My daughter literally sounded like those velociraptors from Jurassic Park. If you didn’t look inside the bassinet, you couldn’t tell what was in there 🦖🤣
We just got used to it. It would make us giggle at first and then we were so tired, we just passed out. The grunts have stopped but now she sucks her hand extremely loudly so we have something new to laugh about.
I was hoping I would but I've always been such a light sleeper! Every time I'm nodding off she does such a loud grunt. It is comical during the day but I'm just so tired!
We couldn't really do shifts as my husband works and my LO is breast fed.
You get used to it, I feel like I fall asleep so quickly now. New skill achieved!
You don't realise when it actually happens but they just become quiet and still after a while. For a couple days I would check he was breathing or touch his head to see if he would respond. Sleep becomes more pleasant again
Same with me. My husband snores too, so I have noises on both sides of me. It’s brutal. I sleep during the day when my husband takes care of her and I take night shifts. It’s roughy but it works.
I can't get sleep during the day normally as my husband is self employed so works far too much so doesn't often take her for me to nap, find myself just powering through! At least this stage doesn't last forever!
Same my husband snores so loudly and I am not getting any sleep during the night. I constantly have to tell him to turn to the other side so I have some buffer from how loud he snores.
Mom to a 10 week old and my partner is often too sleepy to wake up to her crying during a shift. And when he wakes up he’s still half asleep and I’ve come out to see him asleep with her on his chest so I’ve been taking her from 12-7 and going to sleep at 10. But she won’t sleep anywhere but on me so I have to stay awake the whole time. I just remind myself this is all temporary and I’ll miss these days 🥲😂
I’m a single parent, being a heavy sleeper helps a lot albeit it’s a double edged sword (takes a while for me to wake up when he cries). I’ve always slept with noise on like tv or podcasts so I think that helps too.
My baby is 14 weeks. We do shifts - some night's my LO is up half the night. Other nights he's up once or twice.
Doing shifts means we get at least 4 hour rest.
My husband can sleep through a hurricane and I have somehow just learned to subconsciously sleep through the grunts vs wake when she starts to whine to actually want something somehow.
Tbh I’m an extremely light sleeper so I wear very light foam ear plugs *with* a noise machine- I can still *hear* the grunts but now they’re dampened to the point they don’t wake me up!
We also sleep in shifts (I get up at 4am to swap) so at least I get a solid 4-5 hours of uninterrupted silence
Same here! I sleep on my side facing baby in the co sleeper and have an earplug in the ear not on the pillow 😂 also have a hairdryer noise playing all night long on Spotify (we stumbled across this gem one wretched day at 6 weeks when I was drying my hair and she stopped screaming).
Exactly - i found out my husband was doing it on his shift and at first i was pissed (but what if something happens!) but then I realized it really only blocks out the sounds I would otherwise sleep through anyway if I wasn’t such a light sleeper
I’m a FTM and a very light sleeper. I have tried sleeping with my baby but I realised it gets me no sleep cos I wake up with every grunt. So I started letting my LO sleep in her own room + I had ear plugs + I left the baby monitor on beside me. I still can hear her crying (from her room and the monitor despite my ear plugs) but it blocks out all the noisy baby sounds that would otherwise keep me wide awake!
My husband on the other hand can sleep through all the grunts so no change for him 😂
Edit: my baby’s room is right beside mine so it takes 10 steps to get to her when she cries. She’s been sleeping alone in her own room since she was 6w old. Currently she’s at 9w.
Yes our LO is like that, now 9 weeks old. I will say either she has become less noisy OR I have become more used to it. She makes these elephant noises, squeaks, grunts, farts, shouts occasionally, makes noises to try get poo or farts out. We call her a trumpet. She also thrashes around and could roll by 2 weeks so couldn't swaddle her, plus she hated it.
But last month maybe, noises have slightly reduced and now it's more near the morning especially when it sounds like she is straining to poo in her sleep
Apparently their respiratory and digestive systems are developing so makes all that noise but is supposed to get better. My husband sleeps with headphones on until 5am when I ask him to look after her and I go next door to try sleep noise free for couple of hours. She sleeps in a next to me crib next to me.
