Two year old with noise phobia

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DD has always been aware of loud noises (understandably).

However, DD went to stay with my mum for a few weeks and on her return home she is petrified of noise, everything from the washing machine, hairdryer and Hoover makes her scream and shake.

She is inconsolable, which is surprising as we have a fairly noisy household normally.

Has anyone else experienced this with their children?

TIA

It is possible she has hypersensitive hearing and loud noises on certain frequencies actually hurt her ears.

This can be cured with auditory integration training.......

Of course it might be something else.....

Sorry, I have nothing to share but will be watching this thread closely as DD (Also 2 years old) is the same. She is now so bad that even if we say the n-o-i-s-e word, she covers her ears and starts crying. We are completely stumped as she is fearless in every other regard!

If it's new, maybe something happened? We took DD (aged 2.5) on a flight, which experienced turbulence. It was so bad it knocked her over. After that she was afraid of noise/vibration - she would shake and cry getting into lifts, for example. At first I was extremely sympathetic, but that just reinforced the behaviour - she shook and cried and then got picked up, cuddled and fussed over. After a week I started to get a bit firmer. I told her what was going to happen, how brave I knew she could be, how I had too many things in my hands to pick her up - and then I encouraged her to hold my knee for comfort while the bad experience happened. Then lots of praise for bravery in the face of lifts. She's still very upset by hand-driers in public loos, but I promise not to use them myself, explain that they are perfectly safe and praise her bravery (even as she shivers).

I'd like to say that I have employed the same technique to deal with her (longer-standing) fear of hoovers, but DH and I just take turns to take her into another room... Incidentally, she has been able to cope with the hoover in emergency-plate-breakage situatuations - she still shook, but plenty of encouragement and sitting 'safe' on the sofa seemed to do it.

Evelyn (beautiful name btw) - I think so, but I don't know what because she has been staying with my mum for the past five weeks. My mum said she was frightened of noise at her house too, which is strange as she wasn't afraid before she left.

Indigo - it's a fairly new thing, but we have a developmental check next week so I'll mention it then. I have hypersensitive hearing and it is painful but she's doesn't appear to be in pain - more terrified than painful.

Bright side - our DD is fearless too, it's just noises that put her on edge.

I thought it was perhaps a behavioural stage, but I wasn't sure.