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Sleep anxiety

Hi everyone, bit of a different one here. Hoping someone has maybe been through the same and can tell me how to cut it out. I don’t know what’s going on with me but my brain seems to have reverted back to thinking my baby is a newborn and I am on high alert at all times during the night. I am constantly and I mean constantly checking she is breathing. She has started sleeping through but it’s actually got to point where I am wakening her due to me jumping awake in my sleep and checking that she’s breathing. Last night was particularly bad, everytime I got into a deep sleep my body jolted me awake and it was like my brain was telling me how can you sleep right now?! I’m jumping up so suddenly that I’m wakening my partner too and he panics thinking something is wrong. I am absolutely fine during the day and generally quite chilled. It just seems to be night time. Is this something wrong with me?? Anyone any advice on how I can stop this?

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It could be the change in weather maybe - with our october babies we haven't yet experienced mum life with this strong of a heatwave? I'm a FTM and this has definitely made me more anxious and cautious over what he's wearing, body temperature, hydration, sleep sack togs, room temp and all the rest of it. I don't know if it's more because he's my first or just mum instincts not relaxing. Just my experience, not sure if it's the same for anyone else , but I hope you're ok!! X

It totally could be this! I find it really hard to articulate where it’s all of a sudden come from. She’s also started preferring to sleep on her side which freaks me out as I’m so worried about her rolling onto her face and not wakening up 😫 we have her room all ready for her to go into aswell as she really is starting to get too long for her next2me but with how I’m feeling just now I don’t think I will ever settle with her in a different room 😫 I feel so ridiculous!

I second Charlotte, I have been so much more anxious about his breathing & sleeping since it’s warm. I really struggled with post partum anxiety during the newborn stage and it’s reared its head slightly since the heat has picked up!

Hey I would really recommend buying a snuza! It’s only around £80 and you just clip on their nappy to register their breathing and would alarm should they stop. Takes a lot of anxiety away 🫶🏼

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