Baby 'holds breath' whilst feeding- advice welcomed!

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I am posting on behalf of a friend with a young baby. Baby has been checked out at the hospital who diagnosed reflux. However the baby is not a sicky or windy baby, and had been feeding well until recently.

She is being breast fed and is gaining weight well.

I've advised blowing into her face when she does it but this is not consistent with what I thought to be the usual symptoms of reflux so i am somewhat confuddled by this!

Thanks in advance.

Maybe nose is blocked due to cold?

I presume that the paed thinks it's silent reflux then, which can be quite hard to diagnose. What symptoms does she have?

I thought that blowing in a baby's face was supposed to make it hold its breath, not stop it from holding it?

Cold does sound like a likely explanation, if it's a new thing.

She doesn't have a cold, and the 'breath holding' only occurs during feeding. We are wondering if she takes in too much milk and is struggling to swallow it all at once or something. Just not sure what to advise- she apparently holds it for so long she actually turns blue on occasion which sounds very scary.

My ds had silent reflux and did this. Does she start breathing again when she is taken off the breast? I would have to let ds have five or six sucks, take him off until he had a few big breaths, and then latch him back on again. It was quite hard to do when he was really hungry, but he got the hang of breathing within a month or so.