Please help a first time mum!

[Lolarosemama]

Hey,
So currently my two day old babe is asleep and I can’t sleep coz I’m lying here listening and worrying what sleep noises are normal and what aren’t!!
There’s a mixture of total quiet, fast breathing, the odd cough or splutter (I get scared he’s sicking up and gonna choke?!) and whimpers.

Please tell me what’s normal and what’s not so I can sleep too!! X

Anyone?

Firstly, congratulations!! Sounds absolutely normal to me! They are so noisy in the early weeks and I remember having to put my hand on their chests to make sure they were breathing one minute and then they were snuffling like piglets the next! When is your midwife next visiting?

Ah, man. When I had my babies, I always wondered why nobody told you about the niuses/breathing. They don't breathe nicely at all. And my second baby, oh. My. He made. Noises like a farmyard animal. And he used tonwrigflenub the crib and bump his head on the top. From weeks old.

It makes it really, really difficult to know if you should panic or not. But, in the main, it's all very normal to hear rapid breathing, slower breathing, grunting, snuffling and pretty much anything else in between.

But it is a bit of a secret! I mean everyone rushes to tell you that your body goes through x, y, z changes, that you'll never sleep again, yada yada, yada. No one tells you that the baby will be asleep and you'll be staring at them wondering about their irregular breathing noises!

Congratulations. Enjoy your noisy snuggles.

Terrible typing. Hope you can get the gist!

Sounds really normal to me
Congrats on the lovely addition to your family and welcome to the world of emotions (including fear!!) that you never knew you could feel

Oh yes, normal. They grunt like piglets, and make all sort of outlandish noises whilst they’re tiny.

You get used to them, and start to tune them out unless you subconsciously hear something unusual or “wrong” with your baby’s noises (eg them throwing up) and that’s how you get sleep in the early days.

It's really normal and will settle down into regular sounding breathing in the next few weeks/months. No one tells you to expect it though! When my DD was newborn I'd lie awake for hours listening to her breath too, wondering if the grunts and odd noises were anything to worry about. It'll get easier - definitely trust your gut feeling if anything feels wrong/odd!

I apparently gave birth to a warthog last time. So noisy!

Congratulations!

Congrats! I was the same, didn't sleep a wink for the first 4 days 😂 what I didn't realise was babies breathing is very irregular and that's normal. They can do up to 60 breaths in one minute whereas an adult will usually do about 20. They can also not breath at all for up to 10 seconds occasionally 😳 all told by my hv, so take some deep breaths yourself and get that precious little sleep so you can be the best mum for your bundle of joy 🥰

Congratulations. It’s like sleeping in a farm yard. With my second I sometimes use to get DH to sleep in the room with the baby and I would go into a different room as it was only way I could sleep.

This is so normal. I think that's the feeling that means your being a good mama. I don't think this feeling fades, I still get it when I see my 10 year old cross the road and I want to hold her hand. I think you will learn to live with the feeling.
I found the late nights were the worst for feeling anxious, I felt like I was in a different time zone to everyone else and that made me feel very isolated.
Congratulations