Does anyone have any idea what this could be...? For the past couple of days my 20 wk old DS has been making alarming shrill and sharp intakes of breath, then often holding his breath.
It sometimes happens straight after a feed but also occurs during and occasionally quite a while after a feed.
At first I couldn't work out whether he was deliberately doing it (ie just making a new sound) because he seemed quite content while it was happening but now it seems more like an involuntary spasm as he's doing it mid feeds, it's waking him when he's trying to drift off to sleep and now actually seems to be distressing him.
He's exclusively breast fed and has been arching his back and coughing a little bit during feeds. He's also been very wriggly and unsettled the last few days, seems to have a permanent snotty nose and often pulls his ears so am thinking it could be teething, or reflux? Or both? Is it true there's a link between teething and digestive problems?