crying babies/children

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Do babies or children crying bother you? I can't stand to hear crying babies, especially newborns. The sound just gets to me so that I feel like crying myself. Ever since I had to give up my older daughter for adoption, hearing crying babies has had an affect on me. Maybe that's a part of motherhood. I don't know. I'm hearing a baby crying right now in the library and it's really bothering me. Crying children aren't quite as bad, but it's still unpleasant for me to hear them cry. It makes me think of my own two daughters, both of whom I'm not taking care of right now. Can anyone else relate to this?

The sound of crying babies has evolved to be the most annoying sound to humans for survival of the species reasons. I believe this is quite normal for every body to be bothered by it. Because you gave up a baby for adoption, this may be even more so for you.

I don't mind newborns crying, their cries are low. I don't like hearing toddlers shriek. It always makes me anxious and then I get an urge to yell "shut up."

Yes, I can't bear it, but for a different reason (traumatic experience). I've been sleeping in my living room for several weeks now because because the neighbours through the wall from my bedroom have had a baby. Hideous noise and a wealth of bad memories.

I don't mind newborns crying so much. It is a bit annoying, but usually they cry for a reason and it's their only way to communicate, like animals. But toddlers crying is what I do hate. Usually they cry to be naughty; they want something they can't have and cannot handle the word "no", so they retaliate by screaming. I suppose I was the same. But they're still annoying.

I hate it when people bring young children into restaurants. Where I come from, every restaurant has to be family-friendly, and if you get one restaurant that tries to have a no small children policy, every parent gets all angry about it. But sometimes us adults want to enjoy a meal out without having to hear other people's kids whining and screaming near them. But every time I go to a restaurant, doesn't matter what day of the week it is or where the restaurant is located, there is always a 2-year-old there, always.

Even babies and toddlers are allowed in the cinema these days, if there's a G-rated film. When me and my friend last went to see a movie, I expected there would be children in there, but in the row in front of us was a couple with a child that looked younger than two. It obviously wasn't concentrating on the film, and kept yelling and moving about, and it was so distracting. It was too young to understand the rules of the cinema. I never went to the cinema until I was 12. My parents didn't like to take me because I had ADHD so they thought I might not be able to pay attention, and ruin it for everyone else. That was fair enough.

I have to tolerate it. I work in a pediatric doctors' office. My desk is near enough the waiting room that I hear all the crying kids who don't want shots and don't want to be there. Also the hallway between exam rooms runs behind me so I hear them fussing all the way to their rooms when they're called back. And some of them scream loud enough that I can still hear them through the doors after they've been roomed.

Sometimes it bothers me more than other times. Some of that depends on the tone of the cry, some on other factors like what I'm trying to do and how frustrated I am by it. Newborns cry about everything, even getting weighed. But it just makes me think about how cute and helpless they are more than it is annoying; toddlers having obvious temper tantrums is much worse. I can usually tell by the tone if it's just a child who is used to getting his/her own way by crying and screaming.

Of course, sometimes it's autistic kids and I identify with their stress and distress. There was a teenage boy in the waiting room yesterday, and he was hooting. ASD kid there for shots. I just felt sad that there was apparently nothing anyone could or would do to reassure him.

But I couldn't do my job without learning to cope with crying babies and kids. Some days it's almost constant.

They don't bother me as much as the over reactive parents do.

Absolutely hate the sound. It's always bothered me since I was a kid.

Yes; it's annoying... and painful and I wish it wasn't. Apparently I was a quiet baby, so I guess at least I'm not being retroactively hypocritical.

Children annoy me and are generally a bother and crying babies are even more troublesome. My mom always calls herself joking with me about getting me to adopt a small child(baby) but I feel like if I did I would probably end up either going to jail or that kid would grow up with detachment issues.

The sound of a baby or child crying or screaming gives me thoughts I can't even post. I can't tolerate children, and people think that makes me a bad person- especially since I'm female. The fact that I won't reproduce and abuse a child actually makes me an awesome person.

I get very anxious when babies cry. That sound is in the range of frequencies that can cause me to shutdown even at usually tolerable volumes. It doesn't help that I have a strong maternal instinct (though I've never had baby fever). I never want to harm the baby, my line of thinking is more like "WHAT DO YOU WANT?!?!?! PLEASE TELL ME!! !" This conflicts with the shutdown and in general it's just a mess.

The sound of crying babies is bad enough; screaming toddlers really get on my nerves.

the worst is the their face when they are about to cry. they do that face http://theparentjournal.com/wp-content/ ... g-baby.jpg , and i just deep breath, and think here we go. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. i start to feeling bad just with their crying face since its obvious that they are about to cry and make a sound that will hurt me.
its a paradox for me, because i know that i should feel bad because its a kid crying, and every other adult is worried about the kid, but i just think about myself, because the noise hurt me, and i start to get angry at the kid. someone else feel that paradox?
but shouting is unforgivable, screw everyone whos shout, adult, kid, old

I can't stand the sound of crying kids or being around young kids in general. It's not cute or charming in any way. From an biological view the sound being annoying makes sense though.

A few weeks ago at Christmas I was so uncomfortable because my cousin brought her son. Everyone but me was all over this kid. Oh isn't it so cute the way he does this and that? Uh no not really he seems like a pain in the ass. I know I had a mom who did stuff for me but I realize I really don't want kids.

As inappropriate as I knew it would be I really wanted to say something. The kid stares at me all the time. My cousin kind of annoys me anyway so this was not helping. And probably because she is a first time mother but good god every little thing is a big as the pyramids being built. So I kept my mouth shut and hid in a bathroom. Sweet silence.