Nope, not baby having nightmares, mommy having nightmares!

Ever since Hailey was born I have been having one reoccurring and really weird nightmare. It can happen at any time of the night and or day, whenever I am sleeping. I’m think it is the result of being overtired.

Here’s how it plays out.

I am sleeping, but think I am feeding Hailey. I half wake up and think that I feel her leg and then try to find the rest of her body, because in my mind I was feeding her but we both fell asleep and now I can’t find her! I will literally throw away all pillows and blankets to find the baby and then wake up allt he way to realize that I was dreaming and I wasn’t actually feeding her.

Everytime I’m sleeping and wake up this is how I am woken up. It gives me such anxiety.

Last night I was treated to a new nightmare. I dreamed that I had been feeding Hailey and put her down to sleep in the living room but then I woke up and there was blankets and spit-up all over her face, so I freaked out and jumped off the couch.  Except I actually did this: I jumped out of my BED and thought in my sleepy state that I was in the living room and started freaking out because I couldn’t find the light switch and my baby was suffocating but I couldn’t see her to find her! I ran into my dresser, had no idea where I was and almost fell over. This woke Scott up and I’m pretty sure he thought I was crazy. It took me a bit to realize that I was a) actually in my bedroom and b) Hailey was sleeping soundly in her cradle at the foot of our bed.

(A sleeping Hailey at 5 days old)

Any other moms have this happen to them?