Elisheva wrote:

< I
guess what you are saying, basically, is, Probably she's just a more
anxious
type of person -- that this seems to you an primarily emotional respnse
on
the baby's part, rather than a respiratory issue.>

Well, no. That seems sort of like labeling the baby, and devaluing the
overhelming, devastating  chemical experience of oxygen desaturation by
categorizing it as "primarily an emotional response on the baby's part".

Suffocation is more than an emotional response. It is a horrifying
physical sensation, blood stream unable to deliver oxygen to the brain or
anything else, catacholamine levels high, effecting heart beat, blood
pressure, fruitless respiratory efforts.   regardless if it's from a
respiratory defect or from smothering or choking, aspiration, what have
you.

For the baby's sake, I hope there is no actual respiratory defect found.
But any episode of near-choking on an overwhelming flood of milk
cascading into the area of the epiglottis and trachea, I think must be a
horrifying physical sensation. Just MHO.

Jean
************
K. Jean Cotterman RNC, IBCLC
Dayton, Ohio USA



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