My 3 month old DD wakes up in the morning gagging. It is very scary as she looks like she is choking, not coughing. Her eyes bulge out and she just makes little gag noises as she tries to take in a breath but she cannot.
I pick her up, turn her onto her front and pat her back and that clears it but of course I am really scared that she will do this when I am fast asleep and unable to help her, and she will not be able to recover on her own. So I am spending most nights wide awake listening.
She sounds really conjested in the morning, like she has lots of plegm in her chest, so I am sure the gagging is caused by mucus going the wrong way. She does not have a cold.
I have tilted the crib so her head is slightly raised, left a kettle on in the room to make it humid, used olibas oil, but it still happens about 2-3 times a week.
It started at 8 weeks.
I am now thinking it is a dust might allergy as the bedroom is the only room with carpets - she is in a crib next to our bed. Her father's family has asthma & ecsema and he had a lot of allergies as a child.
I was hoping that someone could say they had the same problem and solved it. I have searched the net a lot and come up with nothing. Is my baby the only one to do this? Please help!