Sleeping behaviour

My 8 week old sleeps in complete silence for the first 3/4 hours of the night and then gradually gets more active in movement and sound. By 4/5am I can no longer sleep due to his thrashing around and grunting. Just wondering if this is normal? He also sleeps in pretty much silence during the day!

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Ours is the same, we put her down about 10pm and she sleeps through till about 3am when she wakes up for a feed and she’d then go back down again till about 7 but second half of the night she’s been really unsettled and wriggling around/noisy to the point I can’t sleep

Oh and also 8 weeks old

Yes same with my 9 week old she’s awful after her 3/4am feed so I’m constantly feeling like I’ve been awake since then with just patches of broken dozing in between. She doesn’t always thrash but she’s usually noisy. I think it’s possibly a build up of gas throughout the day?

My baby no longer has that 3am feed and sleeps through until 7am but still grunts from 4am! We ran out of dentinox last weekend and couldn’t get hold of any, not sure if it’s coincidental but he didn’t grunt when not having it. Now we’ve managed to get hold of some he’s grunting again!

We have exactly the same issue and honestly it’s exhausting as they are so loud!! Our LO is 10 weeks and starts grunting exactly 30 mins after we’ve put him back to bed every night, it’s as if it’s his stomach starting to digest the milk but he doesn’t do it earlier on, it’s so bizarre!

this is us, after her middle of the night feed our little girl can go an hour and then restless for the rest of it, I’ve put it down to wind, I’m constantly getting her up to try burp her as she’s throwing her legs abs body side to side

We have the same issue!

My almost 8 week old does this too!

Same here with my 11 week old! I'm putting it down to trapped gas too even though we burp her and sot upright etc after that 2ish am feed. She seems to be sleeping through all the noise/moving about but I'm not 😅 her dad seems to be oblivious to it mind you.... no idea how!

same here.. I might try sleeping on his side of the bed as apparently baby noise isn’t heard over there 😂

Totally the same with my 8 week girl! The GP said that they grow out of it eventually and joked that there isn’t grunting teenage sleepers out there when I persisted with my worries at our 6 week check 😭🤣

same

So glad ive seen this post as i thought my baby was the only one who did this!
But yeah mine is the same! Hes 10 weeks but has done it for weeks! Annoying really 😂😂

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