Is the human brain designed to hate the sound of a baby crying?

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So I have never had any children but I been around crying babies. There is something about the sound of a baby crying that makes me want to rip my hair out. It’s kinda like a scratching a chalkboard reaction to it. Don’t get me wrong I love babies but the crying not so much. 
This had me wondering if this is a natural human reaction to hate the sound of a crying baby. Kinda like a instinct to do whatever you can do make the baby happy and stop crying. A instinct to need to give your baby attention, affection, or feed, or change your baby?

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I hate hearing it, but it makes me want to make the crying stop. I think that’s what the instinct is. To make the crying stop by comforting, changing, or feeding baby. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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I’ll be honest I hate crying babies or kids 🤷🏼‍♀️ specially when they are not my kids

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I feel the complete opposite. When I hear a baby crying I want to comfort them and hold them. It makes me sad. I’ve been nursing since 2018 and ever since then when a baby is crying my nipples leak milk.

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Take this off anon so we can discuss it, just because you don’t like the sound of babies crying doesn’t mean you’re a bad person. I have 3 kids the youngest being almost 9 months old, and I use to love his little cries but now his cries turned into screams and I no longer like it.
When my other two cry I don’t like it either I love my kids but when they whine I wanna pull my hair out especially if they aren’t really hurt!.

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I want to answer this so bad but it's Anon 😔

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That’s how I feel too, I’m extremely sensitive to high pitched sounds and my anxiety literally sky rockets when I hear a child screaming/crying. I don’t think it’s necessarily an instinct, it’s just an annoying sound like how a blaring car horn is annoying lol.

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For me it just depends on the baby. Different babies have different cries. Some I can handle and some I cannot.￼ The ones I can’t handle make me just want to leave the room as far away from them as I can 😂 ￼My own daughters cry, I was never aggravated by it. It always made me feel so bad for her so I would comfort her and try to figure out what’s wrong. ￼

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I'm not really sure if its instinct or just noise nuisance and understanding that babies cry when somthing is wrong and it's our job to comfort.

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Yes. Your brain is wired to make it stop. I can't stand any baby crying but she my son cries I CANNOT ignore it even if my husband has him and I know he's okay. My skin starts to crawl and my anxiety skyrockets if I try to ignore him

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I never hated hearing babies cry until I had a baby. The sound never bothered me before but now it does.

Is the human brain designed to hate the sound of a baby crying?

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