To STILL be checking the baby's breathing?!

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He's 5 months.

At what point does your heart stop flying into your mouth when they're sleeping, and doing that shallow sleep breathing. And you stare for ages to watch their chests rise and fall. Even though their cheeks are pink. And theyre all warm and cosy. And clearly alive but sleeping.

WHEN DO YOU JUST BELIEVE THEYRE FINE?!!!

(Lighthearted but also.... WHEN?!? )

DS was a very pale baby, and he scared the life out of me numerous times when he was tiny. He is 9 now, and I can't help checking any sleeping person I encounter for breathing, not just him. I think I' stuck with this for life!

My DD is 2 in a month and I check her about 4 times of an evening and I put my hand on her chest to check her breathing. I can't see me ever not doing it....

DD is 2 and a half.
She had the angel care sensor pad till she was nearly a year, only got rid of it when she rolled off it and scared us to death! Still check her every night to make sure she's breathing. If I don't I can't sleep for worrying! She recently started waking at 7am instead of 6am, the first few mornings I woke in a panic and went to check on her.

I only removed our angelcare movement detection mat when we took the sides off his cot at 3. Still miss that peace of mind! Perfectly normal :)

Yep, Angel care sensor only came out with sides of cot here too and ds had just turned 3. That thing saved my sanity! We're a few months on and I still check on him every night when I go up to bed! I'm not sure it's going to stop till he moves out tbh!

11 months and still check (although dd is in her own room so I check the camera)

I stopped checking DD1 over the summer when she had just turned 9... because she had moved up into a bunk bed and I couldn't get up easily to check!

(She does also sigh loudly in her sleep so that helps!)

I still check 5yo DD2 (partly because she has only recently started sleeping through the night, so I get a bit worried if she hasn't woken at least once before I go to bed...! )

Dts are nearly 6, I always check them!

DS is 5 yrs old and I still use a monitor to listen to him breath snore trump moan snuffle sigh at night. Do what feels right to you.

Dd is 8 and I still do this!

I'm ashamed to say that I still do this often! My DD is 9 years old! I do have a few boundary issues though.

I found after the age of 5/6 it wasn't so often.

My ds is 18 I still check, if he's awake he rolls his eyes at me. 👀

A few years ago we went to visit DS1 at uni, having a family room at the hotel I got up to check on DS2 as I couldn't hear him breath, he was 17 at the time. I mentioned this to his wife the other day and she says she does the same

I woke my 18mo DS2 up the other day as I was convinced he wasn't breathing. I always check he and DS1 (4) are breathing when I go to bed etc.

I wake about 6 times a night to make sure ds is breathing, he's ten months, I was starting to relax until about 3 weeks ago when he started to sleep on his tummy and all over the cot, now I'm as bad as the first few nights!!

I still check both mine (8yrs and nearly 6yrs). DS does actually stop breathing though and more than once I have lifted him limp from his bed mid-seizure to start resuscitation and call an ambulance.

This is very unlikely to happen to you. Never feel silly for checking though.

I check DH too...

DD1 has moved out now, but I still look in on DD2 on occasion and she's 24!

I poke my head round the door and have a quick peek, she does have asthma and I'll always go in if she's coughing during the night

We still have the movement monitor on for DS 20 months...

I'm still a checker dd is now 6

DS is 15 months old and I'm happily listening to him snore over the baby monitor right now. I'll inevitably zoom in on the screen a few times during the night to watch his chest rise and fall, just to be sure.

DH thinks I'm crazy. I'm going to show him this thread to prove it's not just me!

I check my children's rearming and the oldest is 11.

I wonder if my MIL checks DH is still breathing when he stays there without me.

Would not be surprised!

The midwife Put the fear of god into me about overheating so I still chec for that (I have teen who sleeps with two duvets).
I know I can't drive up the halls of residence so I'l have to stop when DTs turns 18.

Orange...me too!