviously had calpol and stories and lots of cuddling and sympathies, but I’m so so so fed up of the sound of virtually constant crying. My H has just finished work and I’ve gone into another room to try and get a ten minute break from it. I can still hear it but it’s not so loud. We’ve had days like this before where I’ve felt absolutely desolate from lack of sleep and crying, and other days where I’ve felt what I assume is genuine rage. Today I feel like I’ve been assaulted by noise.

Does anyone else ever feel like this? Any wise words?

Just FYI, I work part time which takes the edge off, just to preempt that as a suggestion.

It's a long time since mine were that age but Neurofen is much better than calpol for stopping the pain and hopefully that will help with the crying.

Their crying is an evolutionary mechanism designed to get to you, specifically, so you do something to stop the crying. There's nothing more irritating. And it usually doesn't have the same effect on dads 🤔

It's beyond irritating and being tired really doesn't help.

I agree with pp that nurofen is better for teething. There's teething powders as well but they didn't seem to work on my DC.

I used to put on some other form of noise, or noise cancelling headphones, while I cuddled them, and DH used to take shifts. During the day, I would do anything to distract - swimming, playgroup, the park, a trundle around B&Q to look at the lighting section...

You have my sympathy, that part of parenting sucks, but it will pass! In the meantime, have a 🍷

Thank you both! He’s had nurofen too, and I agree it’s more effective. That’s interesting, DH and I both agree that he finds the crying less annoying than me. He was sick twice this evening which is a bit gutting as I now won’t be going to work tomorrow. That partly explains the excessive crying. Anyway, thank you for the solidarity.