https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:41:28 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-obsessively-check-on-your-newborn-after-you-put-them-down#post-28997 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:27:26 +0000 Mrs. Yoyo 28997@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't ... I might do it more if not for our super-creaky old wood floors. I would hate to wake him! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-obsessively-check-on-your-newborn-after-you-put-them-down#post-28357 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:14:48 +0000 erwoo 28357@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We bought a video monitor b/c my husband was obsessive about checking up on my son when he was a newborn...even now at 31 months he still constantly turns it on to see if he's okay, especially when he's sick. Highly recommend a video monitor for new mothers. They make some really nice ones these days. Our is not in production anymore but the video clarity rocks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-obsessively-check-on-your-newborn-after-you-put-them-down#post-28276 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:25:57 +0000 sbjmorgan 28276@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I used to, but I'm better about it now. I use her monitor a lot. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-obsessively-check-on-your-newborn-after-you-put-them-down#post-28228 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:53:30 +0000 L2sweetpea 28228@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have a video monitor and I still go to her room to check. Especially now she has her first cold I get so nervous so I go check or my husband does. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-obsessively-check-on-your-newborn-after-you-put-them-down#post-28224 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:41:19 +0000 chopsuey 28224@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have a video monitor! Hubs and I used to watch the monitor like hawks. haha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-obsessively-check-on-your-newborn-after-you-put-them-down#post-28207 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:55:54 +0000 BabyLove 28207@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep. I definitely do, more so int he beginning though. I checked on her after every.single.sound. A few weeks went by though and I was able to kinda discern what each sound was and know that it wasn't bad. She happens to be a nosy sleeper! I still wake up often just to look in on her, but that's more because she's just so freakin' cute! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-obsessively-check-on-your-newborn-after-you-put-them-down#post-22109 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 08:25:55 +0000 sandsandmore 22109@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I peek every time I walk by. I have a friend who's son died from SIDS, so I'm paranoid. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-obsessively-check-on-your-newborn-after-you-put-them-down#post-22106 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 07:46:49 +0000 Andrea 22106@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a video monitor so I look at that so we don't have to go into the room. In the early days I have gone in to reswaddle when it looked like it was covering some of her face. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-obsessively-check-on-your-newborn-after-you-put-them-down#post-22095 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 06:07:06 +0000 SAHM0811 22095@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup. They say you are less obsessive with babies after the first, but not for me. I've seen too much happen to patients at the hospital that I'm always checking up on her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-obsessively-check-on-your-newborn-after-you-put-them-down#post-22093 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:47:10 +0000 heffalump 22093@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My lo is four months old and I had to stop checking because she's such a light sleeper, my checking on her 80 times a night always startled her. Now I wish I had a video monitor, even though her room is a two second walk away! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-obsessively-check-on-your-newborn-after-you-put-them-down#post-22072 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 02:14:23 +0000 Ambergontrail 22072@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our newborn never let us put her down, until she was six weeks, so I didn't have to obsessively check her. :) But once I was able to put her down, she was in our room until 5 months or so, and she was a snorer so I never had to wonder if she was okay! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-obsessively-check-on-your-newborn-after-you-put-them-down#post-22069 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 02:10:08 +0000 Rubies 22069@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I used to obsessively check when LO slept for more than 5 hours at night because it was so rare, I thought she had died. But now it's the norm (yay!) so I'm good now. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-obsessively-check-on-your-newborn-after-you-put-them-down#post-22051 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:53:55 +0000 Red 22051@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, was too tired to check so I'd have my husband check, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-obsessively-check-on-your-newborn-after-you-put-them-down#post-22035 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:59:39 +0000 mrbee 22035@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When I put baby Olive down, I get so nervous that I swaddled her wrong or that somehow something will cover her mouth and prevent her from breathing. So I tend to obsessively check on her for the first 20 minutes or so after I put her down.</p> <p>After that time elapses, I relax a bit more. But it still makes me very nervous. I realize that it's not very rational. Better safe than sorry, I guess.</p> <p>Do you obsessively check on your newborn after you put them down? </p>