Anxiety about babies sleep.

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My LO just turned 7 months and is fairly good sleeper. He’s asleep between 8-8.30 pm and if there’s no emergencies he usually sleeps until 5 or 6 in the morning.
He’s very active and loud boy so at the end of the day my energy levels are non existent. And when he finally goes to the bed it’s my quiet time. But the problem is my anxiety. From the moment I close the door I start to think - what if he wakes up again? What if he starts crying? What if I have to make him sleep again? What if his crying is disturbing the neighbours? So I can’t properly just chill. I always have to listen and be in the alert mode.
Like I said usually he sleeps very good and even if he wakes up with a cry from a bad sleep or something it’s normal. He’s baby and just doing normal baby things. But in my mind it’s hard to accept and it’s driving me crazy.

I'm exactly the same .
I've dd who is 14 weeks now and so far she sleeps well at night but I get the night anxiety.
I had it with my first to

I really feel for you, I went through this as well. I ended having to get sleeping tablets prescribed to me because I stayed awake for three days in a row at one point and was acting 100% irrationally as a result (and the baby was totally fine through all of this )
I’ve been taking anti depressants that have a slight sedative included and they’ve helped me massively. I still worry a lot but no where near the extent as I was before and I haven’t had any extended periods of insomnia either. Sending

Oreoreo Thank you! It’s so hard isn’t it? sending you hugs

After he’s asleep I can’t even watch a movie, have a nice quiet evening with my partner or catch up on some TV. I’m constantly alert, waiting, expecting him to wake up with cry. And to be honest it doesn’t even happen that often.
And I don’t know how to deal with it, how to understand that’s perfectly normal even if he does so.

Sorry your feeling like this but know you’re no alone!
Do you have a camera to watch your LO? I have one for my DD and it helped me LOADS as I could see when she was starting to stir and either have peace of mind that she’d settled herself back to sleep (sometimes she’d cry and I’d rush in thinking she was awake and actually wake her up myself!) or I can pop upstairs give her a dummy or her blanket and she’s back to the land of nod.

I know the feeling. I think it’s just parenthood.