Waking up at night thinking baby in bed with us!!!

[sunandmoon]

Does this happen only to me or to anybody else??? My baby is 8 months old now and since the day she was born, I wake up every night thinking she is in bed with us.(or sometimes I push my husband away thinking that he is sleeping on her or sometimes I think that he is our baby and I speak to him in a soft voice touching his face softly (he doesn't mind that much...)It is very tiring because I would wake up very worried! I always been a mad dreamer!!!

God I had forgotton about these dreams! I once pulled the bed away from the wall because "Ds is down there, he's getting squashed!"

He was in his cot, in his bedroom.

I also used to kip on the sofa, and wake up thinking I had dropped him - odd, as I never once fell asleep on the sofa with him!

A friend of mine was so off her head due to lack of sleep that she woke up and tried to breastfeed her husband.

Brilliant Pruni!!!!! Despite breastfeeding my pillow, I am glad I never did it with my husband...

hmmm, can't say I have ever had that happen to me. Dd has been in my bed since 4 months. She still is. If anything, she wakes me up with her burrowing. Never worried about crushing her either or SIDS. I must be in the minority.

this thread is fascinating.

For the first few weeks after ds was born, he slept mostly in his moses basket and I had this dream several times a night.

After that, we started co-sleeping (we still are, at 16mo) and although I frequently wake up convinced ds has stopped breathing, at least I know where he is .

IMHO co-sleeping has a lot of advantages over cot-sleeping and I guess this is one of them...

I had a vivid dream when I was 30something weeks pg. I woke up in a panic because I'd forgotten to feed the baby. Talk about planning ahead - baby didn't make an appearance for around another 6 weeks!!

yes I used to get this with dd1, that she was under the beclothes and I had to rummage around to find her. sort of a sleep walky kind of thing.
I don't get it with dd2 thought because she IS in with us every night

Just remembered this very, very freaky dream I had at the end of my pregnancy...

Dreamed that instead of giving birth to DS, he came 'off' my tummy and was still covered in thick baggy skin. Like a baby in a baby shaped 'bag of skin'. I was pushing him around in a pushchair in this state, feeling vaguely confused and embaressed.

Also, the first night home from the hospital, I'd gone so long without sleep that when I did eventually 'wake up' I was so disorianted I thought DH had hired a Wet Nurse!

Yeah me too, with all 3 of mine. I often fall back off to sleep while in bed breastfeeding, then wake up when he comes off, put him into bed, the perhaps an hour later wake up thinking he's fallen on the floor and really panicking because I can't remember putting him in bed!

Also pushing dh nearly out of bed because I thought he was about to roll over on the baby, and he was in his bed next to me!

One night a few weeks ago, in his sleep dh shouted, "your going to suffocate him".He felt if he was in the bed, then turned back over snoring( ds2 was in his bed next to us yet again!)
I think even when your asleep that protective instinct is there, and stong.