Parents of noisy babies?

[jessifleur]

Anyone else have a noisy baby? DS2 is 5 weeks and actually sleeps ok at night, only waking crying to feed (every hour to 3 hours depending on my luck!) But he's so loud I can't really sleep through the cacophony of sounds he makes: grizzling, straining, laughing, gurgling, growling, snuffling, snoring, squeaking... all night long! These are not newborn coos, he's quite a bruiser and makes sounds that match his size! Hoping I just get used to it - I've got DH snoring on the other side and I usually sleep through that

They are quite nosy anyway.
And then I think our brains reconfigure to amplify the baby grunts.

My two both sounded like dinosaurs at night! At least you know they're alive (that's what I used to tell myself).

My 2 week old is so noisy I keep getting up to feed him. Only he's sound asleep and won't drink because he's not hungry!

Oh god I remember that! We co slept and I had to wear ear plugs to at least mildly block out the grunting farm animal noises! The thing is it will pass -- I think around 10 weeks there was a significant decrease in noise and by 12 weeks he started to sleep quietly :)

This has reminded me that DTs used to grunt and squeak like a pair of boars, they were so loud I couldn't sleep even when they weren't crying! I used ear plugs in the end, the foam ones, enough to cut out the snorting but not enough I couldn't hear if they cried or woke up.

I wear ear plugs

So apparently I can sleep through DH drunkenly falling into bed but wake up at a sniffle from DS2...

I have an app on my phone that plays rain sounds, cuts up the gurgles and neibours and stuff, though I would still hear crying etc.

DS is 4 weeks and the same. Annoying thing is that he's adorably peaceful when he sleeps during the day.

I personally think mothers are tuned into hear babies in the early days and we are programmed to tune out partners.

DD was like that, we put her in her own room quite quickly (just beside ours, with doors open & monitor)... worked out beautifully, she started sleeping through shortly afterwards (she was FFed if that makes a difference)

My first was so fucking noisy we played the radio wave sounds to drown him out. Dc2 is so quite we spent 3 months thinking she had lost her voice