Toddler sick in the night

[Lavender14]

I'm not sure if this is normal or not but the guilt is eating me!

Ds was sick last night in his cot at some point during the night. I had checked in on him at about 11.30pm when I went to bed and l did hear him rouse a little at some point during the night, checked the monitor beside my bed and he was lying down sleeping again so left him to it. When I went in this morning at 6.30 to wake him, he'd obviously thrown up all his dinner and then just went back to sleep in it. I felt awful that I hadn't known and was really surprised that he didn't cry. Our monitor sits on the table beside his cot so we can see him clearly but not the whole of the cot and it's usually pretty good for sound. He's done this a few times in the car or at night when he's had a bad cough and has thrown up a little bit and he's never cried but this was a lot more than that and it's put the fear in me that I wouldn't hear him if he choked on it. Has anyone else's wee one done this? Is this normal? He's the same with a nappy, won't give any indication that it's dirty other than wait for me to smell it or notice that he's working on it!

Oh poor little man! How old is he? So my DS did get sick in his cot when he was about 1 1/2 and I felt exactly the same as you. I did go in there, not because he cried exactly, but I heard him sort of grunting through the monitor. When I went to check, he had been sick (quite a lot too),and he wasn’t fully awake either.

This only happened the one time, but it put the fear of god in me. My son also had oesophageal issues until around age 2 and would often bring up some food/milk, but only this one incident at night. I slept on his floor for a while after that, just to put my mind at rest.

The most important thing is, he is okay. You are a caring, loving Mother and sometimes guilt is a by product of that, unfortunately. Maybe camp out in his room, or set alarms on your phone so you can check in, if that helps put your mind at rest.

Also, you can order a bendy arm monitor holder from Amazon, so you can get the full view of his cot. But that depends on his age (my son started to pull the bendy arm as he got older).

Oh, and my boy didn’t care about having a full nappy either. It’s only when he moved into pants at two and half, he started to feel uncomfortable with wet.

Hope you’re okay Mumma x

Thanks so much, he's 1.5 as well. That's a great idea about the bendy arm for the monitor I'll have a look and see if ours is compatible because a better view would be great! I just had always thought he'd be upset and cry for something like that.