How does your body react when your LO cries?

[Brewster]

My 2nd is now 2 years old but at night if I hear (or think I hear) her cry my body goes a bit panicky.
My heart beats fast, my tummy flutters, i feel like electric shocks through my body…..
I had this with my first but about 10 times worse .

Anyone else?

Yes this exactly! Have 2yo and 4mo - racing heart, short of breath, feeling hot, horrible feeling.

thank goodness - thought was only me!!

Me too! Feel so stressed! Could listen to anyone else's child crying and it would completely go over my head..

what is it?
horrible feeling isn't it…

was sooo awful with my first.

My dh was once cuddling me in bed, when ds made a noise in the next door room. Dh could feel the shoot of adrenaline that coursed through my body on hearing the noise, which was only a murmur. Dh was surprised at quite how my body reacts & I think appreciates now quite the connection us mothers have with our kids.

wowsers!!
yeah it is so powerful.
not pleasant at all but i am sooo pleased i am not alone
tough of course feel sorry for you xx

When my ds was a small baby my body would start making milk, my breasts would get hot and hard and milk would leak out. Ds hardly ever cried but my body had the same reaction when I heard any baby cry, we stayed in hospital for a week when ds was a month old, the other poor crying babies made my boobs go crazy!

Ha, sd is 2 and I do get that feeling but to be honest I think what I am panicking about is the thought I might have to get out of bed!

If DD cries because she's hurt herself eg, falling over while toddling (a proper cry not a whinge) it makes me well up I really have to try hard not to cry too.

I just get an immense urge (more like a need really) to pick her up and cuddle her. Even if someone else (even dh) is holding her I want to take her myself and cuddle her.

I completely get this. Dd got upset in the car yesterday and I couldn't get her out of her carseat when we stopped because I went into a panic. I just couldn't control my hands properly because her crying was making me so upset and panicky. It's so intense!

Weird isn't it?! It makes me, the ultimate multi-tasker, completely unable to concentrate on anything else at all. I'm constantly mystified as to how DP can just carry on talking.

Emm....well my fists clench with frustration but its ok cos I roll over and stick me ear plugs back in
just kidding
My husband has more of an emotional reaction to them waking up it neither of us can bear to hear then cry and we've been crap and teaching them to self soothe as a result.....so......four years in we look like pensioners

I feel awful.

And my DD is 7 and non verbal so cries and squeals a LOT still..what fun.

Awful. And we have a determined crier! 3.5 years in and I've heard more crying and squealing than I want to think about! This thread is great because I thought maybe I found my physical reaction so intense and unpleasant because we've had so much crying and carrying on. But looks like it's normal. Still wish we didn't have such a grizzly grumbled though, for his sake as well as ours!