2 week old thrashing and grunting in sleep

[BessieBye]

Evening
My baby girl is 2 weeks old and constantly grunts and thrashes in her sleep… but only in her next2me crib.
She is asleep, her eyes are closed, she doesn’t cry & doesn’t seem in pain.. however I can’t sleep when she does it. It’s driving me crazy because I am so exhausted 😔

Anyone had similar and anyone know why she just does it in her crib? She slept 7.30-10.30pm in her pram downstairs (hates the Moses basket) and didn’t make a peep in 3 hours.
Is it because the next2me is quite wide so she feels less secure?

Would love to know I’m not alone. HV told me to try infacol but she winds just nicely every feed. Wee & poo both seem normal too.

Need to be reassured this will go one day 😢 I feel so guilty

It does sound pretty normal, unfortunately. You could try very gently laying a hand in her tummy fur a little while. to see if that helps her settle for a bit.

My baby did this! It was literally like I was sleeping in a farm! So bizarre. I remember reading so many people saying the same thing! Don't worry it's normal for them to make abit of noise they grow out of it! Also I found dentinox helped with any colic/wind better than infacol did if that's of any help.

Thank you guys.. I’m glad I’m not alone and that it sounds relatively normal. Suppose I’ll just have to ride it out til she grows out of it! I’ve had zero sleep because of the noises haha. Not even because she won’t settle or because she cries… just the noise and the thrashing!!

TOTALLY normal. My DC1 did this. After 6 weeks I couldn’t handle it anymore because “sleep when the baby sleeps” was impossible with her piggy grunts all night! I ended up having to move her into her own room, despite the advice to keep babies with their parents the first few months. Thankfully we all slept better after that! By around 4 months I think she’d grown out of it.

My other two DC weren’t quite so bad, and I was Able to keep them in my room longer. But “sleeping like a baby” is a ridiculous expression unless you mean noisily sleeping for two hour stretches!

It’s not because of the next2me, it’s because they are always more settled and quiet in that first stretch of the night. If you’d put her in the next2me at 7.30 she’d have slept quietly there till 10.30

I suggest trying earplugs - you will still hear her if she cries but will block the grunting

Had a baby that did that here too. It’s awful, I also could not sleep through it. She stopped by 8 weeks but it was terrible & all the people saying “newborns are noisy sleepers” were not helpful!! Some babies make little snuggling noises... and some sound like farm animals.

Pediatrician friend said it’s just due to digestive system figuring out how to work.

My baby is exactly the same at the moment so I'm glad to hear it's not just us! He has a lot of gas which we're using infacol and lots of bicycle kicks to help with. We're also swaddling which has reduced the thashing somewhat although not the snorty noises!

Our DD was exactly the same. Luckily she is now 8 weeks and has grown out of it. Me and my partner took turns with the nightshift. So I would do until 330am/4am then we we swap. That ensured that we both got at least a good number of hours solid sleep every night. It made a huge difference to us.
It will stop soon, we also found she done it more when swaddled so we used a sleeping bag and she was much better. She loves her sleeping bag and now gets excited when I put it on her at night.

Thanks everyone!!!

She is still under 9lb so can’t use a sleeping bag yet but praying when she can (which I hope is soon), the thrashing stops!!!
8 weeks doesn’t sound too bad. We’re currently at week 3!

@Notyoregularmum me and my partner have been doing the same, however he is back to work now and works 3 shifts. This week is night shift for him so it’s all on me during the night, but when he gets in at 7.. he takes her for a couple of hours, therefore I get some sleep and it does make the world of difference!

Hats off to those who parent alone. A whole new level of respect for them.

My boy was like a dinosaur roaring and grunting all night. Then he'd thrash about. Sometimes he'd do a huge parp and then settle down a bit. Was cute! He's 12 now and still chats away and makes creaks in his sleep...and parps of course...

@BessieBye you can get newborn baby sleeping bags, our was a tiny baby sleeping bag (upto 7.5lbs) to start with and then weve just bought bigger and bigger as she’s grown.

Yeah the first few weeks are most definitely the hardest (well I thought so) but now is so different.

I am the same as you, I honestly don’t know how people do it on their own! Superwomen 😂