a bit sensitive - news headlines have me in tears!

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

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....

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

Yep same here! Last time I was pregnant a horse had to be put down after breaking down during the running of the Melbourne Cup - I cried for weeks after whenever I thought about the poor horse :(

Yep, I used to be a news junkie but I avoid anything to do with harm to children, famines and hey, I even have to turn over these days if I'm watching a wildlife program and a bear cub has got separated from Mummy Bear.

I think it is pretty natural to feel those feelings. I have always been animal mad and have always been especially sensitive to animal cruelty stories. Child stories made me uncomfortable but not to the same extent. Now I have DS I find myself overly sensitive to both, especially if the child is the same age as DS or one of his cousins because I feel it like I have lost one of them IYKWIM. I don't think you go back to being the same but you start to learn your limits.

I went through a period when TTC and going through IVF where I refused to watch the news. I told my husband they should rename it "Tragedy" cause that was all they showed at 6pm.

Bel

i cried when i read about a newborn getting drowned in the toilet (on ninemsn) i thought about the poor soul all day , sad news stories really get to me , im quite empathetic and when ever i put my self in someones shoes i really feel for them

i can't watch animal shows any more. i always got a bit upset if something happened to an animal but now i just can't watch the shows at all.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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