Active sleep

My girl sleeps fine and then about 4/5 hours I’ll wake up and she’s grunting so much everytime I get up to the Moses basket she then stops fast asleep lol, I’ll lay back down and she does it again. I can’t tell if it’s active sleep or if she’s stirring to wake up. She so damn loud, my partner is a deep sleeper and sleeps through it but I just can’t. I always get her up change her and feed her as I find she goes back to sleep within half hour but when do they stop being so noises? Thing is she gets up now, won’t go back to bed to half 4 then my partners up at 6am for work and he’s damm loud to I have such broken sleep lol.

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This is exactly the same for me

My daughter is the same. We used to make a bottle thinking she was stirring but it would go to waste as she wouldn't wake until quite a while later. Our osteopath said it's active sleep and not to get up to her until she's actually crying properly as we'd be waking her up earlier than she needs to be. It's noisy but I have left her and she'll often sleep for another hour.

I try but it’s so damn loud lol and I’m just laying here until she wakes up as I can’t sleep through it 😢 I’ll try my best tomorrow and see how I get on

Same here, he sleeps silently for his first chunk of sleep and then his second half he pretty much just grunts the whole time, he did have a cold so I thought it was that but think the grunting is just newborn sounds now

My boy is like that, especially ATM as he has a cold. He's sounds like Darth Vader and is constantly making me panic as he stops breathing for a moment etc. 🙄🤦‍♀️

It's hard I know 😔 She doesnt do it for as long as she did so I'm hoping she'll outgrow the grunting, gasping, moaning soon. She's 8 weeks tomorrow. The gasping is the worst as she holds her breath and it makesr feel sick x

Omg me too its like a comedy sketch I get up and put my dressing gown on and all is silent, lie down and 4 seconds later it starts again- have wasted so many bottles and ended up holding her two hours when she was still asleep- trying to hold off now but its usually around an hour where I could have been asleep!

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