Do you mean sucking in by the ribs!?
My baby was born at 31 weeks and has always breathed like this. Lungs are fine never needed oxygen.
Not long after being discharged home the outreach team noticed her sucking in and sent us to the hospital to be checked over on the children’s assessment ward and the doctors on there went mad saying I can’t believe she’s been breathing like this at home etc totally unnecessary.
Me and dad was not concerned. They found a heart murmur so we had to stay in overnight.
We was on the sats monitor all night ..which showed she was fine her oxygen levels have always been good and she’s never needed oxygen I ended up taking the sats probe off by the morning as it was not needed.
She also had a blood gas which was fine.
She had a sputum sample taken which showed she had no viruses.
Because of the heart murmur we had to have a heart echo which took a hour and I had to pin her down while she cried ..heart echo showed no defects and it was absolutely perfect and the heart murmur was harmless.
We had a lung X-ray which showed her lungs are fine ..which we already knew.
They also wanted a ECG in which they tried to use adult sized stickers on a premature baby and sent her into an absolute panic and I told them no more tests they had done enough on her.
The doctor was not happy he said he had no more tests to do and couldn’t find the cause the only things found was a harmless murmur and anemia which we was already on medication for.
I was keen to get home as I knew my baby was ok and the doctor was very reluctant.. my baby still has sucking in now but it’s not as severe I told the doctor her belly was always measuring very small when she was growing inside me and when she feeds it goes massive and will probably push her lungs up and maybe she just needs to grow into her body plus with the anemia which can make you breathless.
Doctor said yeah maybe but I think his ego was hurt as he thought he was going to find something very bad and wasn’t happy being wrong he even got a second opinion on the heart echo.