Growling and choking in sleep - any ideas?

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1-month-old DD sleeps peacefully and quietly during the day - in her carrycot and crib, or on me or DH - but in her crib at night strains, growls and chokes. She sounds like she's in pain:( I try to comfort her, rub her back, burp her etc. but nothing seems to help. Any ideas?

My ds used to choke regularly, especially when asleep, and he had silent reflux. Not sure if yours has any other symptoms of it but could be worth googling it? He was an unhappy little boy for a good few months and it made things hard seeing him in pain but thankfully he naturally grew out of it as time went on and by now (almost 10 months) it has all but disappeared. If it does turn out to be SR, there is medication but in our experience that just caused other side effects which we considered as bad so we took him off each one. Hope things get better for your little one x

I have a 7 week old DS who sleeps like a silent little angel during the day in his Moses basket and sounds like a farmyard of barks, grunts etc at night. No idea why, but he's fine and healthy. The straining bothered me but as he has no poo issues I guess it's just baby behaviour. I've been thinking it's like adult sleep cycles, light sleep is very active and deep sleep is quiet and still. It does annoy me a bit that he can nap so still I want to poke him to check breathing during the day, yet at 3am I can't sleep for his moaning and grunting. Babies are weird.

He eats fine and doesn't have a problem with reflux (no crying after feeds etc)

My 3 week old has done this for past 2 weeks, exactly the same, sound asleep 3-4 hours in daytime, struggle to go 2 hours at night with 1 of those hours spend grunting and squirming like in pain keeping me awake! mine is coupled with farts too so think it's trapped wind, went to docs for another issue and he said burp more and keep upright for longer after feeds, easier said than done at 3am tho eh! Giving wind relief massage a go when I can

That makes sense, I'm always trying to put him down after night feeds as soon as poss after a burp when there might be more, in the day I sit him up on my lap. I might have to just commit to spending 30 minutes making sure all the burps come up! Mine is also a terrible farter and it seems to upset him and he's waking up!

Hmm, all sounds identical to what I'm seeing with DD so must just be normal baby stuff. It's horrid when they seem to really be straining though. Are your babies breastfed too?

My DS is the same. Everyone tells me it's normal (ie nothing actually wrong with then) and it will improve as their deep sleep cycle extends. It's hard to listen to though!

I'm exactly the same, my lb is 4 weeks today, I changed from breast to bottle for different reasons but I've moticed now (especially at the 5am feed) that he drift back off to sleep. He constantly grunts moans and strains (like he needs a poo) he's not constipated either. I end up gettin up with him around 6am as none of us are getting a sleep. I'm not sure what it is.... But I know exactly what you mean x