Since becoming a mum have you slept with one eye open?

[MrRected]

I realised from another thread today, that some new mums are lucky enough to sleep deeply and that they are woken by their baby crying for xx minutes.

I am one of the unlucky ones who, since becoming a mum 11 years ago (3DC), has slept with one eye open. Almost pre-empting the cries in the night, or if they are ill etc.

Do you sleep soundly or with one eye open? Does this ever go away? Will I ever sleep soundly again?

I am a very light sleeper. I wake up to the slightest noise. Even my son coughing lightly. He is only 3 so it might change.

My hearing as got better as my eye sight as got worse

I do wake at the same time every morning though whether my son is home or not expecting to see him running in or shouting me.

I seem to magically wake up just before DD starts to cry. I don't know how it happens, but there's definitely a few moments of silence first. I can't get back to sleep until she's asleep either, even when DH is settling her.

That's weird. I was going to say that I somehow know when one of the kids is about to start crying but thought people would think I was a bit mad.

Glad to see it's not just me.

I sleep far less soundly than I used to before the DC. DH, on the other hand, sleeps a lot deeper than before :-(

My DH has to literally be kicked awake if I need him to get up to the kids at night. He's deaf in one ear and if he lies on his good ear a bomb could go off next to him before he wakes.

To his credit though, when the children were tiny babies, he trained himself not to sleep on his good ear and did help out a night - a LOT!

"He's deaf in one ear and if he lies on his good ear" that is me, but I still wake up at the slightest noise, and before the children are actually awake. They call me in their sleep too just to keep me on my toes!
Your DH is just being a DH, his deafness is no excuses believe me! I so wish it would help to be deaf in one ear, and stick the pillow right up the other, my DH is snoring at the moment, I might want to strangle him soon.

I do sleep with one eye open, and if DS is ill often with both eyes open and standing up... Oh no, wait, that's just being awake... Blame lack of sleep

My oldest DC is 10 now and I've always said I can wake up to the sound of their eyelids opening. I'm always awake just before they get up to go to the loo in the night and I stay awake until I hear them go back to bed and settle themselves back to sleep.

I'm obviously not getting a deep enough sleep though because I'm always knackered during the day.

One day we shall sleep ...

But perhaps not anytime soon......x

Same here. Used to sleep like the dead.

Now, I wake up when the children sleep talk or cough.
, or quietly fall out of bed I am permanently knackered and grumpy and the novelty has worn off.