18 month old was sick in the night and I didn’t know until the morning !

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I feel so awful - my little one (18 months old) was sick at some point last night and didn’t cry so I only found out when I saw sick all over the cot this morning 😭 I feel so awful !

I always assumed that a sick toddler would cry if they weren’t feeling well and want their mum.

is it normal for them to not cry?!?

Wow, I have a 9m old (bad sleeper) I was contemplating sleep training as I’ve just gone back to work and could do with the extra hours and reading this honestly hurt my heart! :( I am definitely not going to do that now.

It isn't true. Read all the posts refuting it, including mine.

My DS had really bad reflux and vomited multiple times a day/night he would do this all the time, both at night and during the day he would be playing on the floor in front of me or I would be pushing him in the pram and he wouldn’t make a noise I would just smell sick or look at him and he would be covered in it ! It was horrendous

As someone who's worked in attachment I think there are ways to sleep train without causing trauma or issues with attachment like the other poster is asserting. Most negative sleep training theories are really based on 'cry it out' where you put the child in bed and then leave them to cry themselves to sleep consistently which I would agree is detrimental unless you are at crisis point and sleep is number one priority for safety.

Casual vomit. Baby wasn’t bothered, don’t worry.

Nonsense

It’s not people being defensive, it’s people not accepting your nonsense, and huge leap based on what the OP actually said.
And I say this is as a co-sleeping mum of a 3 year old who has been cuddled to sleep every single night.

I did Ferber with my first child.
She was two years old at the time.

It only took two nights.

She is 42 now and doesn't remember it.

When she cried at night we always went in to her (after the sleep training) because it was so unusual for her to wake up and cry. She only did it when she was ill.

Some judgemental comments here. My ds was a deep sleeper and I do remember on one occasion when he was about 2 he threw up and went back to sleep. Throwing up can sometimes be relieving, so it may be that it didn't cause enough discomfort for your child to cry out.
Ds would definitely let us know if he wanted us to come in. We had a similar issue where his nappy would leak and he wouldn't wake straight away, but would grumble and stir a bit while sleeping so you had to really listen for it...

"Throwing up can sometimes be relieving, so it may be that it didn't cause enough discomfort for your child to cry out."

All of this. Especially if they are extra tired because they're feeling poorly their body will prioritise need for sleep.

It happens. One of mine was sick in the car once, they'd (three of them) had all nodded off on a long journey, and DH and I remarked that the fields were particularly smelly.

Reader, it wasn't smelly fields, it was barf, which we realised when one of the others woke up and said "mummy J sicked in the car!". He hadn't made a sound, just upchucked and then went to sleep!

I also remember my sister throwing up over the side of her cabin bed as a small child, not crying or waking anyone. Mum was quite upset on finding that in the morning.

Ok,I'm going to metaphorically hold your hand while I tell you two stories.

My DS was 10 months old and had surgery on his eyelid. I had been lecturer by my health visitor about always picking him up when he cried at night, so a couple of days after his surgery, I went in to his room, stroked his back a shushed him back to sleep in very little light. In the morning I went in to him to find his eyelid had split open,gunk from it was everywhere. Yeah, we took him back to hospital and he was on IV antibiotics for a while.

On another occasion, I had done a night shift in a residential home, you know, where I was solely responsible for looking after 11 frail and elderly people, my partner picked me up from work, told me my DS had fallen earlier but "seems ok now". I spent ½ an hour in the playground with him and his sister before dropping them both at school and going home to bed. Just prior to pick up I got a call telling me he had squealed in pain when getting up from the floor at carpet time at the end of the day. Oh yes, he'd been taken to school by me with a fracture.

Believe me when I say "We have all made mistakes. Anyone who says they haven't is either lying or deluded".