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  Nah, you go over there, stare for a minute to verify they're breathing normally, then creep away. 
  Then you hear sounds and accidentally wake them up while they're doing their active sleeping. 
  It's a vicious cycle of self inflicted sleep deprivation.
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  Every time I take a shower I hear the faint sound of my kids crying for help. They are fine ...but my brain loves to convince itself the sounds in the walls and pipes are my kids  in danger when I'm in vulnerable places.
  Edit I am curious how many males experience this.  I hear this happens a lot with mothers but as a dad myself, I hear this all the time.  My wife no longer hears it but with kids at 12/6 I occasionally hear "daaaad" or "hellllp" or I am convinced I heard a window break or something broke and I have to get out and check it out. >
  
  Phantom cries while in the shower are so bizarre. >
  
  What that's a thing? ಠ_ಠ >
  
  My kid is a year and a half old and it's much less common now, but yes. I will occasionally hear him cry while in the shower even when I have his monitor right there and he's asleep. >
  
  The baby monitor is just something additional to obsess over. Especially when they're lying still, then you gotta go wake them up because they're too still.