Dribbling

[Lilelephant]

O is dribbling loads and tonight he choked on salvia and was throwing it up and coughing really bad for ages we were nearly on our way to a@e but he stopped!

I am so worried he is gonna choke in his sleep!! What can I do? We have a movement alarm on our monitor but I dunno maybe try lying him slightly on his side so it runs out his mouth? Eek

 

[Monkey]

Supposedly babies are able to get liquids out of their mouth even when on their back. I had expressed concerns about E choking on vomit while asleep as she would posit a lot and that is what the mw in hospital had told me. I would think it would be the same with saliva, though you are his mummy so you know your baby best so do what feels right.

 

[Maria1977]

OMG hun, this happened with Oz from about 2 weeks old, he used to choke on it really badly.

I rushed him to gp after one episode and he thought I was MENTAL Then I went to HV and she didn't understand what i was talking about either

I learnt though that eventually they do learn to swallow their saliva, but it's so frightening hearing htem choke on it.

We had to sleep Oz on his sides, he couldn't sleep on his back, once it started it started happening loads. He still sleeps more on his sides now. It was another reason co-sleeping worked for us, coz we didn't wanna let him out our sight lol

xxxx

 

[littlemiss83]

this is what was happening to Kayden, he wasn't actually choking like the sound you would imagine tho, it was more...getting cought in his throat if that makes sense & blocking his airway, it was stomach acid and/or saliva as you know he had blue episodes struggled to breathe, but he was diagnosed with severe acid reflux & all the other symptoms matched up too, but one of the symptoms of that is also excessive drolling & no joke he would soak thro his t.shirts in 2 hours.

Hope O is better soon. There's not much you can do apart from the movement monitor, I watch LO like a hawk but its not a nice way to live wish there was another way around it - elevate cot by 30 degrees thats all I can suggest.

xxxxxx

 

[Hunnie]

Sophie did the same this morning when she was trying to make a different sound! Scared the crap out of me!!

 

[LoopyLouize]

Same as! I put it down to the reflux but this thread has made me realise it seems to be quite common x

 

[clairebear22]

Apparantly a baby will naturally turn their head to one side if they're sick when lying on their backs? Don't know how true that is though. Jack never chocked in his sleep but did some pretty impressive projectile vomiting in the early days ... always at 2am after a feed and always just as he was layed back into his basket! lol x

 

[littlemiss83]

My mum said when I was a baby everyone put baby on front to sleep coz being scared of choking was a biiiig thing. Now we're not allowed to do that. I still sleep on my front now, OH thinks i'm wierd

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[clairebear22]

I used to be a front sleeper, until the epidural and having Jack messed my back up! Now I have to sleep on my side or my back is painful x