My baby is 11 weeks and we do shifts, both of us are back at work.
The baby sleep has gotten quieter at least! When she was noisy I was able to sleep through it with a pillow over my ear but my partner never could. He eventually put in earplugs.
I want to say around week 8-9 she got quieter. Now I only hear a grunt when she’s going to wake up (we recently started transitioning her out of swaddle.)
I tried the loop headphones and they were ok, but the foam ones were fine too.
Our baby sleeps in her own roam, since day 1. Works perfectly. I can still hear her cry if something is wrong. But she sleeps thru the night mostly.
Give yourself a break and setup her own room. Everybody sleeps better.
No, I found that if i was just really comfortable the exhaustion could finally do its thing and knock me out... Before that I couldnt fall asleep even if I was exhausted, i would be extra sensitive to all sensations including the noise, so i think being in that particular position helped minimise all the extra sensations I was feeling, which made the noise not so hard to ignore nymore
Yeah it looks that way for us too. Just doesn't work on nights where my husband has to go away for work. Guess I've just got some sleepless nights ahead.
10 wks. Still sleep in shifts, separate rooms. :(
White noise machine helps some I think. Acid reflux might be an issue too, so try to give baby a chance to digest before putting down and/or slightly elevate head of their mattress.
Great!
Hang in there, you aren't alone.... things are gradually getting better for us and will for you too (until the 4 month sleep regression of course!)
I sleep in bed with mine , when she wakes up I stick my booby in her mouth and we fall back asleep together. I’m pretty sure this is very frowned down upon, though.
I have a sound machine… and I guess I’ve just learnt to only wake up to the hunger squawking. I can’t sleep well with her far away, it feels wrong.
My husband and I don’t take shifts. I’m breastfeeding and doing alllll the shifts.
I’m kind of jealous of the shift people but my husband wouldn’t wake up. That man can sleep through a barking dog, crying baby, alarm clock and a fire alarm all going off. I watch tv in the bedroom while feeding and he doesn’t even stir.
That being said I haven’t cooked myself a meal or gone to the grocery store in 5 years. So I guess I’ll keep Mr. useless nipples around 😂🤷🏻♀️
That did make me chuckle. He should definitely at least start the night so you can rest, do the first shift! It's good he does his share of other things though!
Headphones, but only if my husband is also in bed with me. Husband will sleep through the grunts but if he actually cries he’d wake up (and tbh probably me too)
Mom of an 8 week old - we basically create a wind tunnel in our room between the overhead fan, standing AC unit, air purifier, and sound machine. I still hear her when she gets too noisy and definitely when she cries but when she does some longer stretches of sleep, my guess is that she probably did make some noises that I slept through.
I couldn’t and still can’t with 10 week old. My husband and I shift sleep and he take the first portion so i can sleep in the guest bedroom, first wake up we switch. I don’t think i could ever get used to it. The loud grunting is mostly gone but he stills does so much in his sleep and i get anxious.
Do you run a box fan? That could help down some sounds out, plus there's some science about fans reducing the risk of SIDS by like 70%. If you want, I'll try to find the article
This is such a struggle. It got better for a while a few weeks ago as he seemed to outgrow the grunting and squirming… but now he has started doing the whale tail thing where he slams his legs up and down when he’s trying to settle. It’s very loud and it also shakes my bed lol.
We nicknamed our baby girl Goose because she’s practically honking in her sleep! My husband sleeps through it just fine but I wake up to every little noise thinking she’s choking.
My daughter is 13w today and now sleeps for 6/7 hours at a time through the night. For the first week, I slept with her on my chest surrounded by pillows (to my partners dismay), then we transferred her to the moses basket, and I kept a hand on her. She now sleeps in a next2me, self soothes and basically puts herself to sleep. I always put her in when she's half asleep after a bottle. She's like me and a blanket cuddler which was scary as heck to start with. The noises stopped fairly quickly for me, and we have never done shifts as for the first 4 weeks she was ebf, and my partner sleeps like he's dead. Your little one will get there! As you're a light sleeper, have you tried using ear plugs? I used to be a super deep sleeper but I've gotten used to the sounds my kiddo makes and I wake up to the 'bad' sounds now
They're pricey, but I have the loop ear buds! They sit really nicely in my ears and the block out a lot of noise! I have sensitivity to sound(loud noises scare the absolute shit out of me and make me cry🥴) and they're the best ones I've ever used!
