Sleep feeding!!!

[Boobycino]

Not to be confused with dream feeding! I sleep walk and feed my baby!!! I'm not even 100% sure he's crying for a feed at night, as I never hear it, all I know it night after night, feed after feed, I'm waking up to look down and see a little baby boy already attached to my breast with no idea how he magically appeared by my side.

This is happening 3-5 times a night! Each and EVERY night!

My night time memories are almost exclusively of me wrapping him up and putting him back into his own cot in his own room and then magically, he's back in my bed! I'm almost suspecting that he can teleport!!! As I honestly have absolutely no memory of getting him at all for the last few months to be honest!!!! Its totally bizar!

The main issue with this is, even when I've conciously thought 'No, I need to make him wait and CIO" during the night I have no control over my actions, if I was aware of the fact I was getting up to feed him I could change it, but I'm not, so I cant!!!

WHAT CAN I DO??!?!?!?!

Has anyone else experienced this? Other mums have told me to stop feeding him in my bed or whatever, but how can I stop doing something when I'm doing it while I'm asleep?

I think I might just be mad!

[newmummaofbub]

Well I have no advice or anything but I thought I'd post to tell you that I too have found myself doing crazy things...

At least once everynight I wake up sitting up in my bed panicking trying to find my 7 week old in my lap so I can take her back to her cot ... and then I realise it's just the doona and she's already fast asleep in the cot :sleeping:.

The other night I woke up my husband trying to uncover him in my sleep cause I thought he was holding her and the doona was covering her face. Again... fast asleep in the cot :confused:.

I have wondered if I am going crazy :rolleyes: I have attributed my strange behaviour to that fact that I am some what paranoid about falling asleep with her in our bed and smothering her with the doona... but I haven't yet and am not likely to and... I think I'm just going mad.

Being a parent does strange things to us all I think in one way or another... good luck with the sleep feeding issue... I'm not much help sorry! :hugs:

[Boobycino]

Well I have no advice or anything but I thought I'd post to tell you that I too have found myself doing crazy things...

At least once everynight I wake up sitting up in my bed panicking trying to find my 7 week old in my lap so I can take her back to her cot ... and then I realise it's just the doona and she's already fast asleep in the cot :sleeping:.

The other night I woke up my husband trying to uncover him in my sleep cause I thought he was holding her and the doona was covering her face. Again... fast asleep in the cot :confused:.

I have wondered if I am going crazy :rolleyes: I have attributed my strange behaviour to that fact that I am some what paranoid about falling asleep with her in our bed and smothering her with the doona... but I haven't yet and am not likely to and... I think I'm just going mad.

Being a parent does strange things to us all I think in one way or another... good luck with the sleep feeding issue... I'm not much help sorry! :hugs:


Oh my! I've absolutely done that! I've searched frantically in the blankets to find Jasper and he wwas in his cot.

Another time I paniced because I could feel Jasper all the way under the covers next to my leg - it was my husbands leg pressed against mine!

Another time I scared the crap out of my hubby, at the time Jasper was about 6 weeks old, I'd gotten up to go to the toilet and when I came back, Jasper wasn't in his bassinet - and my hubby was cuddling the pillow - but it looked like Jasper could have been in underneath the pillow - I was half asleep and so fairly calm and asked my sleeping hubby "wheres the baby?" my hubby flew out of bed, he was on his feet before he'd opened his eyes!!! Half a second later I remembered I'd put Jasper in his cot!!! OMG!!! Poor hubby was so frightened he didn't go back to sleep for ages and he grumpily went and watched tv at like 3am - he seriously thought I'd lost the baby for a second!:laughing: Oopsie!

Ah well... Its good to know I'm not the only nutter out there!

[twotrunks]

Chel87, I know what you mean, I'm having the same thing with DS... and its worrying me cause one night I actually tried to twist his head the wrong way as I thought he was lying facing me to feed when he actually had his back to me IYKWIM... sounds horrid but I'm not I promise, just massively tired :)
We have him in our room so I moved the bed as far away as i could, so I would at least have to stand up to get him for a feed, but it always seems easier to feed him in bed, then it just goes on all night, in my sleep.
I wonder could you shut your door, or his, and put a bell on it, so each time you walk through you hear it and it might wake you up? Might sound really crazy, but even if you were to booby-trap (!) yourself, ie. put a chair in your way, or tie yourself loosely to the bed, so that you have to wake up on your way to bub's room.
Good luck!
TT

[mayhem]

ohhh yeah im going to put my hand up and be guilty here one night in particular stands out cause i remember going to bed after a last feed at around 1am or so and my sister was up with me watching tv so i know i was fully awake (well ) when i put my son into his cot and went to bed and i woke up the next morning as my 8 week old son was dropping out of my arms and luckly falling onto all the clothes and pillows beside the bed scared the absolute crap out of me and i slept on the floor for the next six months cause i couldn't handle the thougt of that happening again