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Family Forum / Pregnancy / Pregnancy / June 2005extra sensitive hearing during pregnancy
Has anyone ever come across this?? I've normally got pretty sensitive hearing to begin with, but I'm currently 12 1/2 weeks pregnant and I just can't handle things being too loud. If normally I would have the TV on about 25 or so (for the volume setting) I now prefer it on about 15 and when my husband watches tv he can't hear it at that level and prefers to make it about 30 which is actually now painful for me. Everything seems louder than it used to be - I assuming it must be something related to the pregnancy, but I haven't read about it or anything anywhere - does anyone know anything about this? I have notived the same thing! I'm about 22 weeks. I've always loved to jam out to music, but not now. I'm not sure why it is. I haven't heard of hearing sensitivity while pregnant before. > Has anyone ever come across this?? I've normally got pretty sensitive > hearing to begin with, but I'm currently 12 1/2 weeks pregnant and I just [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > but I haven't read about it or anything anywhere - does anyone know anything > about this? Absolutely. I went nuts during my pregnancy with #1 - every car alarm, siren, lawn mower, especially at night, made my shoulders climb to my ears in irritation and discomfort. I'm not sure that things sounded louder, exactly, but the stress I felt in a loud environment or with the tv or music blaring was intense. I craved silence and calm. The noise sensitivity vanished after the baby was born. I felt the same way through this pregnancy, but it's hard to say how much of that is just general frustration with having a loud, exuberant toddler around all the time! Tellingly, my craving for peace and quiet hasn't gone away after giving birth, this time . . . ;) Melania > Has anyone ever come across this?? I've normally got pretty sensitive > hearing to begin with, but I'm currently 12 1/2 weeks pregnant and I just [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > but I haven't read about it or anything anywhere - does anyone know anything > about this? What's been bugging me to death are white noise sounds. Like fans running, a/c running, that kind of stuff. It just irritates me! Joy > What's been bugging me to death are white noise sounds. Like fans running, > a/c running, that kind of stuff. It just irritates me! Oh, me too! The intern in the room next door was freezing (and we have no control over the temperature in these rooms) so he put a garbage bag up with some packing tape over the vent, and it's coming loose, so it's blowing around right now and making me NUTS, but I'm alone, and I don't feel safe crawling up there (the desks are glass, the chairs are on wheels, it's an accident waiting to happen), so I have to deal with *wooshity, wooshity, wooshity, crinkle, crinkle, crinkle* until someone shows up who is balanced enough to fix it. I was just thinking that it was making me insane, right before I read your post. I think this is enough of a reason to go home for a nap, don't you? :) Amy > Oh, me too! The intern in the room next door was freezing (and we have > no control over the temperature in these rooms) so he put a garbage bag [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > I think this is enough of a reason to go home for a nap, don't you? :) Oh, yes, it sounds like a good reason!! I work at a convenience store a couple of nights a week, and there's two a/c's running, a box fan, and a huge fan in the back. Up front, when I'm broasting chicken, I have to turn the air vent on. It drives me buggy! Today, the wind has really picked up, and I'm wanting to tear the chimes down, but like you I don't feel like climbing on something to get to them... Joy > > I think this is enough of a reason to go home for a nap, don't you? :) > > Oh, yes, it sounds like a good reason!! I work at a convenience store a > couple of nights a week, Oh dear, you poor baby, I can't imagine having to be on my feet at night - I would have feet like great giant puff pancakes, and ankles the size of thighs. > and there's two a/c's running, a box fan, and a > huge fan in the back. Up front, when I'm broasting chicken, I have to turn > the air vent on. It drives me buggy! Today, the wind has really picked up, > and I'm wanting to tear the chimes down, but like you I don't feel like > climbing on something to get to them... There has got to be a broom or something that you can beat them down with. I'll bet if you stomp on them, while yelling, "DIE DIE DIE!!!" they're unlikely to be put back up! Windchimes would send me right over the edge. I don't like them when I'm unpregnant, but right now, they'd be unbearable. Amy (sitting alone in my office with the curtains drawn and the lights off, listening to the crinkle of the garbage bag over the vent...) > > > I think this is enough of a reason to go home for a nap, don't you? :) [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > night - I would have feet like great giant puff pancakes, and ankles > the size of thighs. It's fortunately only four hours, and two of those hours involve cleaning the broaster and sweeping/vaccuming. It's a small (read pop: 265) town, so it's not really busy. Sometimes, though, I have to make a lot of chicken, and that sucks. I don't get all swollen up, thank goodness! I think the moving around helps a lot with that, and (shhhh!) I do utilize the chair now and then. :) > > and there's two a/c's running, a box fan, and a > > huge fan in the back. Up front, when I'm broasting chicken, I have to turn [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > with. I'll bet if you stomp on them, while yelling, "DIE DIE DIE!!!" > they're unlikely to be put back up! Oh, what I would do to shut them off! If I were to do so, though, I'd suffocate in the unbearable heat.... That place heats up fast! > Windchimes would send me right over the edge. I don't like them when > I'm unpregnant, but right now, they'd be unbearable. They aren't so bad now and then, but yikers, today they are constant. > Amy (sitting alone in my office with the curtains drawn and the lights > off, listening to the crinkle of the garbage bag over the vent...) Other than the bag over the vent, it doesn't sound too bad... Joy |
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