grunting at night

D&D4Ever7 · November 2011

I wanted to see what you do when you find yourself in this situations. There are specific times in the middle of the night when DS starts grunting. Usually grunting means "change my diaper asap and feed me." However, sometimes, he will just grunt for 2 hrs. Now when he is grunting while sleeping, I automatically wake up to change and feed him because I don't want DS to cry really loud and wake up DH (LO is sleeping in our room in a pnp). For now since LO is only 6wks, I will continue to get him up to feed him, but when do you think I should just let him grunt to see if he will sleep longer?

VeilSdeGTO · November 2011

I let her grunt. I can usually tell if its just "normal" sleep grunts, or if it will escalate to something more. I try not to wake her unless I'm prepared for the consequences.

I am having a difficult time deciding if the grunts are gas related, though.

Sonadora · November 2011

I never got her up until she was awke and fussing. Grunting I ignored because at that stage we were already having a "good" night if she would sleep for an hour in a row. If I had to get up for grunts too I would have been up every 15 minutes every night...and we already had many nights like that.

samm1983 · November 2011

I let him grunt. Sometimes he goes back to sleep or stays asleep (I don't think he is really awake when he is grunting) and sometimes he lets me know that he really does need to get up.

Junebug060609 · November 2011

I learned an important lesson last week with DS. For days on end I'd been jumping up with him at his every wimper (he sleeps in a PNP right next to me) and then one day he fell asleep for a nap and I set him down in there, put on the monitor, and went downstairs. Several times during that 'nap' he would grunt or even cry out. I'd make my way in to peek in on him and he'd be sound asleep. Because I let him be, he ended up napping for 6 glorious hours. I think the grunting/calling out was just a phase of his sleep as it seemed to alternate with spells where he was comatose to the world.

Since my little epiphany I now let him be until he cries for real. Both he and I seem to be sleeping better because of it.

Karen1998 · November 2011

I let him grunt. Around 6-8w his tone changed for him telling me if he was hungry at night. He's never cared that he has a loaded diaper, so grunting never indicated that.

Grunting for us almost always indicated gas/colic. When it was really bad, he'd literally grunt all.night.long. He sleeps in the RnP next to my side of the bed, so he'd keep me up all night with his grunting. Sometimes giving him the pacifier and rocking him in the RnP would help, but usually he'd just grunt in his sleep until the colic period passed. It was horrible to watch too as he'd grunt and throw his head from side to side in his sleep. Thankfully, he seems to have outgrown that now.

Also, if your LO just needs to fart, you can try this trick. Take his feet and pull them up to his head, while leaving his legs mostly straight. It's essentially a pike position. From what I read, you're supposed to leave them there for 20 seconds, but it always makes DS strain a bit, so I only do it for 5 seconds and do four sets of it. It works quite well at squeezing out the farts as it compresses his intestines. However, if you can, wait a bit before doing it after a feeding as it can increase spit up if you do it immediately after.

Want a personalized experience?

grunting at night

Re: grunting at night

Choose Another Board

Search Boards