diff --git a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzServer-test.js b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzServer-test.js
index e16b2189b37f6..9d308c8e0acec 100644
--- a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzServer-test.js
+++ b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzServer-test.js
@@ -6131,4 +6131,55 @@ describe('ReactDOMFizzServer', () => {
     // However, it does error the shell.
     expect(fatalErrors).toEqual(['testing postpone']);
   });
+
+  it(
+    'a transition that flows into a dehydrated boundary should not suspend ' +
+      'if the boundary is showing a fallback',
+    async () => {
+      let setSearch;
+      function App() {
+        const [search, _setSearch] = React.useState('initial query');
+        setSearch = _setSearch;
+        return (
+          <div>
+            <div>{search}</div>
+            <div>
+              <Suspense fallback="Loading...">
+                <AsyncText text="Async" />
+              </Suspense>
+            </div>
+          </div>
+        );
+      }
+
+      // Render the initial HTML, which is showing a fallback.
+      await act(() => {
+        const {pipe} = renderToPipeableStream(<App />);
+        pipe(writable);
+      });
+
+      // Start hydrating.
+      await clientAct(() => {
+        ReactDOMClient.hydrateRoot(container, <App />);
+      });
+      expect(getVisibleChildren(container)).toEqual(
+        <div>
+          <div>initial query</div>
+          <div>Loading...</div>
+        </div>,
+      );
+
+      // Before the HTML has streamed in, update the query. The part outside
+      // the fallback should be allowed to finish.
+      await clientAct(() => {
+        React.startTransition(() => setSearch('updated query'));
+      });
+      expect(getVisibleChildren(container)).toEqual(
+        <div>
+          <div>updated query</div>
+          <div>Loading...</div>
+        </div>,
+      );
+    },
+  );
 });
diff --git a/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberBeginWork.js b/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberBeginWork.js
index 57a86e6984d80..abb4d54373560 100644
--- a/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberBeginWork.js
+++ b/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberBeginWork.js
@@ -2958,7 +2958,15 @@ function updateDehydratedSuspenseComponent(
       // TODO: We should ideally have a sync hydration lane that we can apply to do
       // a pass where we hydrate this subtree in place using the previous Context and then
       // reapply the update afterwards.
-      renderDidSuspendDelayIfPossible();
+      if (isSuspenseInstancePending(suspenseInstance)) {
+        // This is a dehydrated suspense instance. We don't need to suspend
+        // because we're already showing a fallback.
+        // TODO: The Fizz runtime might still stream in completed HTML, out-of-
+        // band. Should we fix this? There's a version of this bug that happens
+        // during client rendering, too. Needs more consideration.
+      } else {
+        renderDidSuspendDelayIfPossible();
+      }
       return retrySuspenseComponentWithoutHydrating(
         current,
         workInProgress,