I was in the grocers today and the lady ahead of me was unloading and I swear the baby in the grocery cart seat was snoring.
It wasn’t an infant type baby, but he looked young. He could sit up obviously 'cause he was in the cart.
He wasn’t breathing irregular or anything but it sounded like an adult snoring, only much softer. I guess maybe he had a cold, I guess that could cause a similar thing, but it got me to thinking, do babies in general snore?
I don’t have kids so I wouldn’t know. I’ve babysat but never heard any kids snore, but babysitting isn’t like being around them enough to know.
My Little Bit has snored pretty much since he was born. I’ve never had trouble sleeping because of it, though. It’s always been comforting to me. I loved waking up and being able to hear his breathing from across the room.
My son sounded like a little dinosaur in his sleep when he was very young. I had to learn over the first two months not to jump up at every little sound he made while sleeping. It was super adorable.
All three of my babies snored to some degree. More so because babies tend to get nasal congestion very easily, and that just encourages snoring/noisier breathing when asleep.
My problem wasn’t sleeping through the snoring, it was every time she stopped snoring, I’d sit bolt upright in bed believing she’d stopped breathing and have to check (or frequently, I’d sit bolt upright in the silence and then “zzzzz, zzzzzz, zzzzz.”)
She’d eleven, she’s still breathing, she seldom snores.
Actually, more babies snore than kids do. It’s got something to do with the shape and flaccidity of their schnozzles, but I don’t recall all the details. As they grow and they lose their little shmooshy noses (which are perfectly shaped for not suffocating while breastfeeding), their sinuses expand and cartilage turns to bone and they snore less.
Well, looking at what WhyNot said, it looks like they snore because they’re pretty much perfectly designed to do what babies do, which is pretty much eat, poop and sleep!
I like to think of baby snores as nature’s own baby monitors. If they’re (gently*) snoring, you know they’re breathing!
*If the snoring is rough, disturbs their sleep or especially if it’s new for that baby, then they should be checked out just to make sure there’s nothing wrong, of course. But if they’ve always snored, it’s gentle and there are no other symptoms, it’s fine.
Babies definitely snore. In my experience, babies are really snotty more or less from birth to whenever their nasal passages are large enough that their snot doesn’t wake them up. It always felt to me like they had an adult quantity of boogers and snot, but baby-sized nasal passages, making them snore, snort and startle themselves awake frequently, one reason both my kids slept on an incline for as long as they could safely sit in a baby seat.
My son stopped snoring and waking up frequently due to his own boogers around 2.5. My daughter still snores intermittently at 17 months, but sleeps through the night for the most part. She sounds like Darth Vader sometimes, though. Both kids have allergies, so that definitely has a lot to do with the snoring.