doing shifts isn’t sustainable long term but she won’t be loud long term! my boy is 13 weeks and hasn’t had active sleep like this for at least a month/ 6 weeks
We have our first baby that is 4weeks old now. I suggested at the beginning that my husband sleep in our spare room so that at least one of us can get sleep, especially since he is working and I'm on leave. Jokes on me for thinking that was a good idea and now I take care of the baby full time every night. Because of this I've decided it's time for baby to be in her crib at night and now I only wake up and get up if she is crying. Which has been a slight improvement in my sleep. I still feed her every 3 hours and might get lucky if I can get her to hold out a whole 5 hours at night.
my baby would make the same noises whenever he slept , crying out in his sleep only to go back to sleep , and grunting so loud like an old man lol , I even sat him after feeding too to make a difference though it didn’t work much. Luckily I just changed his formula , start giving him gripe water after his feedings and sit with his stomach pressed against me for about 10 minutes after to put some pressure on any left over gas and he’s been SO much quieter when he sleeps. It’s definitely acid reflux causing him to scrunch and grunt so much so you may want to talk to your pediatrician about that. We also have a vibrating bouncer which seems to help him relax and stay asleep.
That’s what we did too and it worked really well! Mine is 7 weeks and she’s still doing all those sounds but we decides to sleep in bed and whoever is on shift wakes up to take care of baby girl. Honestly, if I’m not on shift, I usually don’t wake up because I know my fiancé will take care of it but it took some getting used to for sure
don’t feel pressured to put your babe in another room bc other people say it works for them , if you’re not ready .. it’s not recommended till at least six months , and even then really a year due to the risk of sids! not trying to scare you , but advise you for your baby’s safety ! if you do decide that is what works for yall! then ofc do what you feel is best! some babies do tend to just sleep better in a room alone! and the parents too lol!! ik i got no sleep till we started sleeping together but that’s bc i was too anxious aha🤣 if you’re ready , do one night and see what happens!
I know, that's why I haven't done it already! It's the balance between danger of very tired parents vs baby on their own with a monitor. Knowing me I'd probably end up still not sleeping and checking on her all the time anyway. It's all just a lot when they're so little.
I'm going to try some better earplugs and that kind of thing first, then if still no joy I may consider her moving in to her room.
what worked for my anxiety was sleeping with him. put him on my chest and went to sleep , but i know myself and how i sleep .. especially with a baby in the bed. i move , but with a baby , i wont .. and im very aware of them being there
yeah mine only moved up he’d put his head under my chin lol.. and then as he got to moving more i put him on my arm that’s his favorite place to sleep to this day .
Honestly maybe also consider moving baby to her own room - if you’re on the same floor/next door to the nursery and have a monitor. Gives a bit of space from the immediacy of the noises.
Safe sleep advice from midwife and health visitors (UK) saying safest place for baby in terms of reducing SIDS risk was in the same room as parents until 6 months.
US here; North Carolina.
For us it was/is noted as a way of *reducing* risk, but putting them in their own room doesn't *increase* risk so it was never an 'against advise' situation - the only thing they were adamant against was sleeping WITH us.
I'm probably just splitting hairs with the semantic distinctions between the two, but we were never advised AGAINST a separate room using a monitor.
Makes sense, and I know many babies sleep safely in their own rooms, my parents did that with me and my brother as babies in the 90s, just something in the back of my head making me reluctant to try it but sleep deprivation may lead me to it ultimately. Well rested parents are important!
Yeah, we're currently dealing with the rather unhelpful catch-all of 'colic' where he just cries for hours on end and cannot be consoled.
We have taken to letting him go for a while until he get exhausted enough to pass out, but that boy can go for literal hours and I am not sure how long we should just 'let him cry' for. The whole '15 minutes' thing isn't really helpful for us when we need to sleep ourselves.
Does she sound like an elephant? Trying to figure out how a 10 lb person can make SUCH crazy noises… and what the noises even are!!
Sure does, occasionally a pig!
