Does anybody else have these nightmares?

[emkana]

With all three of my children I have had these terrible nightmares:

About 30 mins after falling asleep I wake up, with my heart jumping, convinced that my baby is dead. I reach over to her/him (we co-sleep), and am still convinced that it is true. Sometimes I actually pick them up, sometimes I just feel their chest for breathing.

It is so disturbingly real, my heart is racing then and I am terrified...

then, just as suddenly, I realize it's just a dream.

With the dd's these nightmares disappeared once they were about one, and so I'm hoping they will disappear soon with ds.

Very disturbing though, and I wish I could make them stop!

Dreams like that are awful, I stil have dreams that dts (identical) are newborn in the hospital, and one dies, and without my consent dh pays to have the other one cloned, but I dream that its the present and its a memory that was buried and resurfaced

i absolutely had them. sometimes i'd have put dd back in her hammock and i'd sit up, grab dh and cry 'where's the baby, i can't find the baby' and be all upset. it was very real, i'd panic until i could see she was okay. i don't think they went on as long as one, probably only til about 8 months.

I do as well
dd2 is sleeping longer now at niht and it really panics me when she doesn't wake up when she used to...I get up and go to make sure she is still breathing, freaks me out (she is7 m)

Reassuring to see that it's not just me.

Can't wait for them to stop!!!

isn't 30 mins into sleep one of those times when you go down another level of sleep? i think it's a popular time to have those petit mal seizures where you feel like you're falling as well.

do you mean REM?

i thought that might be later on... not sure. i just remember reading about people getting dropping sensations 30 mins after falling asleep.

It must be something to do with it, because it's always at the same time after falling asleep, never later in the night.