extreme grunting baby driving me crazy

[cari1979]

DS is 5 weeks and all he does is grunt. He tries to pass wind, he grunts. He tries to poo, he grunts. He feeds, he grunts. He sleeps, he grunts. Its the most god awful noise, like a wheezy baby elephant. Doc says normal behaviour and he'll grow out of it.....when?????!!!! He constantly strains for wind and pops loads and constantly wakes up from sleeps grunting. He's very difficult to wind after a bottle feed though. Does anyone else have or had this with their LO?'x

Sorry to hear this is getting to you. I would get him checked out again by a different Doctor as I really don't think grunting is normal. You could maybe speak to your midwife/health visitor about the wind. I'm guessing he's not had his 6 week check up yet, so perhaps book that and discuss all this when you have it. Hope things improve for you.

Agree get him checked again to make sure nothin is wrong.
But my DS was very grunty as a new born. He also had colic which meant he really struggled with wind and strained horribly to do a poo. We put him on comfort milk (ff) at around 2 weeks old which helped make it easier for him to poo. It sort of helped with the colic/wind issues too but in all honesty we just had to wait for him to outgrow that at around 13 weeks old.

In terms of the nighttime snuffling and grunting, my DH and I took the decision to put DS in his own room at 6 weeks old (yes I am aware this is against current SIDS advice). We did it because it had got to the stage where neither of us were sleeping even during the 2 hour periods of sleep DS was having, cos e was so noisy with his grunty snuffling. Best decision we could have made for our family but understand its be for everyone and you nee to make any decisions about where your newborn sleeps in full awareness of the SIDS risks.

*understand it's not for everyone. Stupid phone

We have our 6 week check in early Aug so Im gonna bring up my concerns then. Might give comfort milk a go before then to see if it helps. I really am praying he grows out of it coz there's nothing i can do to help him and that is the most distressing thing.

We have our 6 week check in early Aug so Im gonna bring up my concerns then. Might give comfort milk a go before then to see if it helps. I really am praying he grows out of it coz there's nothing i can do to help him and that is the most distressing thing.