How often do you check on LO?

heatherchelle · February 2010

How often do you check on LO during the night? What about naps?

It seems like every time I sneak in to check on her she wakes within an hour. I can't not check on her at all, but I'm wondering if I'm being overly paranoid and checking on her too often.

mbs427 · February 2010

Usually just before we go to bed...

BrendaK · February 2010

When she first started sleeping on her stomach (there was no way around it), I was super-anal about checking on her and feeling her back (to make sure she was breathing!), and I'd check on her a couple of times during the night.

Now... I usually don't check on her at all. Our floor has a particular creak in it outside her door and she's in-tune to the fact that if it creaks, someone's standing there and she's instantly awake.

lemen99 · February 2010

I don't check on him after I lay him down for a nap or bed. Ryan checks on him once before we go to bed if he's home.

NDwife07 · February 2010

Right before we go to bed, and if I happen to wake up during the night and it's later than her normal middle-of-the-night wake-up. Usually I try to talk myself out of going to check, but then I figure it's better to be safe than sorry!

Bride7-14-07 · February 2010

I will check on them before bed and that is all. We have a video monitor that I check if I wake up during the night.

fruitcakes · February 2010

I check once or twice before going to bed, then once when I get up in the morning if she's not awake yet.

Like Brenda, I checked probably no less than 10x when she started sleeping on her belly.

heatherchelle · February 2010

My real problem is that I've been wrapping Isabella in a blanket fr naps recently. She went from 30 minute naps to two hour naps after starting this. Now that she's sick, she sleeps a lot better if we do this at night too. The blanket freaks me out though.

Maybe I should just break down and but a video monitor so I can at least see that the blanket isn't covering her face.

shauna060708 · February 2010

heatherchelle:

My real problem is that I've been wrapping Isabella in a blanket fr naps recently. She went from 30 minute naps to two hour naps after starting this. Now that she's sick, she sleeps a lot better if we do this at night too. The blanket freaks me out though.

Maybe I should just break down and but a video monitor so I can at least see that the blanket isn't covering her face.

Do you think that one of those sleep bags (Halo or Woombie) would do the same thing for you? We use those instead of blankets, for now anyway, so I don't worry as much.

IU_baby · February 2010

Once before I go to bed. If he sleeps unusually late in the mornings, I'll check on him again then, but it's a rare event.

heatherchelle · February 2010

shauna060708:
heatherchelle:

My real problem is that I've been wrapping Isabella in a blanket fr naps recently. She went from 30 minute naps to two hour naps after starting this. Now that she's sick, she sleeps a lot better if we do this at night too. The blanket freaks me out though.

Maybe I should just break down and but a video monitor so I can at least see that the blanket isn't covering her face.

Do you think that one of those sleep bags (Halo or Woombie) would do the same thing for you? We use those instead of blankets, for now anyway, so I don't worry as much.

I think she needs to feel tight wrapped. If the blanket is too loose she wakes up earlier. I don't mind as much with naps because it is easier to check on her, but I'm not that comfortable with it at night. However, right now she'll only sleep wrapped in a blanket or being held by one of us, and then we don't sleep. I'm doing it not only for our sanity, but so she can actually get some rest. She has a sinus infection and I feel like she really needs the rest to get better.

MrsJMB · February 2010

I typically don't check on her at either time. She generally lets me know when she needs something. I probably stopped checking around 4 months. DH always goes in before he goes to work and before he comes to bed though.