two month old baby doesn’t react to loud noise?

My two month old doesn’t react to loud noises whatsoever, he can definitely hear just fine because he reacts to voices and light noises etc but he has literally no reaction to loud noises or any extent. From a clap, to hoovering, to a door slamming etc he literally has no response. The health visitor picked up on this but said she isn’t concerned but i’m overthinking - is this maybe a delayed milestone? I feel like if he was gonna react to loud noises it would be a reflex/instinct not something developed? I’m overthinking it a lot has anyone had similar with their babies?

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Was your baby a nicu baby? Mine was and got so used to the sounds after the week she was in there so she didn't react to noise either until she got older to realize what the sounds were for ex. The vaccum lol

No he was born at full term a day before his due date and we were home the next night! He doesn’t even do the thing with his eyes where when people get a fright their eyes kinda blink (if that makes sense) like the reflex thing? But then very small noises often will startle him awake it just seems so strange. The health visitor clapped right beside his ear and he had no response but has passed fully on two hearing tests

If you put an object in front of him, will he follow it with his eyes?

My baby doesn’t ether and he passed his hearing test

yeah he has really good tracking!

mine passed his too so it’s just making me very confused and i tend to overthink these things 🥲

that’s a great sign!! Baby might just take longer for hearing

But my baby was a nicu baby but was told to get his hearing checked again

i’m hoping it’s just a little delay like a normal delay kinda thing because every time i try to google it, google tells me he’s going to have all kinds of things from global development delay to hearing loss 🥲

that’s why I asked if he’s tracing things visually. Keep an eye on the hearing, but I do think he’s just developing other skills first. Try to stay off Google, it’s probably more harmful than helpful lol

I will do, thank you 🫶

yeah my LO was born on the third jan, had his hearing test on the morning of the 4th and failed in one ear due to built up mucus so we had another hearing test jan 26th and he passed with flying colours. no nicu for us we were home evening of 4th and only back at hospital for the 26th january second test.. Just seems strange and trying to work out if it’s common!

my social worker said it was strange as we had to go back to hospital for a week and we spoke to the doctors and they said it can be common sometimes but he’ll need it checked again

Maybe he’s just a super chill baby that isn’t worried about things.

I had a very noisy dog and did a lot of hoovering when I was pregnant, barking, loud laughing, hoovering has never bothered her, she was used to the sounds.

Mine didn’t get scared of loud noises until about 3 months

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