a bit sensitive - news headlines have me in tears!

[katykins]

Is anyone else overly sensitive to news headlines while they're pregnant, mainly when hearing about bad / sad things happening to children?

Just today there were those two little twins in the drowning accident. But it seems like there is something every day.

I don't remember noticing these headlines before having kids but I suppose it's only natural - and now I am pregnant I am so horrified everytime I log on to the internet (it doesn't help that my home page is the age) and I can't get images out of my head. It really takes over -especially at night. The world just seems so awful sometimes.

Has anyone else noticed this during pregnancy - how do you cope with it?

Kate
12wks

[New Dawn]

I am not even pregnant and I get tears... ( I just dont watch the news anymore cant take it ) but yes it is very normal to start to cry at everything when your UTD....

[black_rose]

It always makes me sad too, there was the two toddlers drowning in the pool and the little girl missing in Qld from a flooded river mouth its awful.

[Salsa]

Yes, it really gets to me in the 2nd half of my pregnancies.
I stop watching tv news and only sometimes check in on internet news - that way I can keep up to date (ish) but also have more choice in deciding if I want to click on what the headline is about or not, rather than with tv it just being blurted out.
There are certain ads I cant watch on tv when I am pregnanct either, or they just keep traumatising me - so I keep the sound off or flick channels when ads are on.
Oh, and I stop reading the papers too.

Those are my coping ways - I wish I started earlier with this pregnancy though, I was so upset for weeks about that flat in Sydney where the couple fell from the balcony.

[AnyDream]

Yep me too. I pretty much stopped following the news, it was too hard.

I also only read happy books and watched happy movies/tv. Just couldn't cope with anything else.

[JennaJayen]

I get it when I watch the news and read the newspaper too. Especially when babies and young children are mentioned.

[AJC]

I've been extremely emotional lately so I virtually cry over anything but I do remember when I first got my BFP Jane McGrath died shortly after and that in particular had me in tears every time I saw it on the news. I was watching the trailer to the Marley & Me movie on you tube last weekend and when DH walked in the room I was a mess (I'm a real animal lover & if you've read the book you will be able to relate to my insanity) and he'd thought something was really wrong. I just let the tears flow when they want to, I'm not good at holding it in it just makes me worse.

[Lulu]

I remember watching the LA riots dripping tears onto my newborn girl. It was awful and I really thought I made a mistake bringing her into the world.

So no news until children are.......ummm 35!