I hurt my baby co sleeping

[Bumpyroads]

Baby is a terrible sleeper, we co sleep and I feel very sleep deprived.
I have always talked in my sleep however last night I had a nightmare and got very angry in my sleep.
We were co sleeping and baby was sleeping in the crook of my arm.
I bit him in my sleep hard on his eyebrow, I woke up immediately to him crying I thought I had bitten his eye and immediately started shouting at my husband to turn on the light. Im so upset about it he has red teeth marks which will probably leave a bruise.
Not sure I can tell anyone in real life so posting here

Co sleeping is natural when done safely.

Absolutely. People can debate the evidence on whether sleep training is harmful or beneficial because there isn't any clear evidence either way. They can't debate whether it's harmful or beneficial for a baby to have a safe and stable mother - the evidence on this is absolutely crystal clear. One of the best things a mother can do for her baby is protect her own well-being.

Its fine when done safely

This is not child abuse. Catch yourself on - you’re being offensive for no good reason.

I didn’t say it was the same thing, I was replying to a poster who was accusing OP of child abuse and has now been deleted.

Why is it normal? They are eating solids at this age!

There is no reason a baby of 11 months needs milk in the night. It’s just a habit.

I’m glad the OP is sleep training. It’s the best plan all round.

Good luck OP. It’s worth the effort now for everyone to have a decent nights sleep.

And to echo others both mine slept better in their own cots im their own room. As did I!

Hi all,
Just coming on to say that we've had some reports about this thread and made some deletions. Peace and love and all that, gang, it can be a fine line between support, discussion and inquisition sometimes so let's tread a little carefully.
Thanks.

It is absolutely normal and milk should still be making up a large part of their nutrition at this age.

You seem to be confusing your personal opinions with natural and medical fact.

It’s also completely normal for babies of 11 months to still want comfort at night. They’re not robots, they’re infants.

Gp will 100% refer you to social services and child protection.

Well done you. Not just for having amazing self control in your sleep, but also for endorsing the well known MN theory that if you haven’t experienced it yourself it can’t possibly exist.

But this is an example of accidentally injuring a baby . Best avoided

Which is not a reason not to take the child to the GP. Removing the child is the last resort - OP may well get the help she needs from a referral. She also has a health visitor appointment - if she cancels this and it later comes to light that the baby was injured, how do you suppose she should explain it ?

I had no issues and would co sleep again.

It does not need to make up a large part of their nutrition at night..and it’s detrimental to their appetite in the day if it does.

Good for you, but no one is advising you on whether to co-sleep, they're advising OP, for whom it is demonstrably not safe.

As I thought. Just here for a bun fight. You realise all of your posts have been deleted and you’ve been reported multiple times for attacking the OP and other posters ? No doubt this one will go the same way shortly.

This is shocking.
Biting during a bad dream. I have never heard of anything like it.
If you’ve done it once you could do it again.
Do not sleep with your baby.

MN doesn’t disclose who reports posts which break talk guidelines, and if you scroll back there was a warning on the thread from MN about posts attacking the OP and other posters personally, which you were certainly guilty of in every post. I’m not denying reporting you but if all your contributions were deleted then l wasn’t the only one who did so.

The child was bitten entirely innocently by OP while co-sleeping with them - she was asleep and in mid nightmare. OP has now stopped co-sleeping and has taken advice from the posters here who actually want to help a mum in need, rather than kicking them while they’re down. Your characterisation of it as child abuse was designed for nothing more than to put the boot in, and the fact that your conscience is clear regarding the vile comments that got you deleted, tells us everything we need to know.

She isn’t. Read the thread.

I want to gently suggest that if you talk in your sleep then that could be why baby is a terrible sleeper. He needs to sleep in a cot beside your bed if still very small, but in his own room if older. Neither of you can sleep well if he is in the crook of your arm.

when he wakes does he cry? do you feed him back to sleep? Can he use a dummy attached to his pajamas?
if so this association needs to be broken somehow. At 11 months it is 100% for him to be in his own room.