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Newborn grunting - when does it end?

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lolaVie · 04/04/2023 08:48

DD is 4 weeks old and the noisiest sleeper that might ever have been. She’s our 2nd child but our DS is 6 so it’s been quite some time since he was a newborn. I can remember thinking he was a little piglet too but I’m sure not quite like his sister.

I know grunting in a newborn is normal and not concerned about her health wise: she feeds well, wees and poos are all normal, weight gain is fine and she’s content within herself. She is just like sleeping next to a cross between a farmyard and a race track. She seems content enough with her grunting and, after a minute or so, can settle back to a quiet sleep until the next time but I am sadly not so able to do this!

Hoping for a sense of light at the end of the tunnel! She’s 4 weeks now…surely this settles down soon?? all advice for how to settle her - or sleep in spite of her - welcome too (obviously she’s so little and so I’m more or less completely tuned into her even while I’m “sleeping”). She is FF but I know of plenty of BF babies also affected so advice welcome from all!

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CoalCraft · 04/04/2023 08:58

My first was awful for this. I used to say she sounded like a velociraptor! It carried on till around five months at which point I, in a sleep deprived haze, caved and moved her into her own room. Instant better sleep for me and actually also for her - think DH and I moving was disturbing her a bit.

Obviously I'm not suggesting you move your four week old! I don't have tips I'm afraid. People will tell you you'll learn to sleep through it but I never did. The only good sleep I got was when DH was downstairs with her. It was horrible. I did try noise cancelling headphones with white noise on but I had to have the white noise so loud it hurt!

My second also did it at first but I think it did settle down within eight weeks or so.

ohhollyfred · 04/04/2023 14:59

My 6 week is like this. Between 5am and 7am it is non stop!!! She is like a cow. I honestly am considering ear plugs 😂

Bizzyone · 04/04/2023 15:02

The piglet impressions calmed a bit at about 9 or 10wks... but now at 14wks I just lay there listening to him chomping on his hands or blabbering to himself so still noisy 🙈😅

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cadburyluver · 04/04/2023 19:13

For us around 6 months but then she was in her own room and it was more not waking to every groan and noise. We used to joke saying she sounded like a farm house animal!
Then we changed her milk 5.5 months and now she sleeps so silently! X

CattySam · 04/04/2023 19:15

I remember this so well. I’m sure the grunty newborn sleep helps to sell lots of unnecessary reflux and wind products!

Lasted to about 4 months with both of mine.

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