Does this happen to anyone else? I swear I hear a baby crying even when there is no baby crying. I'm telling you, I have been sitting, holding David and Henderson is right there with me and for a second I will think "oh no! The baby is crying." Whoa. I think I might be losing my mind.
Now at night, my mommy ears are on full alert and I do hear every grunt, sneeze, cry, etc. I wish I could just turn the monitor off, but in my house we have a split floor plan. I would not be able to hear any sort of crying if I did that (not to mention we are addicted to our white noise machine and we run it on full blast). I'll do that crazy mommy wake up thing where your heart starts racing and you stop breathing for a minute so you can really "hear" if something is going on. I promise you that half of the time I do this, it is nothing. The other half of the time, I am sending up little prayers like "Dear Lord, please don't let my child wake up. Please allow him to soothe himself and settle back down!" Then, regardless of if I have to get up or not, it takes me 30 minutes to fall back asleep. This never happens to Stephen. Why is that? Anyway, so even though my baby might be sleeping through the night, I'm not. I remember this happening when Henderson was little bitty as well. SO I guess it gets better? Until they are teenagers?... I know I am going to be just like my Dad who never could fall asleep until we got home.
So now really, does this happen to anyone else?
4 comments:
Um, no. I used to be this way when Frank was little...especially in the old house. However, since he has been a year old, I hear nothing. It's really scary. I tune it out, somehow. I guess I will be back in your shoes when we have two! Then, we can just facebook back and forth at 3am!
Seriously, though, I did hear those imaginary baby cries when Frank was little, too. It drove me crazy!
I don't remember hearing imaginary baby cries, but I am convinced that you never really sleep again once you become a mom. I sleep, but part of me is always ready to react if she needs something.
I guess I have the "mommy ears" too!! Will hears nothing!!! Even when Mary Grace is screaming Will is snoring!!! At least I am not the only one!!!
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