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Music brings tears to my babies eyes

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laudaud · 17/07/2006 14:58

Very odd thing happened at the weekend. DD found a toy that she hadn't seen since she was a few months old (she is 1 year old now). It is a bear which plays music when you pull a string. As soon as the music started, the bottom lip came out and she started crying (real proper crying). Is it possible that this music reminds her of something stressful when she was younger - I thought she was fairly content all year!

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misdee · 17/07/2006 14:59

maybe she just didnt liek the toy and it scared her?

WigWamBam · 17/07/2006 15:00

Maybe she wasn't expecting the bear to start playing music, and cried because it took her by surprise or frightened her?

Twiglett · 17/07/2006 15:00

I think you're reading too much into it

she didn't like the toy or the music

mazzystar · 17/07/2006 15:01

i doubt its a memory of something stressful. my friend's little boy really really doesn't like anything that sings at him at all.

aragon · 17/07/2006 15:01

Yep - reckon it scared her. My DS had a fabulous crawling toy - a plane which played music and went across the floor slowly. He loved it and then hit a year to 15 months and became petrified of it. Ended up giving it away.

MrsJohnCusack · 17/07/2006 15:02

yes I think it's most likely she just didn't expect it to play music and got a shock

my DD went through a stage of bawling miserably at toys for no apparent reason, she got over it. She took a particular dislike to an image of someone surfing on a Baby Einstein DVD for a while, but that passed too!

Twiglett · 17/07/2006 15:03

is this because of that stupid baby mind-reader programme (haven't seen it, but have heard about it .. sounds like total bollocks / witch doctor stuff to me)

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laudaud · 17/07/2006 15:12

No Twiglett - have seen the baby mind reader and think it's absolute twaddle but a great way of telling parents that they are crap - seems much more acceptable when it comes from the child!
It's nice soft classical music - maybe she would prefer hard rock. She has other musical toys which she is fine with. I did pull the string a few times to check if it really was a reaction to the music (I know I'm cruel) and reaction was the same every time.

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laudaud · 17/07/2006 15:38

reading your responses I'm starting too feel paranoid - honestly I am a normal, cynical person who doesn't generally read too much into anything.

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glassofwine · 17/07/2006 15:43

Don't worry my DD had a toy that did something similar and made her cry at a similar age, so we hid it - a year or two later it emerged and she had no memory of it at all - so even if it was associated with something negative it will all be forgotten soon.

MrsJohnCusack · 17/07/2006 15:46

no we spent ages trying to analyse what upset DD so much about the surfer

then we just put it away for a few months and she was fine the next time. She also used to wail if anyone sneezed. Now she laughs!

sometimes they just do things for no apparent reason and I reckon there's no point trying to work it out

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laudaud · 17/07/2006 15:49

they are funny little things. My SIL used to always ask me why DD was doing something and overanalysing her behaviour. My response was - she is a person - can you explain everything you do or think?

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Twiglett · 17/07/2006 18:03

"I am a normal, cynical person who doesn't generally read too much into anything. "

ooo .. you're going to fit right in

jambot · 17/07/2006 18:25

My DD has a bear that sings a song. For some reason she's terrified of it and screams as soon as it starts to sing. She's got other musical toys but this is the only one that scares her.

maggiems · 17/07/2006 19:33

I doubt that it reminds her of something stressful but simething similiar used to happen to one of my twin boys when he was a few months old. My DH had got a present of all the videos of the Godfather films and he was going through a phase of watching them regularly. We noticed that at a particular part of the Godfather music DT2 used to bawl his eyes out. He did this time and time again at exactly the same part of the music which was a particularly sad part. he did this for ages and then when he hadnt heard it for a while did it again when played. Whilst he didnt like that particular tune , he otherwise loved music from an early age and was trying to dance before he could walk. For a long time he would dance at any opportunity and he has a great ear for a tune.

kbaby · 17/07/2006 21:39

Dont worry about it. My DD used to love having lullaby's sang to her as a baby but from the age of 18 months if she hears a lullaby she sobs her heart out. No idea why but we have to fast forward a nursery rhyme DVD at the lullaby bit and the music class she goes to have had to stop singing slow songs.

She even has a little people house and when you press the cot it plays a lullaby, she presses it and cries we stop it playing and then she presses it and cries again!!
Its as if she almost likes crying at it.

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laudaud · 19/07/2006 09:12

thanks Twiglett - my fear is that I have noticed like minded people on here and I could become addicted!

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