diff --git a/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberThrow.new.js b/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberThrow.new.js
index 9dd9df6d0cfe5..01ab69cecee66 100644
--- a/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberThrow.new.js
+++ b/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberThrow.new.js
@@ -256,7 +256,15 @@ function throwException(
         // Note: It doesn't matter whether the component that suspended was
         // inside a blocking mode tree. If the Suspense is outside of it, we
         // should *not* suspend the commit.
-        if ((workInProgress.mode & BlockingMode) === NoMode) {
+        //
+        // If the suspense boundary suspended itself suspended, we don't have to
+        // do this trick because nothing was partially started. We can just
+        // directly do a second pass over the fallback in this render and
+        // pretend we meant to render that directly.
+        if (
+          (workInProgress.mode & BlockingMode) === NoMode &&
+          workInProgress !== returnFiber
+        ) {
           workInProgress.flags |= DidCapture;
           sourceFiber.flags |= ForceUpdateForLegacySuspense;
 
diff --git a/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberThrow.old.js b/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberThrow.old.js
index 8d338d552d7d6..47c09919410ea 100644
--- a/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberThrow.old.js
+++ b/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberThrow.old.js
@@ -256,7 +256,14 @@ function throwException(
         // Note: It doesn't matter whether the component that suspended was
         // inside a blocking mode tree. If the Suspense is outside of it, we
         // should *not* suspend the commit.
-        if ((workInProgress.mode & BlockingMode) === NoMode) {
+        //
+        // If the suspense boundary suspended itself suspended, we don't have to
+        // do this trick because nothing was partially started. We can just
+        // directly do a second pass over the fallback in this render.
+        if (
+          (workInProgress.mode & BlockingMode) === NoMode &&
+          workInProgress !== returnFiber
+        ) {
           workInProgress.flags |= DidCapture;
           sourceFiber.flags |= ForceUpdateForLegacySuspense;