5 week old stirring in her sleep

[Mumtobe2023]

So our beautiful girl is 5 weeks old. She is exclusively bottle fed. We put her down around 10.30pm in the next to me crib same time as our bed time, and she has formula feed just before sleep. She wakes around 3am for another feed, and then we put her back down and she will then normally wake around 5.30am. Last couple of nights we have noticed she is stirring in her sleep. Squeaking, and stretching, but not whining or crying. Is she doing this in her sleep? Is there anything wrong? I struggle to drift back off to sleep because I'm concerned there maybe something wrong. I must add we all sleep in pitch black so we can't see her, but when we use a phone light to look at her, her eyes are shut. This is what makes me wonder if she is doing it in her sleep.I know it isn't hunger or wind etc cos she cries out when it's either of them. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

It’s totally normal. Babies are very active, noisy sleepers. They snuffle, move around, can even cry a bit in their sleep. You’ll often think they’re awake when they’re actually asleep!

don’t tend to her unless she’s awake and crying is my advice, make the most of the sleep!

congrats

All totally normal she may even be dreaming. If it's keeping you awake, pop an earplug in the ear not resting on the pillow. It blocks the sniffles but you can still hear whimpers/cries etc.

She’s probably dreaming! It’s perfectly normal. If she’s hungry she’ll wake up.

Newborns are really noisy sleepers! What you’ve described is totally normal, both of mine did it, I just left them to it but it’s also why I never used a next to me crib! They look fab if you’re breastfeeding and baby is up a lot so you don’t even have to get out of bed but I don’t see the point formula fed baby, so you’re out of bed anyway to make the bottle, who does long stretches of sleep. Put baby in a moses basket or the cot a bit further away from your head would be my advice. We had the cot at the foot of our bed.