grunty baby: is this normal?

[canadianlisa]

Hi,

Just looking for some advice. Our lovely 6 week old baby girl spends a lot of her time in the day and almost all night grunting. She grunts, snorts and snuffles all night long! I think it is possibly her way of trying to pass wind as well as a a kind of 'pre-cry' communication. I am worried that she is not sleeping properly. She is also sleeping in our room and is making it impossible for the adults to sleep with her (even with ear plugs in!) I am thinking of evicting her to her own room very soon as I cannot take another night of no sleep in between 3 hourly feedings.

She is exclusively breast fed. We have tried infacol and it seemed to help for a while with the wind but recently did not seem to be doing anything other than making her fart loads. If I put her in our bed she is much quieter but this is not something that I want to do long term. She sleeps in a moses basket snd I am wondering if she would prefer a cot as she could look out.

Has anyone else had experience of a grunty baby? Has anyone had any success with homeopathic remedies for wind?

Thanks Lisa

[trinity]

Hi Lisa - I had a grunty baby. It happened all the time and then stopped at about 3 months. No idea what caused it or why it stopped. I did ask the gp at the 6 week check up but they had no idea either. I kept him in bed with me so didn't have sleeping problems so can't help you with that either. I just wanted to let you know that it can be perfectly normal and didn't seem to be wind associated for us.

[pebbles]

Our 7 wk old was also sooooooooooo grunty and was evicted at 2 wks - tried infacol etc and then we saw a cranial osteopath and he said it was something to do with how she was lying when inside me and her gut. we saw him twice and basically she has moved back into our room and doesn't grunt at all anymore. as with all of these things who knows, it might have rectified itself however i thought he was brilliant.

Good luck

[canadianlisa]

do you hsve details for the osteopeth- might be worth a try.

[Belle]

Mine grunted a fair bit, it did pass. Friends of mine who had a similar baby and were light sleepers came up with the solution of having her sleep just outside their door (they had enough space to do that) in her crib, meant they felt more comfortable that she was near but they could sleep.

[nunheadmum]

My second was a grunter too. I think we just accepted it and gradually it passed - but her sleeping generally got worse so possibly the grunting just stopped being noticed.

I've used Katie Sedgewick in ED for reflexology and I know she does cranial osteopathy for babies too - she tried it on mine but she was too wriggly and there didn't seem to be much up with her. If you search on here or google her, you'll get her details. Also the London School of Osteopathy does osteopathy for babies at pretty reasonable rates.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Stop worrying and sign her up for tennis lessons. You will be kept well in your old age.

[pebbles]

The cranial osteopath that I use is a guy called Naval and the number is 02077389199 - based in Clapham.

I know everyone can recommend however this guy absolutely rocks - I honestly can't recommend him enough. It's his own business that he set up about 20 years ago. My sister in law found him with her 2 kids.

Good luck

[Bumpkin]

Baby B was fantastically loud grunter until around 12 weeks when his insides seemed to sort themselves out - think it's a wind type thing, but even after 3/4 hr winding at 4am, couldn't get it all out. We put him in his own room at 9 weeks and all slept far better.

[championcat]

We call that sound "munkering". You learn to tune it out eventually, and then it stops anyway as baby grows.

FOr wind/colic I'd definitely recommend cranial osteopathy. We trekked to the osteopathic centre for children when our daughter was teeny and they worked wonders on her check out fpo dot org dot uk (don't know if I'm allowed to post a direct link?)

[Shaggy]

Our beautiful tiny little daughter grunts and chunters and snots and farts like a Guiness-filled rugby player throughout the whole night. Now I wake up when I don't hear chuntering.

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

LOL Shaggy, sounds like my son!

[canadianlisa]

Haha- I feel reassured that it is just her little way of communicating. She is also a big time farter and sometimes lifts her leg and lets one go while eating- classy lady!! The weird thing as I said is that it completely stops when she is my bed, maybe as she is in a deeper sleep. Just one of those things I guess. Thanks for the replies everyone.