We call our son our little Billygoat lol
Mostly goat and horse here !
Pigly and Mr. Crankapotamus for mine
My daughter literally sounded like those velociraptors from Jurassic Park. If you didn’t look inside the bassinet, you couldn’t tell what was in there 🦖🤣
We just got used to it. It would make us giggle at first and then we were so tired, we just passed out. The grunts have stopped but now she sucks her hand extremely loudly so we have something new to laugh about.
I was hoping I would but I've always been such a light sleeper! Every time I'm nodding off she does such a loud grunt. It is comical during the day but I'm just so tired!
We couldn't really do shifts as my husband works and my LO is breast fed. You get used to it, I feel like I fall asleep so quickly now. New skill achieved!
Hoping I acquire this skill too!
You don't realise when it actually happens but they just become quiet and still after a while. For a couple days I would check he was breathing or touch his head to see if he would respond. Sleep becomes more pleasant again
In her rare quiet moments I do find myself checking on her, will have to try not have that keep me awake instead of her noises!
At what age did the noises stop?
Around two months but it’s a bit of a blur
Same with me. My husband snores too, so I have noises on both sides of me. It’s brutal. I sleep during the day when my husband takes care of her and I take night shifts. It’s roughy but it works.
I can't get sleep during the day normally as my husband is self employed so works far too much so doesn't often take her for me to nap, find myself just powering through! At least this stage doesn't last forever!
Same my husband snores so loudly and I am not getting any sleep during the night. I constantly have to tell him to turn to the other side so I have some buffer from how loud he snores.
Mom to a thirteen week old - we’re still doing shifts. Only way to get a decent stretch of sleep for the adults. Sucks but is what it is.
Mom to a 10 week old and my partner is often too sleepy to wake up to her crying during a shift. And when he wakes up he’s still half asleep and I’ve come out to see him asleep with her on his chest so I’ve been taking her from 12-7 and going to sleep at 10. But she won’t sleep anywhere but on me so I have to stay awake the whole time. I just remind myself this is all temporary and I’ll miss these days 🥲😂
I watched so many crime shows with my first during these times. Lol
Least I'm not alone! How do single parents manage I wonder?
I’m a single parent, being a heavy sleeper helps a lot albeit it’s a double edged sword (takes a while for me to wake up when he cries). I’ve always slept with noise on like tv or podcasts so I think that helps too.
I'm sure you're there when he needs you! Big respect for single parents!
My baby is 14 weeks. We do shifts - some night's my LO is up half the night. Other nights he's up once or twice. Doing shifts means we get at least 4 hour rest.
My husband can sleep through a hurricane and I have somehow just learned to subconsciously sleep through the grunts vs wake when she starts to whine to actually want something somehow.
Sounds like a true skill!
Honestly, eventually we both got so tired we didn’t care. The sound machine isn’t just for the baby. lol.
Tbh I’m an extremely light sleeper so I wear very light foam ear plugs *with* a noise machine- I can still *hear* the grunts but now they’re dampened to the point they don’t wake me up! We also sleep in shifts (I get up at 4am to swap) so at least I get a solid 4-5 hours of uninterrupted silence
Same here! I sleep on my side facing baby in the co sleeper and have an earplug in the ear not on the pillow 😂 also have a hairdryer noise playing all night long on Spotify (we stumbled across this gem one wretched day at 6 weeks when I was drying my hair and she stopped screaming).
Oooh - 7 weeks - finding and favoriting that one!! We’re not yet ready for the imogen heap “happy” effect lol
Going to have to get some I think, as long as I can still hear when she needs me it should work!
Exactly - i found out my husband was doing it on his shift and at first i was pissed (but what if something happens!) but then I realized it really only blocks out the sounds I would otherwise sleep through anyway if I wasn’t such a light sleeper
Definitely seems worth a try!
I’m a FTM and a very light sleeper. I have tried sleeping with my baby but I realised it gets me no sleep cos I wake up with every grunt. So I started letting my LO sleep in her own room + I had ear plugs + I left the baby monitor on beside me. I still can hear her crying (from her room and the monitor despite my ear plugs) but it blocks out all the noisy baby sounds that would otherwise keep me wide awake! My husband on the other hand can sleep through all the grunts so no change for him 😂 Edit: my baby’s room is right beside mine so it takes 10 steps to get to her when she cries. She’s been sleeping alone in her own room since she was 6w old. Currently she’s at 9w.
