Any other mom's like this??

DD is almost 2 and I really hate our baby monitor. It interferes with something and is always making unnecessary noise. Her room is next to ours and lately when she wakes up I can hear her anyways. So I decided to stop using it. So wouldn't ya know, I can hear her crying in my head.... I get up to check and she's sound asleep. So i basically am half awake waiting for her to wake up. She usually sleeps thru the night but the past couple weeks she's been waking up - i think the neighbors wake her up being the loud ones that they are. I also have been noticing the mommy instinct - i wake up right before she does. It's like my body senses when she's gonna be up and crying - anyone else like this or am i just crazy?

I wake up within minutes before DS wakes up in the mornings, no matter how tired I am.

Quoting snglemama:" "

That is definitely me! LOL I am a constant worrier.

Quoting Peyton's~Mom:" I wake up within minutes before DS wakes up in the mornings, no matter how tired I am."

good to know i'm not the only one. idk how i do it, but yes no matter how early and how tired i am.

I'm the same way WITH the monitor. It was a huge problem for me and the lack of sleep from the "anticipatory anxiety" as coined by my therapist, is what led to PPD. I got it under control with meds but now that i'm pregnant it's back, just not as bad now that he's sleeping thru the night. I still struggle a lot though. I'd like to say it gets better, but for me it never did.I can't turn the monitor off yet bc DS is on the opposite side of the damn house

Quoting CRSx2Mommy:" I'm the same way WITH the monitor. It was a huge problem for me and the lack of sleep from the "anticipatory ... [snip!] ... to say it gets better, but for me it never did.I can't turn the monitor off yet bc DS is on the opposite side of the damn house"

yeah i have some anti-anxiety pills that i take as needed - i think i'm going to have to start those before i go to bed just so i can sleep! i've had it with her since she was born - always worried about something. first it was sids. then she got sick with meningitis at 1 month old, so then i constantly worried about everything once she came back home. then i worried about her suffocating in her crib. and now i worry about her blankets because she loves to have them around her neck and over her face. the blanket has holes in it so i know she can still breathe, but i still worry about it. and now we are transitioning her into a big girl bed. that should be fun....

Quoting mommy-in-a-blended-family:" yeah i have some anti-anxiety pills that i take as needed - i think i'm going to have to start those ... [snip!] ... can still breathe, but i still worry about it. and now we are transitioning her into a big girl bed. that should be fun.... "

haha you sound exactly like me. If it's not one thing its another. Motherhood  

Quoting CRSx2Mommy:" haha you sound exactly like me. If it's not one thing its another. Motherhood  "

most definitely