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Weirdy weirdy weird thing!

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SurferRosa · 09/07/2007 08:14

Ok, I'm going to sound like a nutter. But it started yesterday. When my 4 week old baby cries, I hear it in duplicate.

Seriously. I was in the bathroom this mornig, heard him cry from the crib in my room, and it was in stereo! Like it was echoing at a slightly higher pitch from across the room.

I thought it must just be the acoustics in the room, but it's never happened before...and then I took him down and put him in the cot in the kitchen (yes we have a cot in every room!) and it happened in there as well.

I can't figure it out. Either our house is sort of haunted and some ghost baby from the 1920s is coming through the psychic barriers because of the new child in the house, or else it's a funny sound thing going on.

I'm personally sceptical about the first idea but as Mrs. Potato Head says,

'You never know'.
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Help?!

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Beetroot · 09/07/2007 08:16

have you got bloacked ears?

BecauseImWorthIt · 09/07/2007 08:17

Have you got some kind of ear infection? blocked ear? Too much ear wax?!

Do you have hard wood floors - i.e. the pitch of the cry is creating its own echo?

elesbells · 09/07/2007 08:18

how strange. is it just the baby crying? have you had this with any other sound? i was going to suggest an ear problem but maybe its something else...spooky

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SurferRosa · 09/07/2007 08:20

I had a cold last week...ears a bit funny, so maybe they are blocked or something and that's doing it...but it ain't happening with other noises. Just the crying

No wooden floors...carpet upstairs and concrete downstairs (we can't afford any vinyl yet, kitchen is huge!)

hmm.

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Beetroot · 09/07/2007 08:21

it may be the frequecny of the crying that is doing something to yourears after the cold.

elesbells · 09/07/2007 08:22

it might be you have an ear infection and its only a certain pitch that triggers this. its probably why you dont hear it with other noises.

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SurferRosa · 09/07/2007 08:22

Good point, Beetroot. I think that has to be it, otherwise I am going to be freaked out!

Ears seem fine now but they were funny last week for sure. So that's my guess. Thanks for sorting that out for me!!!

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SurferRosa · 09/07/2007 08:24

Ah xposts elesbells, thankyou too

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TranquilaManana · 09/07/2007 08:24

nah, youre just wierd

(thats what my mum always used to say to questions she couldnt answer... ie 'mum, why does my leg feel like its falling off?'. helpful)

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SurferRosa · 09/07/2007 08:24

Last thing I need, TWO screaming infants!!!!

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TranquilaManana · 09/07/2007 08:28

tell me about it! (i have 3)

CantSleepWontSleep · 09/07/2007 14:25

Do you have a baby monitor that it's sounding through?

HappyDaddy · 09/07/2007 14:26

Do you have a baby monitor in your hand?

CantSleepWontSleep · 09/07/2007 14:29

How odd - I posted my post at 8:21 this morning, but it says it's posted just now, as I've got back in .

mytwopenceworth · 09/07/2007 15:53

As I recall - but bear in mind I was half insane with the sleep deprivation - your baby cries at a pitch like no other and it pierces you and goes right through you! It is a penetrating sound. could that be it? You are feeling the baby cry all around you?

I bloody did.

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SurferRosa · 09/07/2007 17:20

Realised that the cat is also having this effect...it's my ears then !

Unless we are being haunted by a cat as well.

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SurferRosa · 09/07/2007 17:21

MTPW - join you on the insanity...

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