My hearts sinks when I hear the baby monitor...

[burps]

Surely I cannot be the only one who feels like that and sometimes thinks 'oh piss off'....

Me too. Once I have both DSs in bed it is my sitting down time. DS2 has been really unsettled all week and needing lots of soothing. I do it but at the end of the day I just want to have a bit of a break!!

Totally reasonable! You are a person with wants, needs, interests and feelings, you are not just a mother. Anyone who claims they like being woken up in the middle of much needed sleep or is happy when their first sit down of the day is a liar!

Mine have not been babies for some time, but I can still remember that feeling of anxiously waiting to see if that snuffle or whimper is going to turn into a proper i'm-awake-get-me-up cry!

It's exhausting being demanding on by a lovely cute little baby. The fact that they are lovely and cute doesn't change that. Don't feel bad!

Yanbu. I turn it down so I don't hear the whimpers only full blown yells. Much easier and I sleep better for it.

We used to have times where as soon as we sat down for dinner, DS would wake up and need resettling. That was tough!

YANBU. DS2 (16 months)sleeps in an adjoining room to ours and has not slept through the night yet. I have purchased ear plugs...I will still hear any loud wails but it should block out the grumbling and snuffling.

I once had a mini tantrum, with foot stamping and everything when I heard DD start crying after I had put the children to bed and I had a glass of wine in one hand and a sneaky cigarette in the other, all whilst hanging out of the door so the smoke wouldnt get in (futile I know) In my defense I was due on and I get rather tetchy before im on!

YANBU but......

It'd be worse if it didn't go off!

YABU - I don't even need a monitor, I have a baby who doesn't sleep unless on me!

I do know how you feel though. My worst bit is when I put her down asleep in her hammock and two minutes later her eyes just pop open. By 2am and the 6th time I usually crying!

i totally agree passionkissunderthemistletoe my heart sinks cos you can guarantee ds will wake when i want to eat, shit or shower, so no burpsYANBU

Mine is when I am just drifting off to sleep at 11/12pm and I hear "thump thump thump, creak" as one of the boys gets out of bed and opens their door. Then I either have to let them sleep with me (que kicking me all night) or spend an hour trying to get them back off whilst not waking the other (They're 4 and 2)

My heart sinks everytime a floorboard creaks when I go to bed!

YANBU! Our cats seem even more disturbed by it than me though, they can't understand why they can here the shrieking yet not see DD...

YANBU btw!

"Just as Damon is getting all lovely" And how lovely he is .

YANBU, we've all done it. You hear the wail and think 'Please, please go back to sleep, your nap hasn't been nearly long enough'.

My DD has just woken up for the third time tonight. Dinner went cold long ago, uneaten. Think I might just admit defeat and go to bed. I keep telling myself it's not her fault, she would enjoy a proper night's rest as well, if only she knew how.

YANBU! Definately not! My LO is only 6 weeks old so he's not really in a sleeping/waking patten but he does seem to know exactly when i'm about to eat something. Its the middle of the night that I really hate, i'll lie there for ages listening to him grumping thinking 'please go back to sleep please go back to sleep' but he never does. This morning he woke up early and I decided I wasn't going to go in if he was just having a bit of a whinge so I got back into bed and managed to doze for another half hour.

Lol at Riven. I watch Damon on ITV Player so I can pause if necessary!

Ours was rarely used as we didn't live in a mansion and unless in the garden easlily heard a baby cry and if he/she was just wimpering it wasn't worth worrying about.

YANBU and anyone who tells you they haven't done this is lying a saint.

YANBU

Mine are 15 and 13 ( years that is! ) old, and just reading this thread has revived memories that have the back of my neck prickling and my stomach lurching.

Thank fuck for this thread! YANBU.