> Then he let go, respirations, which were getting faster and faster during
> the feed were now at 80 per minute (I counted the full minute, not just
> counted for 10 seconds and multiply).  No signs of flaring of the nostrils
> or chest retractions, no signs of nose stuffiness.  He would let go of the
> breast, start mouth breathing for 15 minutes or so, then go to nose
> breathing and the respirations would slow down to about 60.  Never did I
> see any signs of blueness to lips, fingers, mouth, etc.  Intake was .3 oz.

I think I would like this babies' nasal airways cheked for any kind of
obstruction. It resembles IMO what we see in my family, a not-symmetrical
dividing of the 2 nose-halfs (don't know how to describe this better in
English), where the wall between nose-halfs is not like this: | but more like
this: / . The result of this anatomical variation, that is not visible from the
outside, the nose seems symmetrical by looking in the face, is that
nose-breathing is possible, but more difficult and that children tend to
mouth-breathing. Since infants are primairily nose-breathers it will confuse the
infants's instincts.

Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC, living in Maaseik, Belgium
http://www.users.skynet.be/eurolac
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