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grunting baby at night

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Clarabella · 22/08/2005 10:35

I'm new to the board, but hope you can help.
I had some terrible problems with my 5 week old DDs sleep last night. She was
grunting, whinging and kicking her legs manically from about 2am onwards - she never went to a full on bawl, but nobody got any sleep all the same. Winding didn't seem to bring anything up, and the only thing that would stop the grunting was holding her over our shoulder or lying her on her tummy on DPs chest. We tried infacol, but beyond that I'm stumped. Any ideas what it is?

also she seems to have bubbles on her lips during the day these days - is this normal or connected?

thanks in advance

Claire

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Tessiebear · 22/08/2005 10:44

Infacol takes a few days (use at every feed) to "kick in" as it were

aloha · 22/08/2005 10:44

All totally normal. My friend's SIL is a gp and she says that one of the main reasons people bring in their little babies is because they are noisy at night! They just are noisy little buggers, esp at first. It doens't mean anything and you don't have to anything if they aren't awake and unhappy.
Babies blow bubbles. Again, means nothing. She's fine.

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Clarabella · 22/08/2005 15:21

The trouble is that she seems in pain - the usual snufflings and grunts I am used to already. I've also been using infacol for several days now and it's not helping. That's why I'm not quite sure what to do next.

It'll be so much easier when she can tell me what is wrong :-)

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mogwai · 22/08/2005 16:41

my 7 week old daughter has been the same since she was about 2-3 weeks old, Clarabella. She writhes around the moses basket, grunting and seeming to have wind that I can't bring up.

I tilted the end of her moses basket by putting a pillow under it, slightly, this seemed to help a bit. She doesn't make any of these noises if she is turned onto her tummy, but of course, this isn't the best thing to do. I admit though, I have resorted to this a couple of times when I couldn't get any sleep. She was much quieter, but I worried like mad!

She seems to be settling down a bit now, the last few nights have been much quieter, so hopefully it's just something that will pass. I do sympathise - it looks and sounds so terrible

aloha · 22/08/2005 16:55

Clarabella, I'm sure that if she was in pain, she'd cry. Babies are quite simple that way!

newmumhelp · 22/08/2005 19:02

Think its just something they grow out of really. my 8 week old used to be the same, but now he's more settled, and his 'moaning time' is between about 6pm and 8pm. Then he goes to bed til 5.30am, wakes for a feed and goes back to sleep til about 7.30am. Maybe i've just been lucky though, but i have been told that all babies have a 'fussy' time, and apparently it goes at about 3 months. Keep smiling

Spoo · 22/08/2005 19:07

Very normal sounds like wind to me - my 7 mnth DS was the same. I moved him out of our room he was so noisy! only into the small room next door though. I wasn't getting any sleep.

KiwiKate · 23/08/2005 05:11

Our ds (now 2.3yo) was exactly the same. We moved him out of our room at 2 weeks because no one (other than him) got any sleep. We had one of those Hi-Sense monitors that go off if they stop breathing (see here , so we had no worries about sleeping ds on his tummy. Incidentally, the monitor was great. Never gave a false alarm, and never went off when he slept on his tummy. Did go off once when he was asleep on his back though (we had no other "high risk factors"). He was blue and not breathing. Luckily he started breathing again when I picked him up. It was 3am, and there is no way I would have known that he had stopped breathing (even if he had been in the room with us) as I was in a very deep sleep.

Some babies are just noisy. If they are in pain, they will let you know (they aren't shy about yelling). Also, it is normal for babies to move about in their sleep (adults do this too).

