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@mediagirl: YES! My DH and I both woke up in the first few weeks frantic that DS was in our bed (we don't co-sleep). I also had the forgetful feedings! DS is almost 6 weeks and last night went to bed at 9:30 (so did I) and got up at 1:30 and 5 - so it definitely gets a little better!

OMG YES.
I went back to work at 7 weeks and I fall asleep feeding him most of the time. I almost fall asleep at work, I fumble around getting ready in the morning. I lose my keys and debit card on almost a daily basis.
I hope this gets better someday! lol

We did cosleep some, so for me it wasn't a totally irrational fear, but at least once a night most nights until recently I woke up and my first thought was "Where's the baby?!" because, like @pointybird I couldn't remember putting him back in his crib. I always figured it out without checking, but it resulted in a few seconds of panic.

@mediagirl: that happened to me ALL the time. Plus I have a cat who sleeps with me, so I would think that the cat was my baby. The other thing that would happen is that I would wake up hearing Nico crying in his crib and think "how is that possible, as he is on me and feeding right now". Nope, he was indeed in his crib.

Yea! I always woke up in a panic thinking that I dropped her....even though I had not even fallen asleep while holding her. I think you're just holding the baby so much in the early days that you get this empty feeling if they are not there.

Oh my gosh, I never coslept with Baby Y and I would constantly jolt myself awake and often hit my husband because I was frantically looking for the baby, who I thought had fallen out of bed. You're not alone.

Yes! I've heard this from others too. I never co-slept w/ baby at all (and didn't nurse all that much either b/c of supply issues), and yet I would often wake up during those early weeks convinced that I had fallen asleep nursing, and that baby must be suffocating under the covers that were pulled up to my neck. It's a very disturbing sensation, but it will pass.

OMG, YES! So glad to know I'm not alone! During the first couple months, I'd wake up in a panic because I would remember nursing her but not putting her back. I'd frantically jump out of bed and rush to the crib, just praying that she was there (she always was!). Hahaha. It's getting better now that LO is sleeping more, but I still haven't gotten a full night's sleep in God only knows how long, so I'm always really, really out of it. Sometimes I can't remember which toothbrush is mine and which is DH's. I find myself holding my prenatal vitamin container and I can never remember if I just took one or not. I've tried to pay for things with my driver's license.

I miss sleep