Mmmm well I know my mother believed that babies were naughty when they cried & I was left to cry all the time.

I had a completley different philosophy in parenting my own babies.

It is known that a babies cry does a little trip on the mamas - that's what it is for. So that the child can be attended to... I got incredibly anxious when DD14 cried & I held her for most of her first 2 years of life!

I also felt agitated & compelled to attend to my other children when they cried. However I didn't feel anxious.

I reckon it's a fairly normal reaction for Mamas to feel agitated, anxious wanting to respond to their crying baby...