I woke up with my shirt over newborns face!!

[Kangel12323]

I was breastfeeding while sitting up on my bed and fell asleep. I feel terrible because I woke up and found my shirt over my 12w old face. I panicked and picked her up quickly and saw she was breathing but I wanted her to wake up because I was scared about rebreathing. I have terrible anxiety already so my ppa isn't helping. It was hard to wake her but she did wake for about 5 minutes after my alarm startled her during a diaper change. I was happy to see her awake and smiling but still super sleepy. Currently she's sleeping ( barely woke up ) and she's squirming, grunting, peaking and very active.. I just need reassurance that she's okay I guess. I have this idea in my head that co2 is slowly taking over.

[ItIsYou]

You need to take a moment and look at the bigger picture and make little changes to how you feed when your tired.
maybe feed half an hour earlier with you sitting up for the duration. Maybe you were just in comfy position.
Speak to your midwife/GP for advice

[Garman]

Google safe cosleeping and the Safe Sleep 7, that way you won’t have the risks of clothes in baby’s face or falling asleep sitting it up which can be very unsafe. Taking the safe precautions and setting up a deliberate safe sleep/breastsleeping zone is much easier way to get some decent sleep.

[TheShellBeach]

Your baby was hard to wake up because she was fast asleep.
Are you getting help for your anxiety?

[rwalker]

Re evaluate this tomorrow
the main thing now is making sure she alright which by what you’ve written she is

at the moment panic fear and anxiety are clouding your judgement

[InTheRainOnATrain]

Based on what you’ve written she sounds fine. The important thing is that you make changes to how you’re doing night feeds to ensure nothing like that ever happens again- get out of bed and go sit downstairs with the lights and TV on, if you have a partner get them to do a bottle for one feed so you can catch up on sleep, look at safe cosleeping and feeding lying down positions etc.

[TheShellBeach]

BTW OP - a12 week old baby isn't "newborn".

[Geebray]

Your shirt on her face is not a problem. Falling asleep while feeding and holding her is the problem. As PPs have said, you need to look into changing this.

[CarrotOfPeace]

Get out of bed to feed her