Do you check on your child once they are asleep, and what's the point?

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Just wondering!

My DDs (2.4 and 0.7) are such light sleepers that I wouldn't dare. DD1 is ill at the moment and I had a crisis of conscience last night about whether I should check on her before we went to bed. But then I reasoned that if she needed us, got worse, or was sick, she would cry anyway, so we would go in then (and they both have monitors in their rooms so we would hear them wherever we were in the house). Surely all checking would achieve would be waking up a little girl who needed her sleep?

I can see that it would be lovely to look on your little sleeping angels (if they didn't wake up), but isn't that more for the parents' benefit rather than the child's? Or am I being a bad mum not looking in on them?

Both DDs have either vommed all over themselves or shat themselves at some point and not woken up so I check them for that reason. DD1 sometimes gets out of bed and falls asleep on the floor and despite being as cold as a stone would probably stay like that all night if I didn't shovel her back into bed.

DD is 7y and I still check in on her when I go up to bed. I will cover her over, as she always kicks her covers off. I always give her a kiss on the cheek, wish her sweet dreams and say I love you. She never wakes up. I just like to do it.

We check DS 7, DD 6 and DS 4 just before we go to bed. We cover them up, or unravel them as needed, I love seeing them asleep!

I have always checked in on DTs, now 6, just before I go to bed. If I forget, I have to get up and go in, some sort of superstitious nonsense no doubt! Obviously they're fine when they sleep elsewhere

Mine are 12,10 and 7 and I still check on all of them when I go to bed.

Dd2 is usually hanging half in, half out of bed so I adjust her covers. Ds has usually kicked his coveres off, so I recover him, and dd1, well she is normally absolutly fine, but it is nice to be in the same room as her for 30 seconds and us not be rowing lol.

Oddly, if I forget to check Dd1 or 2 then I just leave it, but I have to check ds. I also stand there until he either moves, or I hear him breathe. He is 7