a bit sensitive - news headlines have me in tears!

[MantaRay]

I am the same and it's been over 2 years since I was last pg. Apparently the emotional synapses in the brain increase during pg and then stay there. I don't think it's such a bad thing though.

[Rouge]

MR you are right, my MIL (in her 50's all children grown) is STILL the same. She cries when she reads about children dying and can't get it out of her head.

[katykins]

THanks. It's some comfort to know I'm not the only one blubbering about the news.

It just makes me feel so powerless about things that go wrong in the world. I see the story and I just think there is absolutely nothing I can do to help that child, animal, person. It's too late now!

I guess the only thing I can do is to look after the things I do have control over, I can always protect my kids to the best of my ability so that none of those things will happen to them and they'll be safe and happy. ANd if I do feel that some other poor soul is in trouble, I guess then I can intervene and report it. But that's about the only thing I really can do.

But if the synapses (sp?) are set then I'll probably always get the heart pounding feeling when I hear about something else. Like in Melbourne today they're reporting two attempted abductions of young school girls. Guys physically grabbing them and trying to get them into a car. The only good thing is that the perverts were unsuccessful. I just dread what will be in tomorrows news!

[satya]

I got very sensitive to news headlines during my pregnancy. At one stage I had to stop watching the news as I'd ball about all the horrible things going on in the world. I'd cry about children dying or being injured, I'd cry about mums or dads dying, I'd just cry about the war in Iraq, I'd cry about environmental issues. You name it, it would send me off. I started to wonder what kind of world I was bringing my child into.

I can watch the news again now & am not so sensitive to most things but I still cry about kids dying.

Just before the news headlines went from the funeral of the two kids that drowned whilst dad was fishing to one about the twins that drowned in their pool. I burst into tears at the thought of the grief that those families must be going through. I think becoming a parent just makes you far more sensitive to those types of headlines.

[Mum0809]

It makes me cry too. I seen about the two toddlers drowning in the pool and cried and cried.