How many breaths per minute is normal for a 5 1/2 week old?

[princessmel]

Thanks.

Hi
one finger typing as feeding sorry for mistakes in advance

i'm a GP

she may well have had a virus yesterday but its possible to have secondary bacterial infections on top - so things may have changes

essentially if you feel she is worse in any way - breathing faster - working harder to breathe (take her clothes off and look at her chest - is she sucking in very hard so her ribs stick out or does she appear to be sucking in the muscles at the bottom of the chest) is she feeding less etc. if so take her back to Gp today. they shouldn't mind and should have explained if things gets worse, she needs to be seen today.

not back on mumsnet for a while but hope that helps

Hi all, just thought I'd let you know that we ended up in hospital. I took him back to the gp's on friday and they sent us back to A & E in an ambulance. His breathing was fast and he had ressesions in his tummy, I could see his ribs sticking out. When the ambulance came into the room they put an oxygen mask on him and we went to hosp with lights and siren on. Very scary.
He was head bobbing and using his accessory muscles to breathe , plus he had a tuck in his neck.
He stayed in hospital from friday to sunday evening.
He was on oxygen and a drip as feeding was too much of an effort for him.
They said his normal breathing should be about 45-50 breaths per minute, some of the time it was in the late 70's. His sats were between 93 and 100 on the day we went home.

Thank you for helping me when I was worried.
He is currently asleep on me after a bf.

Gosh Princessmel, we just had this on the weekend with our 2.8 month old - also went to see the GP, she whipped out a mask there and then in the room, then called an ambulance and went off to A & E - his sats were 75 when we got there. When he was discharged yesterday he was around 92 - they were happy to let him go as he was causing a bit of a rumpus in the wards - all the meds had made him totally hyper and in their words "couldn't sit still"

So glad your DS is better now - SO SO scary, even more so with a baby so young

Sorry, that should be our 2.8 YEAR old...

Sorry to hear that Princessmel, I had a feeling thats what might happen. Bloody horrible isn't it. Glad you are out and all fine now.