How often do you check your sleeping baby?

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Just wondering. Our 4mo has just gone in her own room as she's outgrown moses basket and cot won't fit in our room. I know official guidelines are to be in your room for six months but she loves her cot - she really stretches out in it.

We have a baby monitor for when we are downstairs as the bedrooms are upstairs but if she's asleep obviously it doesn't make any noise. Our room is next to hers so when we're in bed we don't need the monitor as I hear anything.

But wondered how often do you check your babies? I am still in paranoid stage so checking about every hour or so - just poking head round door and looking for her chest rising and falling. Of course when we are asleep if she sleeps through, which she does some nights and not others, there can be six hour stretches where she's not checked.

I check every time I have to go upstairs i.e. to the loo or to put washing away. I have a terrible habit of having to touch DD to make sure shes still breathing etc. Once I'm in bed though she's not checked again until morning unless she wakes up.

Ds is 17 months and every time I go upstairs, or when I wake during the night I check him. I also still use an angelcare monitor.

our bathroom is downstairs so we don't go up as a matter of course in the evening, though like I say I am checking every hour or so.

I don't check on mine at all (10mo) and never have since she went into her own room at 6mo.

We do have a breathing monitor and can see the light flashing, although I know they aren't infallible.

When she falls asleep in the puschair I am constantly putting my hand on her tummy to check she's breathing though

when i go up for a wee, and before i go to bed.
the little toad normally does that thing where they hold their breath, making my blood run cold, at least once an evening.

I've never checked either of mine - scared of waking them up!

Dont check on mine, sometimes will stick my head round the door when i go to bed.
I dont really get all the obsessive checking.

I checked DD1 (6) all the time, every time I got upstairs or woke during the night when she was little, twice a night at least until she was 5 and a big bit . I stopped when I realised I never checked DD2 (15 months and a very light sleeper)

I used to check DD when I was going upstairs and then when I went to bed, but she started waking up and it took ages to get her back to sleep so for the sake of my sanity I stopped.
Now she's 3 and goes to sleep without any problems so I'll occasionally poke my head round her door to have a peek. :)

I check my 6 mo DS whenever i go in the room - which varies - and also place my hand on his chest when he's sleeping in his buggy if i can't see his chest rise and fall. I'm also not content when i go to bed until i hear him grunt or sigh - then i can go to sleep peacefully! I not really neurotic, honest.

I check on my 8 month old when he goes quiet (he usually plays in his cot for 15 minutes or so before falling asleep) and again when I go to bed. Don't have a monitor.