How often do you check your DCs

[maltedmilk1]

Just interested to know how many times people check their LOs once they are in bed & how old are they?

I have DD who is 22 months & I have always been an avid checker! She is asleep by 7pm id say I check her about 3-4 times before I'm in bed for 11pm.

If I wake up randomly in the night I always do then too

I'm too much of a worrier hence why I check my daughter a lot and always check she's breathing. You do hear awful things about children in the night...just can't bare it!

If you don't check your kids I think you must not be as much of a crazy worrier as me which can only be a good thing!!

3-4 times between 7pm and 11pm... So that's more often than once an hour?! What do you do in the evenings, just sit and worry? I'd put the telly on if I were you.

My first check is to see what random stuff DD has got up to since I left the room and check she's not too hot/cold/asleep in a drawer..

She's two and she sends me downstairs now so she can go to sleep "like a big person". But sometimes she's gets out of bed and takes clothes off/put more clothes on, so mostly checking she's appropriately dressed/covered up for temperature!

I checked on my first in a similar fashion but now he's three tend to check once when I go to bed unless he is unwell.
My nearly one year old, however, is such a light sleeper that we never check on her unless she wakes.

Teenagers! And I check on them before I go to bed at 11 (usually to turn off lights) but if I wake during the night I check on them too. Still making sure they're breathing and safe just like when they were babies . What will I do when they leave home?!

Mine don't wake easily and sleep with lamp on/doors ajar so if I go to the loo or something I tend to peek in, and I have a quick look before I go to bed, but it's only as I'm passing their rooms anyway. I don't think I'd make a special trip.

We live in a bungalow so can hear them easily. I check 3 yo when I go to bed and 1 yo I open the door a crack and listen for his breathing. He's such a light sleeper if I go in properly he wakes up!

17 months old and still.in my room. He goes to sleep around 7, I am often in bed by 9, 10 at the latest. If I go up to the toilet I will pop my head round the door but otherwise no checks. We have a monitor on so hear if he wakes.

Mine are still small (2.5 and 1) and they sleep in cots with the doors closed and no nightlights. On rare occasions I've tried to tiptoe in to get something out of their rooms and it has woken them. So I don't check them at all once they're in bed. It never really occurred to me. I probably would if they were sick but otherwise I don't want to disturb them. We have monitors in their rooms which we use when we're downstairs but once we go to bed we switch off the parent units - I'll hear them if they call!

Video monitor on DD, 2, all evening. Turned off when we go to bed but will switch it on it night to check her if I wake, or if she sighs, coughs, sleep talks (which wake me every time).

Don't physically go in her room though unless she wakes.

11 months . Never check

DS is 3 next month - I never check on him once he's in bed! There's no way I'm going to risk waking him up! What are you all checking for anyway? I'm sure if something was wrong he'd let me know.

My twins are such heavy sleepers that I always go in their room the night before holidays to pack their suitcase and have never woken them up! Also if one of them is sick in the night I've dealt with it by stripping them and their bed down and giving them a bath in the en suite, full lights on the works and their twin never wakes up!

Mine are 26 months and I haven't checked on them once they're in bed since they started sleeping in their own room at 2 months. Until they were 20 months I was up with at least one of them a few times a night anyway but now that they sleep through I just go in and give them a kiss when I go to bed. The only exception is when they are ill, then I might check on them once or twice before I went to bed and if I woke up in the early hours

No, I never check. Sometimes ds2 falls asleep with his reading lamp on so I go into turn it off. Otherwise, I'd never think to check but then I have never heard about the awful things that can happen to them in their sleep that checking on them solves.

19, 17, 11 and 4. I check them all, give final goodnight kisses and plus it's nice to watch them sleep or have a last minute chat with the older ones. It goes too quickly and eldest is back to Uni Sunday. You just cannot kiss your kids enough ❤

Hmm...I never check. And have never checked since DS was in his own room from around 5 months old. Granted, he still wakes up in the night (2yo), but the occasional nights he doesn't wake up he is put to bed and then woken up at waking up time. If he wakes up we hear him and go to him.

God no, I don't want to wake them! Mind you one are aged between 10 and 4 now and all perfectly capable of coming to find me. And frequently do. I only check on them if I hear suspicious "I'm mucking around and not sleeping" noises.

I don't check on mine!

I never check unless I have cause for concern.

Dd is 17 months and usually asleep between 7 and 7.30. We have a monitor that is on standby and turns on if it detects noise or movement but we only look at it if she cries etc (rare).

Otherwise I just enjoy the evening and leave her to sleep undisturbed.

I used to check my DD about an hour after she went to bed to make sure her blanket was covering her. It was a C19th terrace house solidly build in stone and with single glazing so it got very cold during the night. We moved to a double glazed house built in the 00s during the summer just before DD turned 2 and whilst it's really warm and well insulated the upstairs floorboards creak like no-one's business when you walk across the landing. So I'm no longer worried about DD being cold but I seriously doubt I could get to her door let alone open it without waking her.

I check on almost 3 year old DS about half an hour after he's gone to bed to check if he's asleep and then again before I go to bed. Never check him in the night, he's loud enough to shout me of he needs me!

We have video on baby monitor, and I absolutely love it, don't know how I would have done without it. My son is asleep by 7.30pm and till 7.30/8am. I check the monitor a couple of times before we go to bed, that's all.
If he is unwell, has fever etc, then either me or DH would go up to check on him/offer some water a few times (before be go to bed and during the night).

I check once before I go to bed. I can't see myself EVER stopping tbh. They're 6 and 3.

I have a kiss and a sniff and whisper "mama and dada love you". Even though me their dada are divorcing. I hope that it seeps in to their dreams.