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Grunting/straining when put down

My little girl is 4 weeks today. Whenever we put her down in the Moses basket for sleep she does this grunting and straining. She will do this for ages till she eventually fully falls asleep or she cries and we have to pick her up. Sometimes she holds her breath for short periods while doing it. Sometimes she will do it in her chair downstairs too. If we pick her up she stops doing it immediately. She has been on infacol for two weeks as we thought it was wind she was trying to pass but infacol is helping and she brings up good burps and passes wind really well now. Does anyone else’s baba do this or have any idea why she’s doing this at all? It really effects me and my partner being able to sleep at night as we worry about her breathing and can’t sleep because of her making noise She does this both in and out of the swaddle

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The paused breathing is normal per my pediatrician. As long as they breathe once within 8-10 seconds I believe was what she said was safe. My son was never happy being swaddled though so maybe it’s part restlessness too? They’re just learning a new body and new environment ☺️ Edit to add: maybe a sound machine could help baby or daddy?

My son does this. I think it’s infant dyschezia. I stopped infacol as wasn’t making a difference. It apparently passes in time as they get used to pooing x

Both my babies have done this, and it’s nothing to do with colic or straining for a poo (despite lots of people telling me that’s what it *must* be). It’s really annoying and kept us up at night - but it does get better and goes away as they get bigger (my baby is 10 weeks now and while it hasn’t completely stopped, it’s definitely been getting less and less since around 6/7 weeks).

Mine does this too (7 weeks) it’s annoying as it does seem to often wake him up 😭

Our little one (4 weeks) does this too and is so restless. Hates being in the moses basket. We bought a sleep sound with white noise and lullaby’s which worked and have to rock her back to sleep, sometimes this takes ages, like an hour. We basically just do anything we can to calm her down before putting her down again, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn’t! But I’d encourage you to try all things you can as each baby is so different !!

It’s active sleep. Very normal. Have a google.

It’s very normal but i’ve found laying my baby on her side and patting her bum to get her to sleep helps and then lay them on their back once asleep obviously don’t leave them on their side unattended tho 🥰

It’s completely normal. My daughter didn’t have it but my son was grunting like there was no tomorrow 😂 he’s 7 weeks now and it’s eased off massively over the past week