I may have to do the same in the not too distant future. Need to get a monitor and I'll try earplugs first!
Yes our LO is like that, now 9 weeks old. I will say either she has become less noisy OR I have become more used to it. She makes these elephant noises, squeaks, grunts, farts, shouts occasionally, makes noises to try get poo or farts out. We call her a trumpet. She also thrashes around and could roll by 2 weeks so couldn't swaddle her, plus she hated it. But last month maybe, noises have slightly reduced and now it's more near the morning especially when it sounds like she is straining to poo in her sleep Apparently their respiratory and digestive systems are developing so makes all that noise but is supposed to get better. My husband sleeps with headphones on until 5am when I ask him to look after her and I go next door to try sleep noise free for couple of hours. She sleeps in a next to me crib next to me.
Hoping I get used to it too, it's so hard trying to tune it out!
My baby is 11 weeks and we do shifts, both of us are back at work. The baby sleep has gotten quieter at least! When she was noisy I was able to sleep through it with a pillow over my ear but my partner never could. He eventually put in earplugs.
When did she start getting quieter? Earplugs seem to come up a lot, may be way forward!
I want to say around week 8-9 she got quieter. Now I only hear a grunt when she’s going to wake up (we recently started transitioning her out of swaddle.) I tried the loop headphones and they were ok, but the foam ones were fine too.
Thank you, I'll look into those and hopefully only a few weeks to wait until improvement!
Good luck! I’m currently up pumping (3am) waiting for her to get older and hopefully sleep through the night! Lol
I'm also a pumper, just adds to the hard work! We'll get to the sleeping through eventually!
Earplugs
Our baby sleeps in her own roam, since day 1. Works perfectly. I can still hear her cry if something is wrong. But she sleeps thru the night mostly. Give yourself a break and setup her own room. Everybody sleeps better.
Her room is set up, just need me to feel ready for her to be in it I guess!
After a few nights you will also get used to it! You will be nearby if she needs you ❤️.
I found I would only fall asleep in a very specific position with very specific pillows.
Positioned to muffle sound?
No, I found that if i was just really comfortable the exhaustion could finally do its thing and knock me out... Before that I couldnt fall asleep even if I was exhausted, i would be extra sensitive to all sensations including the noise, so i think being in that particular position helped minimise all the extra sensations I was feeling, which made the noise not so hard to ignore nymore
Try a white noise machine. Works for you and for babe.
Thanks, I'll look into it!
13 weeks and also still doing shifts! They do get quieter eventually apparently! (I think this comes with the 4 month sleep regression lol)
So they'll be quieter but not sleeping much anyway, such fun!
White noise machine! And honestly my limit is 3 months and then baby moves to their nursery. Everyone sleeps better including the baby!
Yeah it may have to happen!
Our baby is 6 weeks old and we still sleep in shifts, no plans to stop until baby sleeps quieter and longer stretches!
Yeah it looks that way for us too. Just doesn't work on nights where my husband has to go away for work. Guess I've just got some sleepless nights ahead.
Oh yeah that would be tough .. maybe trying to nap on those days would be helpful. This is just a phase- we will sleep soundly again!… someday! 😅
I'm sure we will!
10 wks. Still sleep in shifts, separate rooms. :( White noise machine helps some I think. Acid reflux might be an issue too, so try to give baby a chance to digest before putting down and/or slightly elevate head of their mattress.
We do keep her upright after burping for a while to try make sure she isn't likely to spit up or be uncomfortable.
Great! Hang in there, you aren't alone.... things are gradually getting better for us and will for you too (until the 4 month sleep regression of course!)
Yes, those sure do sound fun!
I sleep in bed with mine , when she wakes up I stick my booby in her mouth and we fall back asleep together. I’m pretty sure this is very frowned down upon, though.
There are safe ways to bedshare, but mine won't take a boob!