BTW - our ds had colic and infocol did not help at all. What did help was Woodwards Gripewater - but he was given this because he was screaming and wouldn't settle and could not get to sleep.

jonel · 01/09/2007 09:27

Hi,My 6 week old has had this extreme grunting problem,(which was also a big problem for us as it was so loud we couldnt sleep at all, even in an adjacent room). His grunting and groaning was accompanied by drawing legs up to chest, and arching back, he looked and sounded really uncomfortable and it was really upsetting to watch, though he did seem to be at least trying to sleep through it.We changed his milk from cows milk formula(Aptamil)to soya formula, which improved things during the daytime as he had been doing it a bit after feeds too, but nights were still bad, so we went to a paediatrician (gastro specialist) and he said he thought it was reflux, combined with possible milk allergy, and gave us medicine for reflux and a hypoallergenic formula. that was yesterday and last night he didnt grunt at all!!! Hallelujah! He slept soundly between feeds, and seemed much more contented , only drawback is the formula doesnt taste as nice and he is a little bit unsure if he likes it, but we hope he will get used to it.

Sidge · 01/09/2007 09:36

Sounds like wind to me, if it is in the bowel rather than the tummy it can't be burped out and you just have to wait for it to all bubble together so they can fart it out!

Gentle tummy massage can help (after feed before bedtime) and - don't shoot me down - sleeping on the tummy (get a monitor if it reassures you, we have an Angelcare one and it's ace).

Otherwise if baby is formula fed look at trying a different milk - I found SMA gave DD1 awful tummy ache, switched to Aptamil and had no more bother.

hotjemmamama · 27/03/2009 09:35

I am so glad i googled this problem as we have exactly the same probem and i ma now looking like a haggered hag! i've been to gp and been told to use infacol AND colief as its colic - the colief costs £10 a bottle and you need to use both before every feed. very time consuming as, if like me you are breastfeeding, you have to express some milk first, add the colief drops then give it to them - they suggest a spoon but my little man writhes so much thats impossible so been using a syringe. you can get coleif on prescription if you see your gp as it's pricey.
the gp said that the bubbles in his stomach were binding and evetually they would fart them out. he is not in pain but its sooo distressing!!!in the morning it all passes through either through loads of farting or lots of pooing. i'm tempted to move him out of the room as i need sleep - its getting to me and i feel awful not to mention looking like hell!

isit5pmyet · 04/09/2012 21:00

Gripe water in the old style glass bottle from selected Boots stores, is like magic. Our little boy screamed from 6pm to 8pm almost every night for the first month and the only thing that worked was Gripe water. He is a chubby exclusively bf 5 month old now who has no wind problems at all. First 3 months really are the toughest!

Piemistress · 05/09/2012 11:53

My dd was exactly the same up until a few days ago. She is 11 weeks. Stick with the Infacol, you can also try giving gripe water post feed after a
4 weeks (I think). We also occasionally used Colonsynth granules but don't think they did much. What seemed to really help was taking her to a cranial osteopath, it was great and after 3 sessions she had stopped but it might also have been that she just grew out of it. 3 months seems to be when it mostly stops. X

Ronnie1234 · 29/07/2017 07:08

I know this is an old thread but I'm going through this at mo with one month old grunting noises all through the night which seem to be worse from about 4 a.m not sure what to do?

Iusuallylovecake · 29/07/2017 09:01

Hi, my 7 week old makes all sort of grunting and groaning, kicks his legs seems to be in agony. We saw gp who said either silent reflux or colic! Tried colief and infant gaviscon, not much better so went back and now on prescription formula as think does milk intolerance!! Sooooo much better with the grunting and groaning!
Could just be a stage for your little one ronnie but worth talking to health visitor or gp just to rule out any intolerance. Good luck!!

Ronnie1234 · 29/07/2017 09:22

Is he awake when he does it? Does he do it in night only or day to?

Iusuallylovecake · 30/07/2017 11:01

Both really! He does it less now so not sure if it's a stage or a sign that he was uncomfortable. He does make a lot of strange noises but being a first time mum I've no idea if it's normal!
His colic was always worse in the night, we were running baths at 3am to try and ease the leg kicking and crying / groaning. Hopefully it's a stage for you and might pass soon

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