Unbelievably noisy sleeper

[CinnabarRed]

DS2 (nearly 3 weeks) makes the most unbelievable noise in his sleep, including full on screams and shouts. They generally start between one and two hours after I put him down. The thing is, he isn't really awake when he makes them at first - he will stay asleep for another hour or so, sometimes more, if left (and generally their volume diminishes after 5/10 mins or so).

Easy to do during the day. Almost impossible at night. But if I pick him up when the noises start then he isn't alert enough to feed properly. If I wait until he starts chewing his fist in his sleep then I can get a good feed down him.

By that point the whole house is wide awake... Including poor DS1, whose in a different room.

Any advice on how to stop the night noises? Is this something he'll grow out of? When? I've been thinking of putting him to sleep in the spare room, which is further away from DS1's room and obviously not in the same room as us - but would be concerned about SIDS.

I've been posting so many questions on the Sleep forum - apologies for bombarding you.

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My LO used to sound like some sort of farmyard animal, it freaked us out when we first heard her, she grew out of it after about 2 or 3 weeks... I remember it was so loud! Good Luck!

Could you put ds1 in the spare room for a little while? Or is he so young this would upset and confuse him at a very sensitive time?

My dd2 used to make ferocious noises at night, like a little monster, but has grown out of them a good while now (3 months).

Our DD is so noisy too. She's almost 8 weeks now and we are trying to get to a place where she'll sleep more than 4 hours in the crib in our room as the moses basket has about had it. But the past two nights have been impossible as she's woken us both up with two hours of unbelievably loud grunting. She sounds like she's being forcibly strangled in her sleep but when we leap up to check, she's fine! It's not helping.....

My DD was very noisy too (she was premature, apparently noisy sleep is especially common with babies born early) - she had grown out of the racket by about 9 weeks.

Poor you, it's tough isn't it?

I can manage 9 weeks.... Just so long as it's not 9 months. How premature was your baby, if you don't mind me asking?

I was amazed how noisy dd was. I had images of little sleeping bundles, all serene and angelic softly snoring. Instead we had a collecting of labouring walruses in the moses basket next to us. We nearly had to put cheese in our ears to get to sleep. There is something very irritating about your newborn finally dropping off after hours of feeds and you being left wide awake due to the noise pollution!

"I had images of little sleeping bundles, all serene and angelic softly snoring."

My first DD was like this. Luckily I had warning of the labouring walruses from a friend with a grunter before DD2 came bellowing into our lives.

Actually I found the totally silent baby more freaky - I was always running over to her cot to make sure she was still breathing. But perhaps that was just PFBitis.

Hey, Cinnabar (is that a moth?!)

DD was 4 weeks premature, FWIW. Some of her noise came from straining to pass wind - she had lactose overload, which meant undigested milk was passing into her gut, fermenting and causing loads of gas, which made her feel bloated and uncomfortable (at least I assume so, because that was what it sounded like!) - lactose overload is very common, about 65% of babies suffer from it at some point, apparently. It just means their digestive systems are immature and not making enough lactase to digest the lactose they take in. Not much you can do about that apart from help them pass wind with massages and leg-cycling etc., maybe limit feeds to one boob at a time for 3-4 hours and wait until their digestive system catches up.

Now she sometimes does these cute little sighs or snores while she's sleeping or very occasionally squeals or cries out in her dreams, but I think that's fairly normal. When she's in deep sleep she's usually fairly silent.

For me, the silent sleep made me MORE wakeful for the same reason given by skidoodly - eventually I bought her a little tummy breathing monitor to wear at night and I sleep better as a result.

She wakes up at least four times to feed, though - but that's another story!

It might be a moth; it's certainly the name of a bright orange-red, also known as Chinese red. I chose this name after the yacht I learned to sail in!

Much as I adore DS2, I do hate the newborn-no-sleep phase. Even with my earplugs in, he wakes me up with his noisy sleep. I don't think wind is a problem though, he farts very easily!

I can't remember exactly when DS quietened down - it was a gradual process - but by about 3 months you would have to listen hard to tell whether he was still breathing. It does get better!

Could you temporarily sleep in the spare room with DS2 until he quietens down enough not to wake DS1?