DD will be six months old next week. She is our first baby to come home (sadly lost our first born at 33 weeks), so everything is very new to us.
Before Christmas she started making this high pitched wheezing inhaling sound. It almost sounds like she's suddenly gasping for breath. It was mostly when she was excited or upset. We asked the health visitor about it (she actually made the noise whilst we were there), and she said it's really common and a lot of babies make that noise and it usually stops by age 1.
It actually seemed to stop suddenly probably 3 or so weeks ago, and to be honest I'd forgotten all about it. However, yesterday evening she started making the noise again and has been doing it loads today. Again, it's when she's happy/excited or when she's getting upset and crying, or sometimes when she's just 'chatting' and gurgling to herself. It seems to happen more when she's on her back too. She doesn't make it whilst she's asleep, and there's no signs that she's struggling to breathe i.e. no sucking in at the ribs or nostrils flaring. I'm going to take her to the doctor's on Monday now as it's making me quite anxious when I hear it, but has anyone else had their little one make this sound?
I'm not sure if it's related, but she's also started having a complete meltdown when going to sleep. We have to rock her to sleep and she is becoming really distressed and again making the wheezing/screeching sound.
Sorry for the long post, just really looking to hear if anyone else has had anything similar. Thank you 🙂