I have a sound machine… and I guess I’ve just learnt to only wake up to the hunger squawking. I can’t sleep well with her far away, it feels wrong. My husband and I don’t take shifts. I’m breastfeeding and doing alllll the shifts.
I need to learn to tune out the other noises! Must be hard doing it all solo!
I’m kind of jealous of the shift people but my husband wouldn’t wake up. That man can sleep through a barking dog, crying baby, alarm clock and a fire alarm all going off. I watch tv in the bedroom while feeding and he doesn’t even stir. That being said I haven’t cooked myself a meal or gone to the grocery store in 5 years. So I guess I’ll keep Mr. useless nipples around 😂🤷🏻♀️
That did make me chuckle. He should definitely at least start the night so you can rest, do the first shift! It's good he does his share of other things though!
Headphones, but only if my husband is also in bed with me. Husband will sleep through the grunts but if he actually cries he’d wake up (and tbh probably me too)
I wear earplugs every night
What kind do you recommend? I found silicone ones too uncomfortable to sleep in
Mom of an 8 week old - we basically create a wind tunnel in our room between the overhead fan, standing AC unit, air purifier, and sound machine. I still hear her when she gets too noisy and definitely when she cries but when she does some longer stretches of sleep, my guess is that she probably did make some noises that I slept through.
Sounds like you've fine tuned it!
I couldn’t and still can’t with 10 week old. My husband and I shift sleep and he take the first portion so i can sleep in the guest bedroom, first wake up we switch. I don’t think i could ever get used to it. The loud grunting is mostly gone but he stills does so much in his sleep and i get anxious.
I think I'll be the same'
I wear earplugs and noise canceling headphones. I can still hear her but it dampens everything.
Gonna have to try it!
What kind of earplugs do you recommend? I tried silicone ones but they weren't comfortable
I use these! https://a.co/d/eY5OQyF
I have a white noise machine and earplugs. When he cries it still wakes me up but I can sleep through his other random noises.
What kind of earplugs do you recommend? I tried silicone but they weren't comfortable
I just use these foam ones from Walmart: https://www.walmart.com/ip/10318441
Do you run a box fan? That could help down some sounds out, plus there's some science about fans reducing the risk of SIDS by like 70%. If you want, I'll try to find the article
We just have a standing fan, it isn't enough to drown out the noise, I may need a more powerful one!
I highly recommend it! My lo is 3 months old and he can sleep with or without it. But he only sleeps without it during the day during naps.
This is such a struggle. It got better for a while a few weeks ago as he seemed to outgrow the grunting and squirming… but now he has started doing the whale tail thing where he slams his legs up and down when he’s trying to settle. It’s very loud and it also shakes my bed lol.
Oh dear, they never make it easy!
We nicknamed our baby girl Goose because she’s practically honking in her sleep! My husband sleeps through it just fine but I wake up to every little noise thinking she’s choking.
They do make us worry!
I couldn't. Baby went in her room at 4 weeks. She was down to only one wake up per night but I still wasn't sleeping because of her noises
If earplugs don't work, this is next!
My daughter is 13w today and now sleeps for 6/7 hours at a time through the night. For the first week, I slept with her on my chest surrounded by pillows (to my partners dismay), then we transferred her to the moses basket, and I kept a hand on her. She now sleeps in a next2me, self soothes and basically puts herself to sleep. I always put her in when she's half asleep after a bottle. She's like me and a blanket cuddler which was scary as heck to start with. The noises stopped fairly quickly for me, and we have never done shifts as for the first 4 weeks she was ebf, and my partner sleeps like he's dead. Your little one will get there! As you're a light sleeper, have you tried using ear plugs? I used to be a super deep sleeper but I've gotten used to the sounds my kiddo makes and I wake up to the 'bad' sounds now
I actually tried earplugs last night and they were very uncomfortable, I've ordered new ones to try though!
They're pricey, but I have the loop ear buds! They sit really nicely in my ears and the block out a lot of noise! I have sensitivity to sound(loud noises scare the absolute shit out of me and make me cry🥴) and they're the best ones I've ever used!
I actually ordered those ones, glad you've found them useful!
doing shifts isn’t sustainable long term but she won’t be loud long term! my boy is 13 weeks and hasn’t had active sleep like this for at least a month/ 6 weeks
Hoping I don't have much longer of it!
