Do you retch when your baby cries??

[accidentalhousewife]

Um, this is a bit odd, but I've noticed that I start retching uncontrollably when my DD cries for more than a couple of minutes. (No, I'm not up the duff again.) Not sure whether it's because I get stressed and that triggers it or whether I'm unconsciously holding my breath or something. Anyway, I was just wondering if it happens to anyone else?? Or I am uniquely weird? (Btw, DD is a baby - I'm not talking about retching just 'cos my teenage daughter is sobbing over Eastenders, or something. Now that would be weird.)

I don't retch but I do sweat - I find myself frantically pulling off my top layer while trying to console her!

Gosh I used to sweat..feel tearful...

It depends on the type of cry with me, If its a truly fearful or pain cry I get prickles, like hackles going up. If its night-time crying because they want to get up and play at 3am then I usually get the sweat thing!

If I hear any child doing a hunger cry I instantly get let down. Really wish people would feed their babies before doing their Asda shop. >

I have never got let-down when DD cries - just in the shower and randomly throughout the day (not even when I'm thinking about her or anything, entirely randomly)

[email protected] the let down...evil yet relief!...gosh i used to get that too!

Thank God I've never done the let-down... but I used to get what felt like heart palpitations when I heard DD cry. They actually gave me an EEG while I was still in hospital because I got so tight-chested and panicky when she cried!

And for a brief period at the beginning EVERYTHING would sound like a baby crying to me - DH once had to stop me from leaping out of bed at 1 in the morning because 2 foxes were mating in the back garden and I though it was DD... even if I went out on my own I'd hear snatches of people's radios etc and think it was a baby/DD crying... but perhaps I'm a bit mental

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i did when i had my first born,i would retch then feed him -i was convinced he didnt like me,i didnt have a clue what i was doing

I never used to retch, but I remember that with ds1 I used to shake and sweat when he cried - and when I was changing his nappy .

Think it is your mad hormones having a laugh like they do - I used to sweat like mad and feel really anxious and have palpitations - did with no 2 too. Hope it gets better for you soon. You could try angnus castus tincture - it helps to regulate your hormones and improves breast milk supply.

sorry agnus castus

I used to try and explain to dh how stressed hearing our babies cry made him but i doubt he understood properly. I've heard my baby cry everywhere and anywhere, sort of weird auditory hallucinations brought about by no sleep for weeks on end.

Especially when you are in the shower !

God, shower was awful.Always heard hugely distressed infant screaming, would rush through it, go downstairs and she would be asleep.

No retching, but nervous sweats if the crying goes on too long. Also I can't concentrate on conversation with DH...

A blackbird squawking set off my letdown when DS was tiny, has not been on such a hair trigger second time round.

If ds wakes, crys, moans or sighs in the night I wake up and have a massive rush of adrenaline which sets my heart racing. I then find it hard to get back to sleep.

We have screeching owls who wake me up thinking it's ds. GGrrrrr.

I;ve had the aural hallucinations... not nice.
When dd cried, it was like a knife twisting inside... and my mind always goes blank when a baby is crying- I cannot hold a thought- I suppose it is to make me see to the baby.

One of the worst things in the early stages is lying in bed - utterly exhausted and spent and sooooooooo desperate for sleep. You lie there, body spent, ears perked up on aural alert, diaphragm taught just waiting and dreading the (you know it's coming) CRY!!! ARGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bloody hard enough to sleep what with bubba waking up to feed every few hours without your own body joining in and making every muscle so tense that it is nigh on impossible to relax enough to sleep anyway.

I hate to depress you all but my MIL still cannot cope with a crying baby, 36 years after she had to deal with one. I've seen her in tears at DS's crying, even just for a few minutes.
I am not so sensitive to it myself!