Bat Hearing - when does it end?

[MilkyChops]

Apparently my bat hearing is the only thing stopping me sleep at night. I wake up to DS every movement or groan and he's in his own bedroom, even with the baby monitor turned down a few notches I still wake. He's 5.5 months, getting good at self-settling And doesn't actually need me most of the time when he wakes.

When my OH is on baby night duty and sleeps in another room giving me our bedroom to myself and no baby monitor, DS only wakes him once or twice. Usually 3.30am for his dummy then between 5 and six for a BF.

The only thing stopping me sleeping is apparently me.

I've never been very good at getting back to sleep when I wake.

I find that foam earplugs help (available in Boots or any other chemist). They don't stop you hearing baby but they do dull-down the sounds so that you don't hear the little, tiny sounds.

I also like an eye mask with my ear plugs for greater sensory reduction.

My DS is 14, every time he talks in his sleep I hear him. Get used to not sleeping.

not sure it ever ends.

The upside is that I can can hear a pre-vomit groan or cough and be there waiting, bowl in hand, before the explosion happens.

godsave that made me laugh - DC and DH think I'm superhuman for exactly that. I know when my DS10 and DS8 get up for a wee in the night and they sleep two floors away from me.
Sorry, OP, it's just called Mum Hearing in our house so might be here to stay.

I'm still on alert with Dd2 she's 14, but I did lock my 17 year old out the other night and didn't wake to her loud knocking or her ringing my mobile. So I would say around the 16 mark.
Obviously it's not as bad as when they are little but I think when they are still young you just get used to broken sleep and get on with it.

Oh and heightened smell also. I'm two floors up from the kitchen and texted Dd1 at two in the morning asking where on earth she had got the pot noodle she was eating from. She was a bit

Sorry op mines still tuned in and he's nearly 17, I get up for a wee early hours and I still pop my head round the door to check he's still breathing.

there's a difference though with normal mumblings in his sleep which I hear and don't fully awake for, and the mum one word call which I'm instantly fully awake for.

I can also know what's been pilfered from the kitchen by sound alone

I used earplugs as my DH snores. When I first started sleeping away from DD I hardly got any sleep between DH's snoring and DD's sniffling.
I tried earplugs with the monitor on super loud in case, which was too loud. Now I normally use earplugs and have the volume down very low and often off, with doors ajar. If she's crying enough to need me there it'll wake me. She's 8 months.