Am I insane?

[Subtext]

I suspect hormones might be at play here...

My DD is just 5 months old. She's been peacefully asleep for a couple of hours now.

Our neighbours' baby has been screaming on and off this evening. Every time I hear it crying I want to run over there and give it a cuddle (even though I'm sure it's being comforted already by its parents). It actually makes me feel teary.

Am I mad?

No, you are being hormonal. I have felt exactly the same.

Someone said to me once that she used to let down in the supermarket when somebody else's baby cried (she was, obviously, still breastfeeding her own kids at the time).

You'll get over it. I am well past the baby stage and when I hear babies crying now I just enjoy knowing that it won't be me changing the nappy. Though I do feel sorry for the parents if the yelling keeps going. And for the baby.

I can't bear it. I need to know everyone's okay! Baby and parents!

The crying's stopped again now. I know I'll be listening out for it tonight.

I remember being like this it was all I could do not to take crying babies out of trolley's in supermarkets, I used to feel like screaming PICK THEM UP!!

It wasn't a judgement thing either it was a genuine distressed, physical reaction to the crying especially if I didn't have ds with me at the time.

My PFB is 20 months next week, on Friday I was trying to work from a coffee shop and couldn't relax for a second because a little girl same age was upset. Totally get this. Yanbu x

I used to get the urge to breastfeed crying babies (I never actually followed through with this urge) when a baby cried my boobs would start to produce milk.

Ds hardly ever cried but we were in hospital for a week with him when he was about 6 weeks, there was lots of crying babies :( My boobs were going crazy!

I hope the next door baby settles soon.

I didn't realise this was a 'thing' until I had DD.

I also saw a mother duck and her ducklings the other day. She looked so pleased with herself and proud of them all and I thought 'I know exactly how she feels' and then started crying. In public. Like a true winner.

My youngest is 2.8 yo and I still feel like this and can't imagine stopping. Can't be hormones- is now hardwired In to my brain.

My youngest is 6.5yo & I couldn't bear that either, OP.

Ha! Subtext Brilliant.

I cry ALL the time at anything involving children/babies since having DS.Sappy adverts, films, crying babies. I was never this sentimental before! I always get let down in the supermarket and then I get a bit teary...absolute weirdo!

I saw a couple with a baby in '24 hours in A & E' with a baby in a car seat, baby was crying and they were looking at it, obviously concerned, but I felt like screaming at them 'JUST PICK HER UP!'. It's such an instinctive thing.

Ahem... I cried when they brought the tetley characters back. Face palm. My youngest are nine.... We're knackered aren't we?