Nothing causes me to well up faster than

When DD was about 1 1/2yo, she was very sick and needed intravenous fluids. The nurses had a hard time getting a vein and DD howled her head off and I was holding her with tears streaming down my face. DH commented that he was afraid he was going to have to pick his wife up off the floor. It took several hours for the fluids to go in. DD settled down fairly quickly once they had the line in but every now and then she would look up at me and say in a little, sad voice "I'm all done now" and I would be in tears all over again.

I agree with you there. I hate to hear them cry

I usually want to cry right along with them. I hate it when little ones hurt.

When my son was 2 he had scarlet fever and required a shot from what appeared to be a ginormous needle. Poor guy cried and we had to stay in case he had a bad reaction to the penicillian. The next time the nurse walked in and before she even cleared the door, his little armwas outstretched with his tiny hamd in the HALT position and he firmly told her to STOP. No way was he buying anymore of what she was selling!!

OMG.....YES!

I work in Rural Health Care and we have babies in here all day long. I work in a different building but whenever I go up to the exam rooms, my heart just breaks for all the babies I hear crying. I just want to go room to room and comfort each and every one!

My DD is NICU nurse at a large children's hospital....she does this all the time. I asked her if it was hard and she said "of course it's hard! But I have to do it to save their little lives.." She isn't a mother yet....might be harder for her when she is.

I don't know how they draw blood and insert IVs in those tiny babies...but my DD does it with one stick.

When I was nursing, the sound of a baby crying or even a cat meowing would make me leak.

When I hear a tiny baby in a store crying and mom just keeps shopping likes it's no big deal. It's a newborn, feed it, change it, hold it. Pretty easy. It just breaks my heart. I want to take the baby and snuggle it while mom picks out her nail polish or printer ink.

God bless your DD!

I can't stand it, either. DD is a med asst and did an internship at a peds office. She assisted with everything from finger pricks to circumcisions. Killed her. Absolutely killed her to watch, hear and be a part of those children's pain.

The worst part, though, were the parents that thought it was funny. Yes. She had parents that thought the whole thing was a laugh-fest and would ridicule their child for crying.

She now works for an opthomologist.

L