loeylo
1DD, 1 pup, WTT#2
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Firstly, I suffer from health anxiety and I have been known to over-react about medical things. I'm making a conscious decision to be "better" and not cause my daughter to worry excessively about her health or the health of those around her. Sometimes I find it difficult to differentiate between "normal" worries and excessive and irrational worries, so I'm just looking o see if these concerns are legitimate before I contact a health professional. I have already phoned triage three times since leaving hospital at 3 days post section (now on day 10) - I am actually really proud that I was reassured by what I was told by the midwives, as in the past I have not believed reassuring advice and my anxiety has built and built.
My concerns are:
1) my babies breathing. She goes through stages of panting really fast, almost as though she is sobbing but without actually crying. It is as though she is struggling to breathe. She does this for maybe 30 seconds at a time a few times per night.
This worries me because my cousin use to stop breathing in his sleep as a baby and he apparently did the exact same thing. Neither set of grandparents have ever heard a baby do that before, aside from my mum with my cousin. My cousin nearly died and had to wear a special monitor which went off if he stopped breathing.
2) my incision. I'm 10 days on from an emergency c section, and I had been feeling really good - I have been out for lunch a few times, been round the shops, etc. For the past 24 hours, one side of my incision is causing me pain. It doesn't look infected or anything, but my bleeding (vaginal) has increased slightly and now has some small clots, and has gone from reddish brown to pinkish red.
My concerns are:
1) my babies breathing. She goes through stages of panting really fast, almost as though she is sobbing but without actually crying. It is as though she is struggling to breathe. She does this for maybe 30 seconds at a time a few times per night.
This worries me because my cousin use to stop breathing in his sleep as a baby and he apparently did the exact same thing. Neither set of grandparents have ever heard a baby do that before, aside from my mum with my cousin. My cousin nearly died and had to wear a special monitor which went off if he stopped breathing.
2) my incision. I'm 10 days on from an emergency c section, and I had been feeling really good - I have been out for lunch a few times, been round the shops, etc. For the past 24 hours, one side of my incision is causing me pain. It doesn't look infected or anything, but my bleeding (vaginal) has increased slightly and now has some small clots, and has gone from reddish brown to pinkish red.