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[Anonymous]

Please tell me what to do!!!! I just puit my 5 week old down in her bassinette and crawled into my bed with my 2 1/2 yr old to go to sleep. I thought i heard her waking up so i looked over at her. She had milk coming out of her nose and mouth!!!! She was choking and i had to grab her up and get the syringe to get her airway cleared again!! THis is the first time she has done this. My son had some reflux but he rarely spit up. I’ll never be able to go to sleep now.

[Anonymous]

Try and elevate her basinette if you can. Or you might want to try a tucker wedge/sling combo. This will help with the spit up coming out of the nose. Hailey has had these kind of episodes many times, and that is why she sleeps in our room- because I was also afraid of her chocking. Elevating her sleep surface might offer some relief.

I just wanted to add that we did not use a wedge sling for Hailey b/c she needed to be held to sleep. So maybe others can help on this.

s&h’s mum2006-4-28 9:20:59

[Anonymous]

Does she sleep on her back?? I know that’s what the experts reccommend, but I think it’s dangerous for that very reason. I always used a positioner to put my babies on their sides until they got too big to use it anymore. (If you do put her down on her side, make sure you alternate which side you lay her on each time, otherwise she may develop a mishapen head from constant pressure on one side of the head. This happened with my first baby becuase I always put her on her left side).

Some mom’s with refluxers let their babies sleep on their tummies, but you’d have to have a monitor then. I think Laura posted once about where to get one. Hopefully, she’ll see this and post it again. I think it was called angel care. If I had known about monitors I would have bought one and let all of my babies sleep on their tummies from birth.

For now, maybe try side sleeping. It’s safer I think. In fact laying a person on their side is what is taught in CPR classes. I think they call it the rescue position. If you have to leave an injured or sick person to go get help, you leave them on their side, not on their back, so if they vomit they don’t aspirate. That’s why I don’t understand this back sleeping thing with babies. I never felt comfortable putting my newborns on their backs in bed.

[hellbennt]

You might want to try tummy sleeping?

This is from the American Academy of Pediatrics & how they recommend that tummy sleeping is best for GERD babies. http://www.aap.org/new/sids/question.htm (thanks Sherry & Christine!)

There’s a monitor that you can use called the Angel Care Monitor that many of the parents on this board have had great success with. Jonah was sent home with a monitor from the hospital, so I don’t know firsthand about the Angel Care monitor, but here’s all about it: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/search.asp?KW=angelcare&am p;SM=2&SI=TC&FM=0&OB=2

BEANIE BABY: for day time naps I suggest this: Try putting her on her tummy & put a beanie baby on her back for 2 reasons- to see that she’s breathing (the beanie baby will go up & down )

& for the weight- put your hand on her back & then slowly leave it & the beanie baby is there instead…

For sleeping, there’s also the Tucker Sling that people rave about: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/search.asp?KW=tucker&S M=1&SI=TC&FM=0&OB=2

as well as the Amby Hammock: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/search.asp?KW=amby&SM= 1&SI=TC&FM=0&OB=2

~laura

ps: what SAVED US (& I mean me, my dh, even my MOTHER & babysitter) was Babywearing: https://www.infantreflux.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1044&a mp;a mp;PN=1 (a lot of folks on this board have found it to be great, too !)

AND: http://www.thebabywearer.com has a ‘Babywearers Near You’ forum (http://www.thebabywearer.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=44)- you have to sign up, but it’s free… And there’s this site to find others near you http://www.wearyourbaby.com/Default.aspx?tabid=87 & there’s this one: http://www.nineinnineout.org/localgroups.htm

[Anonymous]

I had an angel care with my first, it never got great reception in any place we put it in either house we lived in, plus it kept giving us false alarms…but that was 6 years ago, my sister bought one also, last year and the same thing happened to her.. , my son has slept on an ar pillow ( acid reflux pillow) that I bought on the net since he was 7 weeks old. he loves it (although now he’s a bit attached to sleeping on it and I think transitioning to “regular” sleeping positions is going to be hard)Aidansmom792006-4-28 15:18:18

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