Grunting, meeping, noisy baby

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Hi,

So I understand that newborn's can be a bit noisy but my DS is coming up in three weeks old and every time I put him down at night he's a noisy wee beast! He's usually OK most of the day naps sometimes a little noisy. He murmurs, meeps, grunts and its driving me mad. Does anyone have any advice to improve this or any idea when it might stop?

TIA :)

Oh gosh my little boy was such a loud grunter at bedtime! There wasn't anything I could do for him that made it go away but it did suddenly just stop when he was 14 weeks old!! ❤️Xx

Same as @Dexy2020

My daughter was horrific.. she was in her own room at 3 weeks on the advice of the HV because I was so sleep deprived.

DS was like this. He was then diagnosed with reflux and we put the cot on a small incline and it help a lot. It turns out he was just incredibly uncomfortable and that was what was making him grunt

Earplugs... you’ll hear when they really need you but less of the farm noises in between

I used to go and sleep on the sofa for a few hours each night and leave our noisy sleeper with my fast asleep DH. I’d still hear if he woke and cried.

He was quieter by 3-4 months.

I second the ear plugs, I used to put in one on the ear that wasn't on the pillow and it would muffle the snorting sounds but if DD made a noise louder than a grunt id hear her immediately.
And I didn't feel guilty at all because DP seemed to have in-built bloody ear plugs and he would barely stir at all of her grunting while I was wide awake at every move!

Oh my god we used to call DS2 piggy - the evening of the first day he was born I had to send him out with the midwives because he didn't stop grunting, farting and snoring and I was shattered.

They said he spent the night with a new baby girl afflicted with the same piggy attributes, and apparently they kept each other entertained with baby farts and squeaks.

Which at least gave me 6 hours of sleep...

Strokethefurrywall, that story really tickled me 🤣 my DS is also known as Piggy for similar reasons!

I think a lot of babies are very noisy at this stage, it did settle down by about 12 weeks.

DS is 17 weeks old and even noisier than when he was a newborn as now he thrashes around and leg thumps to try and self-soothe himself back to sleep. He will be going into his own room soon!