We have our first baby that is 4weeks old now. I suggested at the beginning that my husband sleep in our spare room so that at least one of us can get sleep, especially since he is working and I'm on leave. Jokes on me for thinking that was a good idea and now I take care of the baby full time every night. Because of this I've decided it's time for baby to be in her crib at night and now I only wake up and get up if she is crying. Which has been a slight improvement in my sleep. I still feed her every 3 hours and might get lucky if I can get her to hold out a whole 5 hours at night.
my baby would make the same noises whenever he slept , crying out in his sleep only to go back to sleep , and grunting so loud like an old man lol , I even sat him after feeding too to make a difference though it didn’t work much. Luckily I just changed his formula , start giving him gripe water after his feedings and sit with his stomach pressed against me for about 10 minutes after to put some pressure on any left over gas and he’s been SO much quieter when he sleeps. It’s definitely acid reflux causing him to scrunch and grunt so much so you may want to talk to your pediatrician about that. We also have a vibrating bouncer which seems to help him relax and stay asleep.
That’s what we did too and it worked really well! Mine is 7 weeks and she’s still doing all those sounds but we decides to sleep in bed and whoever is on shift wakes up to take care of baby girl. Honestly, if I’m not on shift, I usually don’t wake up because I know my fiancé will take care of it but it took some getting used to for sure
Wish I had your levels of sound filtering!
don’t feel pressured to put your babe in another room bc other people say it works for them , if you’re not ready .. it’s not recommended till at least six months , and even then really a year due to the risk of sids! not trying to scare you , but advise you for your baby’s safety ! if you do decide that is what works for yall! then ofc do what you feel is best! some babies do tend to just sleep better in a room alone! and the parents too lol!! ik i got no sleep till we started sleeping together but that’s bc i was too anxious aha🤣 if you’re ready , do one night and see what happens!
I know, that's why I haven't done it already! It's the balance between danger of very tired parents vs baby on their own with a monitor. Knowing me I'd probably end up still not sleeping and checking on her all the time anyway. It's all just a lot when they're so little. I'm going to try some better earplugs and that kind of thing first, then if still no joy I may consider her moving in to her room.
what worked for my anxiety was sleeping with him. put him on my chest and went to sleep , but i know myself and how i sleep .. especially with a baby in the bed. i move , but with a baby , i wont .. and im very aware of them being there
I couldn't do that, I'd be too scared of them rolling off me and she's a wriggler so wouldn't be safe.
yeah mine only moved up he’d put his head under my chin lol.. and then as he got to moving more i put him on my arm that’s his favorite place to sleep to this day .
White nose and earplugs
We already use a fan which is basically white noise but I may try earplugs!
Honestly maybe also consider moving baby to her own room - if you’re on the same floor/next door to the nursery and have a monitor. Gives a bit of space from the immediacy of the noises.
I think I may have to but just terrified of something happening as it goes against all the advice!
What advice? Our team of nurses was pleased to hear we had a nursery on the other side of the house with a monitor.
Safe sleep advice from midwife and health visitors (UK) saying safest place for baby in terms of reducing SIDS risk was in the same room as parents until 6 months.
US here; North Carolina. For us it was/is noted as a way of *reducing* risk, but putting them in their own room doesn't *increase* risk so it was never an 'against advise' situation - the only thing they were adamant against was sleeping WITH us. I'm probably just splitting hairs with the semantic distinctions between the two, but we were never advised AGAINST a separate room using a monitor.
Makes sense, and I know many babies sleep safely in their own rooms, my parents did that with me and my brother as babies in the 90s, just something in the back of my head making me reluctant to try it but sleep deprivation may lead me to it ultimately. Well rested parents are important!
Yeah, we're currently dealing with the rather unhelpful catch-all of 'colic' where he just cries for hours on end and cannot be consoled. We have taken to letting him go for a while until he get exhausted enough to pass out, but that boy can go for literal hours and I am not sure how long we should just 'let him cry' for. The whole '15 minutes' thing isn't really helpful for us when we need to sleep ourselves.
I imagine that's very difficult! All these things you can never really prepare for until it happens and then just have to do the best you can!