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'....

thank goodness I'm not alone my baby gets fed and changed and cuddled and played will but some times I just want 5 min to me.

YANBU in the slightest! My DS is 8 and I still get the urge to hide behind the sofa if there is a noise from upstairs after bed time! Worse still if the little bugger darling finds me trying to have a crafty fag up the chimney! We need our gin grown up time to be better parents to them when they are supposed to be awake!

On a slightly different topic, I still remember hearing my brother upstairs over the monitor, cooing at his wailing baby daughter: 'Poor Pie, have you got a poo strapped to your arse again?'.

It still makes me

smokinaces - have you tried making a little nest at the side or end of your bed (on the floor) for small lonely people?

I started doing that after poor DH fell out of bed one night when there were just too many people in it. (The boys both climbed in my side and dh just fell out the other side).
He was so tired he just slept the rest of the night on the floor. I reckoned if he could do it they could. They were quite happy snuggled in a duvet, pretending to be a rabbit or similar.......

3littlefrogs - yup, tried most things, they want my big bed. The problem is it is a huge kingsize wiht just me in it, so they think its ok to come one either side

I dont mind if they a)dont wake me getting in and b) dont kick me all night!

I confess to sleeping in their bunk beds and leaving them to my bed on a few occasions.

Ah well.....mine are 22 and 19 now and sleep happily in their own beds.........

Oh god yes, that awful heart sink moment
NOT something I miss at all !!!

at pottonista's brother. And at poor Mr Frogs!

Just laughed very loudly at Pottonista's bro

Just to add - DS is 2.2 and finally sleeps through so I get a whole evening with my boyfriend without the lights starting up (usually JUST as the sex was about to get going... They just know, don't they??)

Of course YANBU.

You can use a video baby monitor instead.When you don't want hear the sounds,you can switch it to light mode,and you can also see your baby's any movement from the screen.

Switching the noise off does not remove the pain. The lights flashing are almost as bad. Do not have a video monitor, though. This is probably for the better, as I'd probably see any movement as a sign that DC is going to wake up and shout the place down. Boo. :(