To ask you to calm me down!!!

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11 DD went up for a bath and I was pottering doing jobs and realised she'd been a while...went upstairs and she'd nodded off in the bath!!!!! Now I'm freaking out that she cod have drowned??!! But surely you don't sit outside the bathroom while your 11 year old is in the bath??!!

Chances are that she would've woken up straight away as soon as she went underwater

How long are her legs? It's unlikely that she would go under the water at that age - if her feet touch the end, she's fine. I fall asleep in the bath all the time and so do many adults. I know it must be worrying but nothing bad happened.

Ask her to leave door unlocked in future
Most people would wake up if they are drowning!

But it would have freaked me out too

I used to do this at around the same age! As a PP says my legs were long enough to hold me up, but still dangerous.
I’m alive to tell the tale but looking back I can see it was pretty silly!

I literally can’t have a bath without falling asleep. Not dead yet

She’ll be fine. She’s not drunk.

Thank you, feel better for your responses. She did admit she was exaggerating how asleep she was (she often does this for 'cute effect'... she's the youngest of a big family so always the baby...) I think my freaked out reaction may stop it happening again!

I would freak out too and probably say they can only have showers from now on. Then go to bed clutchibg my dressing gown and be upset about it for ages.

I also used to do this at around the same age. I also used to lie back with my ears underwater and then my family would come running in because they'd been shouting me and I couldn't hear them. I would just shout through the door every so often to see if she's okay. Ask her to not lock the door. I agree that the shock of slipping underwater would wake her up anyway.