Waking up thinking baby is in the bed

I feel like I’m going crazy, every single night I’m waking up thinking my baby is in the bed with me and my partner. I literally try and push my partner out the bed thinking that he’s laying on her. Also I found myself a few times cradling the bedsheets thinking it’s her when she’s in the crib. Is anyone else going through this?
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I had this a few weeks ago! I felt paralysed as I was convinced he was on me when I woke up and I didn’t know where so I was scared to move. It’s eased off now but was such a strange feeling. Of course he was always safe and sound in his next to me so it was completely irrational!

I keep doing this! It’s crazy I feel like I’m loosing it😂

This must be really scary for you in those moments. Hope this soon stops for you xx

I have had this a few times, also woke up wondering where he is when an hour before I saw my partner take him downstairs. I think it’s completely normal even though it is very annoying x

Not every night but yes quite often I wake in a huge panic thinking he’s in the bed somewhere even though he’s always safely back in his next to me 🙈 x

I have this every night too and found myself cradling nothing at 5am yesterday morning 🙈. I wonder how long this goes on for

I’m having this a few times a night as well. Hope it stops soon because it’s such a horrible feeling x

In the first few weeks I did this. It was horrible. I'd wake up and panic and just shout where is he!? And pat the bed down. He would be safely in my partners arms. Sleep exhaustion is the devil!

Yes! It's called phantom baby. Totally normal, though so stressful. I'm 12 weeks pp and it's been less in the past couple of weeks, but if I am stressed for other reasons or have not had a lot of sleep it'll happen. My husband had it too.

Quite often I wake up thinking I've fallen asleep with them on me and go looking for her only to find she's in the next to me. I have a bit of a fear of co-sleeping so have put it down to that

Yes. Some nights i wake up lifting my partners arm up thinking it’s the baby or panicking. It’s horrible

You’ll laugh at this .. I once woke up cradling my swollen boob thinking it was my babies head .. he’s 6 months old now and I still have frequent moments of thinking he’s laying on me and so I cradle a pillow and I can actually see him! It’s insane and it’s not gone away for me x

I have this too. Wake up cradling (and sometimes patting) the duvet thinking I am holding my boy. 😅

@Charlotte Southgate literally! My baby is sleeping through the night but I feel sleep deprived because of this. It’s such a weird experience 😂

@Kate 😂 least I’m not the only one waking up cradling anything but your baby. I hope it doesn’t last much longer but I feel like it’s getting worse

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@Amanda 😂 ah bless you, hopefully it goes away for you soon. I can’t imagine going through it for 6 months!

Yep! It’s pure panic

I do this! I bolt upright in bed and pat around frantically thinking I’ve lost her in the sheets! And other times if I haven’t realised that she’s in her bassinet I’ll try scooping up the sheets or my partners feet! I’ve never co slept either but my brain is so convincing

@Jessica I do exactly the same. My partner wakes up so confused why I’m pushing him around paha

I had this exact thing except i woke up thinking that I had fell asleep while she was on me and she had fell off the bed in the tiny gap at the top of the bed between the next to me and the space we have to leave so we can open the door. I used to wake in a panic and check the floor next to the bed and then looked in the next to me and she was fast asleep and I thought ‘when did I put her down again?’ 🤣

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