Hi Lactnetters.

 I've asked permission from one of our clients to send this out to you.  A
mother of twins, 10 days old, establishing breastfeeding (babies are gaining,
bilis are going down) has been waking up in a fright, thinking that she has
lost a baby in the bed somewhere.  She then proceeds to frantically search
the sheets and blankets looking for the baby.  A colleague said that it
happened to her with her baby and that she woke her husband up and they
looked in the bed and under the bed and finally  checked the crib and the
baby was there.  Mom said she must of gotten up and put the baby in crib and
gone back to sleep and forgotten that she'd done that.  I imagine it has to
do with adaptation to new role, fatigue, quality of sleep, etc. but with the
twins, and the number of hours/day breastfeeding, she may have an increased
risk for this hallucinating?  Any one with thoughts about this that I can
take back to her?  Thanks

Kathy Bodden .