Anyone else do this?

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I randomly get paranoid so I check my daughter when she's sleeping to make sure that she's breathing. Well i give myself a heart attack sometimes because I'll put my hand on her tummy and it doesn't feel like she's breathing. Then in a panic I give her a little shake while my hand is on her stomach and she doesn't move! Then I pick her up and she starts fussing. Like "mom, why did you wake me?!" She's 12 weeks old now and I'm still not used to it! Scares the shit out of me.

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I have anxiety issues and I would get so bad that I would pause my showers to run out and check him - absolutely convinced something bad had happened to him. I ended up purchasing a Snuza which is a device that clips on to their diaper and monitors their breathing. If there is any lapse, an alarm goes off. You can see a little green light blink with each breath, and if an apnea event happened (when they took a long pause but resumed breathing) the light turns orange and vibrates to rouse them. If it happens several times it will sound the alarm to tell you your baby is having trouble. I had my son next to me in his pack and play for his first year, and he wore that thing for the first 6 months of his life. Let me tell you, looking over and seeing the little green light (you could see it barely blink under the pajama) knowing he was breathing and I didn’t need to get up to check him... it FINALLY brought me peace. I knew I could shower and I would hear an alarm if something was wrong. It was honestly the best purchase simply for the fact that it made me less paranoid.

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I babysit for a 6 month old and he takes like a half hour nap. I check on him twice usually. I can only imagine how I'll be when my little one is born!

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My dad used to do this with my brother and I swear my mom is still mad at him for it 😂 He would get nervous, wake my brother up (first kid who is now 34 lol) and fall back asleep while my mom calmed my brother down. 
Honestly I'll probably be the same way though! When I babysit my nephews I check on them so often!

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So me!

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My son just turned two and I still do this 😂

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Exactly why I bought the Owlet monitor. It’s a pulse oximeter that goes on the baby’s foot and keeps track of heart rate and oxygen levels. It will sound an alarm to the base if anything goes out of normal ranges. It has an app too so you can check on the baby’s vitals from another room.
The base pulses green when everything is normal. We just moved our 6 month old to her own room tonight and the base stayed in our room. Waking up and seeing it green helps me so much!

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I did the same thing! Maybe it's just me but facts/statistics calm me down and when I finally looked at the SIDS stats it says that only .5% of infant deaths are SIDS and there are certain factors that lower that percentage (race, if you bed share, if you breastfeed, smoke, etc). It calmed my fear knowing that babies more than likely don't just randomly stop breathing and never start again. Ever since I read that I've been able to sleep at night and she's been in her cosleeper and sleeps great! I also watched a video about how one lady wants SIDS changed to safe sleep because a lot of SIDS cases are actually cases where safe sleep was not going on. There's always an outlier and that is in the back of my mind but I needed sleep at night and my baby needed sleep so I had to get to peace of mind! 😆

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You could just stick your finger under her nose / mouth and feel if there's any air coming out.  You wouldn't have to wake her that way.  (Beware sometimes the breathing is a bit irregular when babies are little but that's normal)

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my daughter is almost damn near 2 and to this DAY I do it lol

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My daughter is almost 18 months and I still do this 😂

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