hearing things

[Ragdoll]

i heard him cry today when i got back from the day unit but when i looked he was asleep. i can hear it in my head though sometimes, really clearly, real enough that i check on him but hes not crying.

[Margo]

You just had a baby. Its stressful, tiring, exillerating and amazing and scary and OMG and just.............

Perhaps its nerves. Heightened senses towards your baby. The slightest noise and you interpret it as something else.

I bet you are exhausted too and this can play tricks on your mind.

Perhaps the mums can help.

Be good

Love
Matthew xxx

[Merc]

if it helps, i went thru the same....and also heard (i SWORE i did!!) , her choking, coughing awould run to check.It eased as i got used to her and used to this enormous job i had taken on.

Its very overwhelming the fact that YOU created a LIFE....

it DOES get better and less scary
pm anytime ok???
luv
romp

[bigmouth]

i went through the same and I would wake up and think that she was in bed with me when she was in the other room with her dad and then I was convinced she'd been taken...
I think it was just total exhaustion in the first few weeks and as Romp says it is overwhelmiong but will get easier

[Stellata]

It can echo, you are highly attuned to his cries, and hold that sound in your mind..
I know I had that a lot when my flatmates' baby was very young [and he's not even my own, lol!]
I know for me it's because of my own early stuff, from when I was a baby and left to cry in the SCBU. Crying sets of echoes in my head.