I have a six week old baby (my first) who has recently started to wake up in the night coughing and literally choking. She can't breathe for a few seconds so I lift her up, pat her on the back and then she is okay. But it scares the hell out of me. She already seemed to me to have reflux issues though the doctor didn't seem that interested and said it was normal.
She has had this choking thing for two days. It happened again last night so I took her to the children's hospital. They only seemed interested in the cough, checking her for whooping cough etc. Nobody seemed to listen or care about the choking part.
They sent us home, but I am still worried as it keeps happening. To be fair, she now has diarrhoea so maybe she is sick (I've to go back of she has more than five episodes in 24 hours), but it doesn't seem like that is related to the choking.
Could she have sleep apnea? Has anyone here had a child with that and if so what were the symptoms?
I'm not sure if I am overreacting but even if I'm not, I don't know how to get them to take me seriously. They are the experts but this is so frightening. I'm worried she will choke and die.