Hopefully, the information offered here will assist during this period of transition by helping you and your new baby to learn about each other and to be comfortable with each other. Straining with bowel movements, passing gas, stomach rumblings, and spitting up small amounts after feedings are all common infant behaviors. Chin trembling, lower lip quivering, and startling are due to an immature nervous system. Irregular breathing and short pauses in your baby s breathing is normal. If your baby is content, the respiratory rate is less than 60 breaths per minute, a pause is less than 15 seconds, and your baby doesn t turn blue, you need not be concerned about your baby s breathing.
Babies often make throat clearing or gurgling sounds and make noises during sleep.
Trembling of an infant s arms and legs during crying. Convulsions are rare. Activity Infants have their own inner clock which tells them when to wake, when to sleep, and when to eat. Let your baby sleep and eat when your baby wants to. Newborns eat and sleep with an occasional wakeful or fussy period.