Pyrrhic
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I posted a few days ago about Niamh being ill.
For weeks now she's been breathing in a funny way. Actually, when I think about it she's done it from birth. She's always had very raspy breathing, which they told me was due to mucus after the birth but surely that can't still be the case? She often gulps a lot like she's struggled to get enough air. Often when she goes down to sleep she'll wake up after a few minutes and start gulping rapidly and crying. This happens for about 1 hour before she'll eventually tire herself out so she'll sleep. Today she also had very rapid, raspy breathing.
I kept telling people she wasn't breathing properly (OH, Mum, Health Visitor, etc) but they all acted like I was over reacting as a first time Mum. Tonight my Mum babysat for 2 hours and called me in a panic about Niamh's breathing, and rang a friend who is a nurse for advice. She's had four children and said she's never worried a much as she had looking after Niamh and said she'd never heard a baby breath like that.
Has anyone got any experience of anything like this? Someone suggested to me that it could be related to colic or reflux, which would fit in with how sick she's been recently. I have the health visitor coming tomorrow and Mum is sticking around to help me put my foot down.
Niamh's been awake now since 6pm as every time she falls asleep she wakes up again gulping for air. She's not really been sick today though.
For weeks now she's been breathing in a funny way. Actually, when I think about it she's done it from birth. She's always had very raspy breathing, which they told me was due to mucus after the birth but surely that can't still be the case? She often gulps a lot like she's struggled to get enough air. Often when she goes down to sleep she'll wake up after a few minutes and start gulping rapidly and crying. This happens for about 1 hour before she'll eventually tire herself out so she'll sleep. Today she also had very rapid, raspy breathing.
I kept telling people she wasn't breathing properly (OH, Mum, Health Visitor, etc) but they all acted like I was over reacting as a first time Mum. Tonight my Mum babysat for 2 hours and called me in a panic about Niamh's breathing, and rang a friend who is a nurse for advice. She's had four children and said she's never worried a much as she had looking after Niamh and said she'd never heard a baby breath like that.
Has anyone got any experience of anything like this? Someone suggested to me that it could be related to colic or reflux, which would fit in with how sick she's been recently. I have the health visitor coming tomorrow and Mum is sticking around to help me put my foot down.
Niamh's been awake now since 6pm as every time she falls asleep she wakes up again gulping for air. She's not really been sick today though.
I am running on three hours sleep from last night and I'm wondering how many more nights like this I can take.
Hun have you tried elevating Niamh for an hour in her bouncer after feeds and roll a towel under her mattress to see if that helps. Katie & Joe both had reflux and were very noisy breathers. 
