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Sudden exaggerated Moro reflex

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Ellabella114 · 24/02/2018 20:20

Hi everyone

I’m a little concerned, my daughter will be 5 weeks old tomorrow and has started to have an exaggerated Moro reflex when I put her down to change her. I noticed on it Thursday and now (Saturday) it is getting consistently worse. We never really put her down and at night she sleeps on my chest, as she has silent reflux and was 3 weeks early (so she is still wanting to be very close to us)- could this be that she is not used to being flat on her back? I’m really worried about this, has it happened to anyone else? I will ring the HV on Monday but would appreciate any advice in the meantime.

Thanks x

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cedoren · 24/02/2018 20:55

Is she your first? Definitely ask your HV, but all newborns have a strong startle reflex in my experience. That's why they are such bad sleepers!

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