...about the baby with Downs with a blue tongue...

Anne wrote:

"Sounds like cyanosis to me, probably more obvious to the Mom on the
baby's tongue than anywhere else. Hypoxia could result from the baby
having a hard time breathing right after vomiting, or a vagal
bradycardia kind of thing, or a heart defect as Rachel  mentioned, which
Down's children are at higher risk for."

...and according to my son's cardiologist and feeding specialist, babies
with heart defects are at higher risk for reflux.  Their bodies shunt the
blood away from the GI system in an attempt to oxygenate the "critical"
organs, such as the brain, thereby making it harder to digest food.

Trish

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