to not be able to handle upsetting things since I've had DS?

[CheerfulYank]

Ever since I became a mother I just can't handle violent or depressing things like I used to. DH got the first season of Dexter on DVD and we watched the first 2 episodes last night. I thought it was a really good show, and I have a monster crush on Michael C. Hall, well-written and interesting and all that.

I know I'm not going to be able to watch anymore of it.

I think I have to believe that the world I'm raising my son in has a majority of basically good people in it, and I can't watch or read anything that challenges that. Anyone else, or am I just a big baby?

I am the same, I do not read upsetting news stories any more. needed.

YANBU For about 5 years after I had dd I could not wantch anything nasty or anything to do with children in hospital. I still find it difficult to watch real life hospital things, but I am fine now with dramas

I can't do it either. A friend brought some DVDs around the other day to watch and I had to filter out any that were gritty or sad.

Quite normal I think.

I was quite traumatised just after my dc2 was born when I accidentally saw a trailer on tv for a film about WWII where children were evacuated away from their parents.

I also had several severely soppy moments -once when we went for a walk I saw a cow giving birth to a calf and stood there crying at the edge of the field. I refused to leave until the calf had stood up and I was sure it was ok.

I'm not quite so wobbly now, but it's been almost 9 years.

i'm ok with sad or grim but dp accuses me of having had a sense of humour bypass since having the kids as i no longer find 'bad taste' comedy funny... family guy, south park, american dad, most amercian comedy movies.

i reckon it's more that now that i have kids i no longer feel the need to display the mentality of a child myself by laughing as fart and puke jokes and thinking bigoted shite is funny if it's dressed up as a satirical joke

I think part of it too is that I was looking up some things about the show (Dexter) today, and I saw that a 17 year old boy had done something quite horrible b/c he "identified with the character". From what I've read he had a fairly normal home life, no severe trauma or anything like that It's so frightening that sometimes maybe people are just wired to be ill that way.

Oh and I agree Tulips...Family Guy used to be hilarious in my book and now I think it's stupid.

But bet you don't bat an eyelid at gruesome details of childbirth....

Nope, and I tell a lot of stories that start, "Well, when the dr. was stitching me up, you know, down there...

I'm exactly the same, I watched a film at the weekend that wasn't particularly gruesome - just a cop film but I didn't enjoy it at all. I'm reduced to watching Desperate Housewives and Daily Cooks Challenge. I just can't take violence/gore or anything remotely 'bad' on tv! Who have I become?!
(it's true about childbirth though, I watch One Born every Minute avidly!)

I'm the same, I watched an episode of Criminal Minds last week that really upset me, and I've watched the previous series with no problems.

About 3 weeks after I had DD I was reading a history book which referenced an incident in the middle ages where a family were thrown in prison and the baby dumped by the side of the road and I properly sobbed for ages. Both DH and DD were looking at me like I was insane but I just was looking at DD imagining it happening to her and completely fell apart.

I think I will now only watch programmes about happy kittens.

Yes, I think DS and I will stick to classic Disney films...Jungle Book, anyone?

Glad to know it's not just me!

Oh, and lucky, that's horribly sad! I would tear up a bit myself if I weren't at work. Poor little baby! Cruel, cruel middle ages.

I can barely watch the news these days. And I've been known to cry at Coronation Street -other half keeps gently pointing out "it's not a true story..."

yes! so glad its isnt just me! and i used to be really 'ard. like, never ever cried at movies no matter how heartstringy or whatever. but now am totally dependent on desperate housewives and its ilk because other stuff makes me cry (pathetic emoticon)

YABU Dexter is awesome.

Hey other Yank!

So weird you mentioned Dexter, I just watched the last episode of the latest season and actually felt physically sick at the very end. It disturbed me to the point I couldn't sleep and couldn't get it out of my head, I think because it involved a baby (my DS is 6 months).

I've had trouble with intrusive thoughts about very bad things happening to DS before, and now all this stuff with Jamie Bulgar's killer being on the news makes me worry that will start happening again. His poor mum.

I know, mayor, and so is the Simpsons. Nice name!

I think it's a great show, I just won't be able to watch it right now for my own stability.

I get really upset when I see stories about children or babies being badly treated. I can hardly bare to read about cases like Baby P etc.
I feel like I should have a career change for social services - because I would actually care - but DH says I wouldn't last 10 seconds...

I can't watch CSI any more, which used to be my 'evening trashy telly'. And adverts, particularly the charity ones (there was a horrible NSPCC one shortly after A was born).

So I stick to the BBC and recorded stuff. There's a reason daytime telly is all house porn and antiques - it's guaranteed non-upsetting for new mums and the offspring!

Thank God. I thought I was going mad. Have 2 children, last one 3 months old and I could not watch yesterday's episode of CSI.

Oh well. Need to start relearning the nursery rhymes again, anyway!

Hey, other Yank!

Yes, I know what happened in the episode you mentioned, and I know I wouldn't be able to watch it. Midwestern girls are supposed to be tough...we're giving them a bad name.

I didn't know that there was stuff about poor little Jamie on again-that's another thing I really can't stand. I was fairly young when it happened, and I'll never forget it.

And also the age thing...I knew a LO who was diagnosed with a brain tumor at 8 months, and for some reason I held my breath for DS's whole 8th month, though of course you can be diagnosed w/a brain tumor at any age.

Today I read about Jamie's killer being back in jail. That case happened when I was about 10, and for some reason I'd had it in my head that Jamie was 4, which is so horrible, but when I saw he was 2, my DS's age, I just...couldn't breathe for a minute or two. It's just a baby really, and the thought of someone hurting someone else at all, let alone someone so small and not knowing to be afraid and try to run...it just destroys me. I kept thinking of my LO. I read about it at my friend's house this a.m. and managed to make it home fine until DH asked if I was ok. I burst into tears on the spot.

When I went to work (I work with six year olds) I made sure to hug them all this morning.

Sigh. I really need to go on a retreat or something and have no contact with the outside world for a decade or so until I'm more stable...I really can't handle this stuff!

I have not been able to watch/read the news since DS was born 6 weeks ago.

There was a photo of a sad-looking monkey in DH's magazine, and he hid it from me because he knew it would make me cry.

I miss being the hard-hearted bitch I once was.

Congrats on your new LO mamalazarou! 6 weeks, how precious!

(In addition to being a huge wuss since motherhood, I am now apparently a person who uses the word "precious". CRIPES!)