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Infant Noises in Sleep

Published Jun,13 2017 | By Shannon Thorn

Whoever coined the phrase “sleeping like a baby” must not have lived with a newborn: babies are noisy sleepers, and new parents are treated to a nightly symphony of grunts, whimpers, snorts and yelps.

Shannon Thorn began writing and editing in 1990. She received a Roy H. Park Fellowship for graduate study in medical journalism at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since 2004, she has focused primarily on editing educational materials for health professionals. Thorn holds a Master of Science in speech-language pathology from UNC-Chapel Hill and is a practicing speech-language pathologist.