My lb was born on 18/9/19 and for the first 14 hours of his life was fine. He started showing signs of struggle and irritability so the midwife on the ward took him away to be checked, he got whisked down to SCBU unit and I wasn't allowed to see him for hours. When I went down to the unit with my parter he was on CPAP, feeding tube and all the monitors ect. The Dr's and nurses were pretty confused as to why he took ill so randomly as usually with diseases like RDS symptoms can be spotted much sooner after birth.. my lb was born 37+2 via elective section and weighed 7lb when born, big boy! I had steroid injections prior to surgery. He ended up being intibated the following day, when he was taken to SCBU his blood oxygen was very low about half of what it should be and Dr's now suspected brain damage. This was ruled out after sevral tough days on brain monitoring, along with heart scans ect which have all came back good. Yesterday he under went a endoscopy as when they extubated him 5 days ago he struggled and whimpered whilst arching his back and had to be given 2 adrenaline nebulizer and steroids, and was then intubated again and has been ever since. It seemed as if he had an issue with his little throat passing air into his lungs, as lung scans and tests are showing nothing alarming that would cause his inhability to breathe unaided. The last 8 days have been very difficult and I'd just like to know if any other mums have had a similar experience? The doctors not fully understanding what the issue is after sevral tests on major organs coming back fine? I don't understand why he can't breathe without the tube, he received surfactant through his ventilator tube. This helped, and they didn't think his lungs were the problem. If its not his lungs and its not his throat, what could it be! He's currently being sedated for being too active, pulling out cannulas for anti bitiocs and morphine. They put him on muscle relaxent so he's very sleepy and I find this a little unsettling and unnecessary as docrots are saying his obs, blood gas and infection markers all come back fine. He is also taking every single breath above the ventilator when not sedated and nurses said he's very well they just don't know why he can't breathe unaided!!! Sooo confused about it all!