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Distress SignalNewborn · 0 to 3mo07 Aug

Is it normal to lie awake listening to them breathe even when you are exhausted enough to sleep standing up? Asking for me.

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As Muttering Kestrel 256 · 0/400
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Completely normal. Every man I know has done it. Newborn breathing is genuinely irregular, pauses and snuffles and all sorts, and it settles down after a few weeks. Read the safer sleep list once, follow it, then let yourself sleep.

Weary Kestrel 33 · 07 Aug

Two kids in and I still do it occasionally. It never fully goes.

Unflappable Moth 91 · 07 Aug