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.
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