My baby, born 29 weeks before Christmas, had been home less than a week when after a feed on sunday, I noticed him go stiff and my arm turn wet. I. looked down at him and his back was arched, his body stiff, he was dark red, looked shocked, drooling and not breathing. I shouted his name a couple of times which caused my husband to come over and take him from me. He quickly started breathing again without any help. at that moment my flat intercom went so I grabbed him and ran to the entrance to my mum. The staff called an ambulance and we've been here since.
first night doctor said it's reflux and if he wasn't a still preterm baby he'd be sending him home. next day the doctor on the ward isn't so convinced, he would have had milk, not be drooling if it was reflux but otoh his heartrate goes up and his O2 down when he's on his back and given his prematurity it's probably a good idea to start him on gaviscon and ranitidine.
he's had a chesi xray and ecg which looked normal but the eeg didn't. I suspected something when the guy drew a wave, left the room and then a lady looked through the window at his computer and when he came back he said "10 more minutes" after already saying that ten mini before... they've not. given any answers yet as they wanted a US and CTG first. US was today and CTG first thing. I'm expecting it to be Saturday at the earliest he's let out.
about two weeks before he was let out of NNU he had what sounds like the same thing. it really shook up the staff, which seemed odd, if it was just an arrest I'd have thought they'd be usedto it. I wasn't there at the time and obviously they weren't there the second time so we can't be sure it was the same.
it's like some nightmare scene in a film with a CGI baby or something, he was fine so quickly I wasn't sure it was real but it keeps coming back to me.
I could do with some sympathy/ empathy/ advice/ anything 