Have you ever had an infant who tended to stop breathing when they were asleep?
She has an appointment with the pediatrician in Wichita at 2:30 today.
Just wanted to be sure you knew we weren’t going to take action solely on what is said here.
Here’s the background: She had fraternal twins in January, 5 weeks premie. As far as premie, though, they did alright. Kale was just under 5 pounds, Savannah was just over.
They were released after 3 weeks, with an all clear, and sent home with breathing monitors.
The Dr. took them off of the monitors about 3 weeks ago.
Savannah has always been the bigger of the two. They’re both well over 10 pounds now, so physically they’re doing well.
Last night Savannah quit breathing. Corrie realized this, kind of shook her, and she started breathing again. She started by taking a gasping choke of air.
She did it again this morning.
I’ve been Googling and have found this is not unusual…but it would sure scare the crap out of me. I mean, my thought would be “What would have happened if I didn’t catch it???”
Have you ever experienced this?
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I haven’t thank goodness.
But, I do remember seeing a special kind of baby monitor, that Mama can place under the baby’s mattress. It’s a highly sensitive motion detector. If it stops sensing motion of any kind – that is, something as faint as the inhale-exhale of the baby, the klaxons will sound and Mama and Baby will most likely be awake for some time.
The worst reviews I’ve read is that sometimes people forget to turn it off after the baby wakes up, and the siren goes off after they take the kid out of the bed.
Fair trade for peace of mind, in my opinion.
here’s one
I figure that’s what they’ll do…put her back on a monitor. I wonder why it happens, though?
Man, @Seek_Kolinahr. Our local doctors are such freaking idiots. My daughter called to make an appointment. They said they can’t get the baby in until next week.
Corrie’s going “This is damn serious! What do you mean you can’t get her in until next WEEK??”
“Well, there’s nothing we can do.”
Morons.
Where’s Cheebdragon? She can throw some F words in for me!
If the child is in distress, go to the ER and the next step maybe to go into the Pediatric ward. My brother use to do that, but he was 4 or 5 years old.
A girlfriend of mine had her son on a monitor for a while after he was born. It was more than just a few weeks, but I am not sure how many months he was when they finally could take him off. She had to take CPR classes so she knew what to do if he stopped breathing and was not easily revived. He is a Sophomore in college now, but the beginning of his life was stressful for him and his parents. As far as I know he completely grew out of it.
Some people a part of their brain does not remind them to breath, especially problematic during sleep. I feel like my brain does that, but as far as I know that is not the case, and I have been through a sleep study. A jelly on here recently did a sleep study and if I remember correctly that is what they found about him.
Yeah, with 2 premies my daughter had to take infant CPR.
My husband quits breathing in his sleep. He’ll just stop for about 20 or 30 seconds, and come to with a great roar. He sounds like a freaking motorcycle starting up. I’ve learned to sleep right through it.
@Dutchess_III Your husband probably doesn’t breath because of his anatomy in his throat, which is different than the brain not sending the signal.
@Dutchess_III You just described sleep apnea very well. He should see a doctor who might refer him to a sleep disorder clinic.
Is he tired all the time? Fall asleep when sitting up?
One clarification, I have no idea what exactly is causing the baby to stop breathing. I wasn’t trying to imply it was caused by a brain message or anatomy, I have no idea.
@Dutchess_III, look up apnea of prematurity. That may be the issue.
Yes, my cousin’s son needed a breathing monitor for just less than the first year of life. By about 9mos, he regulated himself. If I recall correctly it was about age10mos that the monitor was no longer necessary. We took care of him often as she was fearful to let non-family babysit.
The monitor makes a high pitched beep. If the baby doesn’t wake up from the monitor signal, you physically check to feel for breath/pulse and reset the monitor.
As @JLeslie stated in her post, the parents took an infant CPR course, and in this case had an infant CPR poster in their kitchen for back up.
The son is now an adult. He is fine. I don’t know of any sleep issues he’s ever had after that point. Since we’re the only family left in this state with he & his family, we’d know of any health related issues.
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