2 things, sleep related.

karma79

1- does anyone's else LO make scary sounds while they sleep? DS is noisy, it's cute most of the time... When it's not keeping me up, lol. But I think during REM sleep, he will start breathing weird, to the point of hyperventilating. It's scares the crap out of me. 

2- sometimes during the day I don't have the heart to lay him down to sleep. I just hold him and stare at him. I can't stop myself. I keep telling myself "you can't spoil an infant" :-)  Anyone else?

ETA: the first month was so hard but I think I may finally be getting the hang of this mommy thing. :-) Or at least for today. Ha!

ETA 2: I can't believe I have a one month old!!! 

 

lauren.cus

London does the same thing while sleeping!! I think she may be dreaming and it causes her rapid breathing sometimes. My dogs do the same thing which has kind of put my mind at ease about it lol. She'll also whimper and make some freaky noises! And I was just thinking the exact same thing about holding her. I haven't been able to bring myself to lay her down during naps at all today. She's just too precious while she's sleeping. Everything I've read says there is no way to spoil a baby till 3-4 mos. I have noticed at night though that she has a difficult time falling asleep if I'm not holding her, so I'm hoping that's just coincidence.

Amanda78

I held my LO to sleep for basically all 9 weeks of my leave. You can't spoil an infant!

Junebug060609

1- He did when he was your LOs age.  Would even hold his breath now and then.  Now he ninja kicks and does muted squawks and coos.  Pretty sure they are just practicing the new and exciting things they can do.

2- Guilty.  Plus at least I know he'll stay asleep if I keep him on me.

Fififa21

I?m glad to hear my little guy isn?t the only one. Lucas is sooo noisy! He snores, giggles, and makes all kinds of noises in his sleep. It is very cute, but I was wondering if it was normal too! And yes, I constantly hold him and watch him sleep. My DH wants to always let him cry but I keep reminding him that we can?t spoil him at this age, so I like to pick him up. And yay for having 1 month olds! Our boys were born on the same day :-)

mundayem

Our little guy is the same way, very noisy when he sleeps. He does the rapid breathing thing too. I'm also guilty of holding him while he sleeps. He's so cute I never want to put him down. And I figure with all we went through to have this baby I'm going to enjoy him.

luvmyducks

DD breathes weird sometimes when sleeping too.  Wait until he starts gasping--it's scary but normal I guess.

I wouldn't say you are spoiling him, but he can get used to you holding him and then he will want you to hold him every time he sleeps.  Which can get old really quickly.  Up to you

I agree the 1st month-6w was the hardest for us.  Then it started getting much easier. 

Eris-Alexis

1.  C does this too.  He also makes a gasping noise like he's run out of air and it got caught when he was inhaling.  His ped didn't seem too concerned.

2.  I'm guilty of this as well.  I only put C down if I need to do some chores while he sleeps.

ColleenS629

1. Yes, mine do that too.

2. Yes but I wish I hadn't. Apparently you can spoil a newborn because after my MIL left (a week and a half of being held for most naps), my LOs wouldn't sleep anywhere else. We're still working on breaking that from a month ago (I say as they are sleeping on me but only because they got shots today and I think the day was traumatic enough already). 

Foolish5336

A also makes crazy noises while she's sleeping. My pedi said that at this age, they aren't dreaming yet due to how deep of a sleep they get into, but I don't know if I really believe him.

I always hold her for her naps, but DH and I pretty much believe in holding her almost all of the time anyways. But I also don't think that it's possible to spoil a newborn with being held too much, it's one of their biological needs.

ellebelle2384

Sophia makes all sorts of crazy sounds too.  Last night she woke me up at 3:30 with all her breathing/squeaking sounds but stayed asleep like that until around 4:30.  And I agree with PPs...I don't think you can spoil a newborn too much.  I think maybe when she's older, like 3-4 months, we could but for now we're enjoying having her sleep on us (she's doing this right now).