We were at the mall and Brianna was acting somewhat odd. She had an odd look on her face and seemed kind of out of it. As we were changing her in one of the mall restrooms (after 3 failed attempts at finding a changing table), she started laboring in her breathing, wheezing and I think her lips started turning blue. Needless to say, I completely freaked out and picked her up and handed her to my mom. After a few seconds (though it felt like a lot more), she started crying and her breathing returned to normal. Of course we called the pediatrician right away who sent us to the emergency room.
I was on call this week so I planned to be going to the ED, but NOT for my daughter... thankfully, she had stabilized and the ED staff was very helpful in getting her through to the back in less than 5 minutes. After a chest x-ray and 3 hours, we were released with the diagnosis of reflux induced chocking. (She has been diagnosed with reflux since about 3 weeks old).
We went home with a somewhat happy Brianna and thought things would be back to normal. Six hours later as I was getting her ready for bed, it happened again. Of course this time I knew what to expect and she only wheezed for a few seconds. I had her up and screaming as soon as I recognized what was going on. Needless to say, I called the pedi once again and they recommended we come in to the clinic in the morning.
After a very sleepless night - and THANKFULLY no pages for me to the emergency room - we made it to the pediatrician without any more episodes. The pedi looked her over from head to toe and changed her reflux meds along with recommending we thicken her formula with rice cereal.
With the eventful day we had that day and the day before, Brianna was so overtired that we had to drive around for over a half an hour to get her to calm down enough to go to bed! Our poor new neighbors were just moving in yesterday and she was screaming nearly the whole time. I was tempted to introduce myself and appologize!
- a pic of her in her new carrier - one that is good for her hips so we don't have to worry about dislocating them! This was one of the ways I attempted to calm her down... it did work but only for a while.
Today she seems a bit better now that we have had her new med on board for a while and thickening her formula... Lets hope for the best~ We are just happy to know the cause of what happened and are praying for no more episodes!
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