Ok, So when my son was a newborn I used to wake at night every night worried I had my son in the bed. Some nights I would do this 4 or 5 times, I know this is normal and have spoken to many mums who said they also experienced this. However, my son is now 18 months old and I’m still doing it. But now it’s actually worse. I don’t do it as often but now that he is walking I wake up thinking he is running off the side of my bed or worse running out of my bedroom door towards the stairs. I actually hallucinate it. I wake and see him in danger and jump out of bed after him. Two incidents I have actually injured myself jumping from my bed into a wall I hurt my shoulder and a second time diving into the floor trying to catch him and getting carpet burn all over my face.
my son has been sleeping through the night since 10 months old and in his own bed.
has anyone experience this? I don’t know what to do to stop this from happening. I know he is safe in his bed but just can’t stop from waking in a panic.