Grunting and straining noisy baby. Haven’t slept in 2 months

[Kat2024]

Does anyone have any advice to reduce the noise that a 2 month old makes when sleeping. Our baby is fast asleep but straining and grunting and making horrible loud noises that keep us awake from 1am to 8am. He sleeps silently for the first 1 or 2 hours. I have asked 2 doctors and a community health worker and they all say it’s normal. It sounds like he is trying to push out a poo or wind and he looks distressed but then when we wake him up he smiles! We are exhausted. I don’t want to put him in his own room as he’s so little and I don’t want to wear ear plugs in case I miss a noise that I need to hear!

My kids did this. You have my sympathy, unless you’ve experienced it you have no idea of the noise. People talk to you about little grunts and snuffles but it’s more like a middle aged banker with a poor diet followed by a hot curry…

In my case with both I snapped around 12 weeks and put them in their own room with an Angelcare motion sensor. Not proud of it but I was going round the twist.

Nothing you can do really unless you want to put him in his own room.

Me too. My day was prem so was tiny but he was SO noisy !

You could wear one ear plug so it muffles the sound. I've never found any ear plugs that block out the sound completely,they just muffle it so it makes it easier to sleep and babies soon make themselves heard if they need feeding.

Thank you ! It is so loud. Jurassic park springs to mind.

I remember this very very well. I wore ear plugs. Trust me, I didn't miss a single sound but it muffled the grunts enough so I could sleep a little better.

I also made DH sleep on the side closer to to the baby's cot as he is a deeper sleeper than me. He needed ear plugs too, he found it torture.

Putting him in his own room doesn't help much. Because you then need the baby monitor on and I found the monitor really amplifies sounds in a horrible electronic way and actually makes the grunts sound worse.

Yep. It's awful.
We had to.put our DS in his own room from 8 weeks but obviously could still hear him on the monitor.
With DH snoring one side and DS grunting on the other I was being driven mad

When does it stop!?!?!

Never 😂

My kid now laughs in his sleep. Hes nine.

I’m afraid I put ds in his own room aged 3 days and the room was pretty near so didn’t have a monitor either. Sleep is important.

It doesn’t really, 4 year old still snores and now talks and laughs in his sleep. He sometimes sits bolt upright and starts yelling at some unknown thing. I don’t even wake up now. By about a year old, I was mostly immune.

Could infacol help? The doctor said he could be slightly colicky

I’m not sure @Kat2024. It’s often caused by the nasal passages developing and being small. So it’s really a case of waiting but I don’t see any harm in trying it.
we did get some success with saline nose rinse to clear the nose before sleep. But I don’t know what the age recommendation is on that. Worth a google

We used nosefrida as well if that helps

Ugh I remember this. Sounded like a little dinosaur. He did grow out of it though can't remember when. I wore earplugs and could still hear when he needed me (he was in a next-to-me crib).

This will improve. My baby did this too, give it another month. Could try white noise machine?

You could try it?

It’s normal. I just wore ear plugs and put a white noise machine in our room. She was next to me so I could hear crying easily and and movement as right up to my bed.

Most stop around 4- 5 months. Mine did and I remember googling it and it was very much a newborn thing.

No. That's not at all likely, given he sleeps all night.

Colicky means excessive crying. It is completely normal OP - you can’t change him.
Have you read up about the fourth trimester? It’s really good explaining newborn behavior.

Oh it’s dreadful and so loud. I couldn’t sleep and was going nuts. We put him in his own room at 5 weeks , doors open so could hear when he woke for feeding. Not ideal however neither is mum who cant function.

Here's an excellent article about "colic"
Colic myths and how to settle your baby | BabyDoc https://share.google/n9frwbccpA7EylepE

We had the same thing! I wore loop earplugs to muffle the sound and then DS stopped doing it at about 3 months. Also white noise or a fan to muffle the sound!