I thought he was dead, but he was just asleep.

[Enchanted]

you poor thing. How scary!!

I'm glad you're all ok! They sure can give us a fright!

[*Efjay*]

Isla did this to me the other day. I left all 3 sittin gon the couch eating 2 min noodles & I was sewing. I came out to check everyone, assuming there would be noodles everywhere & Isla was sitting but slumped over to the side. I freaked thinking she had choked on her noodles. As I rushed towards her I grabbed her arm to pull her up right & called her name. I knew she had just fallen asleep as she hadn't napped that day but I still went through the motion of OMG SHE IS DEAD! Poor little chook got the fright of her life being woken like that.

[Epacris]

You know it's funny now and I'm laughing about it, but I was seriously, absolutely terrified. I just thought, we've lost him, he's gone... how am I going to live without him?

Court - yeah I had the whole ambulance scene play out in my head too.

Sam - I could not believe how lifeless he felt, and my shaking was not so gentle (but no where near enough to hurt him).

Oshani - Thanks hun.

FJ - attack of the killer noodles! Glad your little lady is OK too.

Thanks guys

[aussienic]

Its scary when that happens isn't it..

glad it was just a false alarm though

[Michelle71]

I still hate the deeply sleeping baby. It is one of the reasons he is back in our room in the portacot I hate the cool skin and the not moving look. It does my head in.

FJ - I know it isn't funny but your story telling is. I have the image of Isla happily asleep with a full tummy of noodles being rudely awaken by one stressed out Mum

[Bathsheba]

Our babies have given us similar frights. I shook our first baby quite hard (not dangerously so.... poor sweetheart!) to rouse her and of course she was fine. This was when she was sleeping with us but later than usual. If she was sleeping in her cot in another room we'd be none the wiser. Rest assured that if your baby has ANY kind of pinkness in their face (complexion) that they are alive. Even pink lips. A deceased baby/person goes white/blueish very quickly... within minutes of low oxygen. So before you shake them awake look for some pink!!!!

ETA: just to add: I don't think co-sleeping is the issue here BTW... babies are more likely to die of SIDS in their own cots. Co-sleeping is nature's way of gently rousing them (as you move) which is meant to prevent too deep a sleep. Just from what I've read.

[Epacris]

Nic and Michelle, thanks.

Bath, thanks for posting that info about co-sleeping. I posted in here because DH and I don't like co-sleeping with DS (but we like co-sleeping with each other ). It's not our choice but the alternative, DS becoming terribly distressed, is not an option either (and yeah and we've tried everything else as well). My greatest fear is that he'll get caught under a pillow and suffocate, because he really likes to snuggle up to me and get close. But, like you said, even though we are asleep, we are aware of him and in tune with him. And that's why we don't like co-sleeping, because we don't get a good deep sleep. I'll be looking out for those sweet little pink lips! Thanks.

[Sequoia]

I still hate the deeply sleeping baby. It is one of the reasons he is back in our room in the portacot

We go away for the weekend fairly often, I got my dad to cut out a piece of cardboard to sit under DS's portacot mattress so I could put his BabySense monitor underneath it after having a couple of scares.

Paranoid, much?

[aussienic]

Not paranoid at all.. I do the same..

If you have the monitor you may as well use it my opinion.. We even take ours camping and stock up on batteries