Mother’s intuition

[Darkmodelight]

I’ve been listening to a podcast and they’ve been talking about how mothers can always tell if something is wrong and almost have a sixth sense about things being wrong with their children.

Now, i would consider myself a good parent and have a good relationship with my children but I don’t think i have any kind of any ESP when it comes to them.

just wondering if you do and if I’m weird for not having it.

This is only the case when you have 1-2 kids and / or live in food / fiancial security. The more kids you have, the poorer you are, the less intuition you’ll have.

I have this with my DM. It happens frequently for little things but there have been 2 occasions where something bad has happened to her, both times I just knew something had happened, I felt sick and my heart sank when I thought of her. I ignored it both times, thinking I was being silly, if I was to have that feeling again I wouldn’t ignore it.
It wasn’t anything I could have known either, not like she was diagnosed with something and I knew that she was going to the hospital that day, just horrible things happening out the blue that I could never have predicted.

I don’t have it with my son so far, but he hasn’t been in any situation where I would feel it yet. I’m sure it’s all just a coincidence, but I’ve heard lots of people experience it.

My mum knew I was pregnant before I told her... but so did my threading lady 😂

Your OH was a good doctor I'm sure. I've had a few not believe me lately and it's a shocking thing to come up against. Also if they don't believe you how are they going to diagnose and treat correctly? It was the older more experienced doctors who believed me and younger ones who didn't.

25 years working in MH. There's a lot of dark out there.

How funny!

I always seem to wake up up a minute or two before they do - like a sixth sense they are about to wake up in the middle of the night

For those asking podcast is a true crime one called Mordid, so not really what you’d call a reliable source but they do go on about it a lot.

I think when you have babies your sleep is a lot lighter as you always have a sense in your mind that they might wake up and are likely to wake more frequently yourself/be more sensitive to noises. Not a sixth sense.

I haven’t experienced anything with my children. However I always remember being 15 and on holiday with my parents, my sister was 22 and pregnant and not on the holiday. My Mum half way through a meal said “I have to ring your sister” she left the table and rang my sister; apparently my sister had been involved in a car accident and had literally just walked in the door from being at the hospital. Fortunately her and baby were fine, he’s a strapping 23year old now.
But very weird. My mum said she just had a feeling overcome her that she needed to speak to my sister.

Not sure if this counts as intuition per se, but I cosleep with my DS and invariably wake up the second before he farts.

Not specifically my children but if something really bad happens in my circle, then usually the day or night before I have had visions of things happening. Not the exact things that have happened but I syart to panic about something terrible going wrong and then it happens.

I could always tell if something wasn't right, would take me a while to get it out of them but I was usually right in my intuition. Maybe you've not had anything big enough for you to pick up on. I'm talking problems at school, girlfriend issues etc, not small things. I also had a terrible feeling the day my eldest had an accident, my feelings were for the youngest but it turned it out it was the other one but I knew something wasn't right.

I always know when something's up with my dd. I can read her mannerisms and face. My ds has an ill 'smell' as well. He's also very readable so I guess it has to do with the kid.

My dd had a bad accident abroad a few years ago.
I knew something had happened to her without any information or explanation at the same time the accident happened.
I was informed later after she had been treated and was able to talk to me but it was the strangest experience of my life !

Definitely not ESP, but I’d say I know their ‘ill’ faces, and I tend to notice any sheepishness, low moods and general differences in their personality before my husband does. But not an intuition, I just know them as people and worry more than he does. I was the same with my mum I suppose.

They’re early to late teens, so I definitely get it wrong sometimes too 🤣

I used to work as a GP receptionist, and can confirm that "mothers intuition" is almost always wrong - not always, but mostly. It is just people only really remember the 10% or so of times they were right and forget the rest.

my daughter has just had her first baby.... and i suffered all of her pregnancy symptoms with her!

i get a sixth sense something is wrong with either of my children.. its probably down to communication, we have such a close bond i can even tell when they text in anger.

some people find it spooky... its just how we are

I don't think it's so much a case of having ESP where your child is concerned,it's just knowing what is and isn't normal for your particular child. An example of this happened to me when my DD (now 40 years of age) was 4 months old. Overnight,she went from being a bright,alert,very hungry baby,to being lethargic,quiet and uninterested in food. I KNEW there was something not right,but my stupid GP at the time, brushed aside my concerns and said she was teething. Which I knew it wasn't. By the evening I was so concerned,I took her to A and E,where she was diagnosed with pneumonia and ended up spending a week in hospital.

I have always had a bit of a sixth sense with one of mine in particular out of the three. He's an adult now, but according to him I always seem to call him at the right time, when there's something going on in his life that he needs to talk to me about. So that's coming from his point of view, not from mine. I'm close to all my boys, but personality wise this one and I are most alike and understand each other best.

Yes, my daughter had epileptic seizures as a young child, I was cabin crew at the time.
I would always turn my phone off before check in and put it away until landing back to the UK.
One particular day I had a sense that I needed to check on her so switched the phone back on to call nursery and I had a voicemail saying she wasn't herself, I told the captain, a standby crew replaced me and I drove to the nursery and she had a seizure about an hour after us getting home.
I've always been able to tell hours before she fits and have never not been there!