Keep thinking DH is DD when I'm sleeping!

[dusty]

you'd think I'd have noticed that he was six feet tall and not a tiny baby?

Ditto here! It was so surreal once I realised it was DH, he really was this little baby to me LOL.

[Manhattan]

This still happens to me now, and DD is nearly 1! DH is quite a restless sleeper, and when he rolls around, I often think he is DD and reach out to grab him to stop him rolling off the bed. I honestly feel like it is DD and she is in danger. The weird thing is that DD has never really slept in our bed, so there is no reason why she would be rolling around in bed with us.

I put it down to being on duty 24/7. Our minds never really switch off, and we are thinking about our child's safety and well being all the time.

x

[~clover~]

When DD1 was a bub if DH touched me in bed I'd wake up freaked out thinking he'd rolled on her & would tell him to get off.
Then when she wasn't there I'd freak even more & start searching the bed for her. It would take a few minutes for me to realise what I was doing, check the cot & see that she was right where I left her...
We didn't co sleep with her either.

[dusty]

Its weird isn't it. I think the whole 24/7 thing has a lot to do with it. Trill I'd love to think it was deep sleep cause most of my sleep these days feels pretty light (ie ready to leap out of bed to attend to DD).

[Miss.September]

Ohhh hate it when you're dreaming something so real. I woke DH up in the middle of the night, yelling at him to give DD back, she was under the covers. Poor DH leapt up and went looking for her, pulling back every cover, while I slowly woke up, realised she was in the porta cot beside me and went....ahh....umm...honey? You're not the only one Dusty!

[melbel]

Yup I did similar things when C was little...would wake convinced he was in the bed and I couldn't find him...he was sound asleep in his hammock next to the bed.....I think maybe it is also a first time mummy hormone thingy.....maybe we are programmed even when asleep to be protecting our young