Babies express their emotions through crying and other emission of sounds, in most cases to ask or claim your needs. If your baby growls a lot you have to think that it's his way of revealing his own language and it can mean something.
Boys and girls they have to supply infinite emotions and receive many stimuli. From 0 to 3 months they feel an infinity of sensations and must express them through sounds or another type of exhibition. As it grows grunts may express some kind of imposition because you need something at this time, although you have to know how to recognize what it is.
What does it mean when a baby growls?
The growl is the short guttural noise. If it is issued by the baby it will be to create some kind of communication or to indicate some kind of effort. Generally they usually do them to relieve tension, or when they are frustrated and need to show it or simply because they are bored.
When the baby has to indicate the gesture of effort, they frown and grunt, is when they indicate that they are going to defecate due to their bowel movements. As it grows, the counterpart to the growls may appear, since the baby may adapt it to make it more demanding.
The child towards the end of the year may still I use it as a means of communication and very regularly, in this case it is not necessary to give much importance, but it is associated with growling baby syndrome (GBS). If you notice that this sound is emitted with more insignificant symptoms such as redness of the face or shortness of breath, you should consult your pediatrician.
Why does my baby growl a lot?
The main reason they can growl a lot It is because of its form of expression and as a means of communication. The baby he can't speak and emits the grunts accompanied by small squeals and laughter. It is their form of entertainment and most likely want to get people's attention.
Bowel movements during your bowel movement is another way of expressing it through grunts. The baby has underdeveloped muscles and when he pushes his stool he makes him express it with gestures and sounds. When a lot of pressure is created due to being constipated, you can see that it is when you push down on the diaphragm accompanied by the effort to evacuate. This is when redness appears on the face and growls.
There are babies who grunt a lot while they are breastfeeding. It may happen that you are making the effort to suck and your demand for milk is in excess. In this case, children feel anguish because their digestive system consumes a lot of milk in a single feeding and creates discomfort. The rapid absorption of the milk mixes as you inhale the air and that is when they growl.
Your breathing can also cause grunting. When the child is awake he can create a yawn accompanied by sighs, causing the lungs to fill with oxygen and accompanied by these sounds. But other children express it when they are asleep.
While they are asleep they make noises depending on the shape of the palate and your nose. There are babies who are very apprehensive about expressing small snoring while they sleep and this is because their respiratory system can cause grunting. In this case if it is very constant and very annoying, you can always Go to the pediatrician for an assessment of this situation.
Other and much more serious cases can occur because they have some type of associated disease. This time the growl is accompanied by regular intervals in each breath, accompanied by anguish and bronchial sounds. It can become a serious issue because it can lead to specific diseases such as heart problems, lung problems, meningitis or sepsis.
However, each child is a different world, there are babies that begin to growl at 2 or 3 weeks of age and they stop at 3 months of age. There will be children who never growl and others who continually are. As long as your child is healthy and sleeps well, there is no need to worry.