baby hiccups after crying

Sobbing Spasms, Gasping, and Prolonged "Hiccups" in Babies - Zephyr HillA Family BlogSobbing Spasms, Gasping and Prolonged "Hiccups" in BabiesMay 23, 2014 by Note: I keep this post updated and keep reading and/or responding to comments! (2020) Babies do a lot of weird things when it comes to breathing, and most of them are normal, but when they face something that seems alarming, parents get scared understandably. Is it just hypo? Is it about crying too much? Well, something very strange happened to Benjamin (our room) when he was a baby, and then it happened to Samuel (our fifth) when he was a baby, and he scared us so much that we called 911, consulted several doctors and specialists and spent countless hours on Google trying to figure out the problem. I put on it a long time ago in a family medical forum and I continue to receive comments and questions to this day of parents seeing the same with their child. Almost all these parents have already visited their family doctor or ER and are still confused. Your child is told to simply have hypo or there is no answer. Before we start, I mean two things. (1) Thankfully, my two boys have overcome this strange and alarming problem. (2) This post is not intended to replace medical advice. It is to share what happened, and what we learned, in the hope that families who experience the same can receive some small hope and insight. What happened to baby Benjamin? I was about 8 weeks old and had been asleep an hour after the time of the belly and the infirmary that afternoon. I went to check it out and noticed an alarming breathing pattern. He was regularly sucking in his breath or "tracing" and then he would hold it for quite a while before resuming normal breathing. It was different from regular normal breathing that is common in young babies. I was a veteran mother, and I was so scared that I woke him up. The gaseous pattern and holding its breath and then relax continued. Benjamin was visibly uncomfortable with what was happening. We got scared and we called 911. (Our little daughter, Margaret, had just died of pneumonia and heart complications the previous year; you can imagine how the gun-shy were like parents.) What did the paramedics say? The paramedics came in and checked it out. His oxygen was fine. His heart was strong. They couldn't see or hear signs of obstruction. There were no obvious signs of an allergic reaction. He saw the strange pattern of breathing, but he was more sporadic and less pronounced by then. Your verdict? He had a bad case of hypo. If you guessed we weren't satisfied with that explanation, you guessed well. One week later it happened again, and this time it was triggered by an episode of crying. Here again is what happened: How exactly is it? Thanks to my readers, some videos have been shared with me after finding this post. This is what parents have observed. Then you can see how the respiratory spasms are at first, when the apnea is more pronounced. The part where the baby "takes advantage." For my son, it lasted even longer, maybe 3 to 5 seconds. You can see from the arms of the baby that rise that is a very nasty and terrifying thing! This baby is very awake, and you can see how distressed and fearful her breath is lost involuntarily. It's such a sharp intake, it almost seems painful. My boys have this same look on their faces. In this clip, you can see the later phase, where the apnea is less pronounced, or completely lost, and all that remains is a kind of hypo sound. If this is what your baby's spasms always seem, then it could be double breathing. shows the same phenomenon, accompanied by a strong stridor. A mother abroad shared the later phase, with spasms continuing during the deep sleep. Note: Stridor can be a sign of reflux or laryngomalacia. What my two boys experienced is none of the things listed below. Checking this list against your child's symptoms may be helpful: What did the pediatrician say? After the second episode, which made at least reassure us that Benjamin was not about to die, our next stop was the trust family doctor who has been in practice in a small town for more than 35 years and has delivered hundreds of babies. Benjamin was right in the middle of an episode. And our doctor was puzzled. He expressed our undecided thoughts. "These aren't just hypo," he said. "I've never seen this before, so all I can tell you is that something is causing your airway to close briefly." Benjamin was a healthy and exclusively breastfeeding baby, only a few months old. He was a happy baby and rarely wept, and when he did it he was treated quickly. Its airway closes and opens involuntarily for some reason. But with levels of oxygen so high and without breathing difficulty, Our doctor did not see any reason to prescribe drugs, and there was no need for respiratory therapy. They gave us advice to look and wait. We went home and the spasms continued all night. Benjamin slept. Dad slept. I didn't. I was near my sleeping baby like a sentinel in the dark, holding every spasm. You can bet that the terrifying spectrum of SIDS definitely crossed my mind as I saw its strange breathing patterns. There is nothing more miserable than an unknown danger lurking around a small, helpless child. Although a still small voice told me I wasn't going to die, my mind could still conjure a million other terrible possibilities. What did the specialists say? We consult several other specialists in the search for a diagnosis. A very well-known ENT told me that I had never had patients present with this kind of problem. He put a range through Benjamin's throat and found no physical abnormalities or obstruction in the vocal chords, esophagus or trachea. Everything was fine. He said the throat sometimes spasms or closes in reaction to an irritant or allergen. That could explain why Ben had episodes in some days and not in others. We didn't have a definitive answer, but we had a little clue. I've consulted a speech pathologist friend so I could get a sense of it. For her, the attacks sounded very similar to a Laryngospasm, which is a spasm of vocal cords that makes it temporarily difficult to cry or breathe. It is an involuntary thing, and acid reflux and anxiety are the two common triggers. For the first time, we feel that the answer could be closer as the reflux is something many other healthy babies treat. And with reflux, you can have good days and bad days. It also affects many people even while they sleep. Were the spasms gone? Respiratory spasms continued throughout their childhood. Many episodes were caused by crying, but not by anything. As time passed, they began to shorten in duration and gravity. By the time Benjamin was 2, they had gone forever (HALLELUJAH) and we have not seen any repetition since (it was six years this March). And then Samuel was born and began to have the same episodes! Like Ben, they often happened without apparent reason during sleep. They were not as bad as Ben's, and he discovered them more quickly – by age one. What caused spasms? As time passed, we noticed a connection between both boys. Benjamin and Samuel both showed signs of (not the same as lactose intolerance). If I ate dairy and then I used to breast-feed them, they'd be very irritable and they spit a lot. In retrospect we realized that respiratory spasms had disappeared while their sensitivity of milk protein had gone. My theory is that this food sensibility was causing reflux. The reflux has been medically documented to cause problems such as stridor (high pressure noisy breath), chronic cough, and even involuntary spasms (i.e., like laryngospasm) in babies. Perhaps the acid reflux was irritating its airway and causing its vocal chords for spasm and closure. Or maybe one of the answers of his bodies to the irritant was throat spasms. This would explain why days or even weeks passed between episodes. I was good to avoid dairy, but I had some "slips" from time to time; either knowingly or accidentally. Did dietary changes help? It looks like that! We've changed to rice milk for Ben and Sam successfully. However, in retrospective I wish to have sought an alternative formula, since they are more nutritious than rice milk. Ben and Sam are still at the low end of the growth lists. If you suspect that an allergy or intolerance are feeding formulas, look for alternatives like or . There is also a formula of soft and natural goat milk that you can try (free) called . Correlation does not amount to cause. Remember, that's just my theory about what was going on. Only because these spasms occurred in tandem with a food allergy does not necessarily mean that the food allergy was the cause. In the medical world, correlation does not automatically amount to causality. But it is still my best guess, given all the information, and the timetable. Are spasms dangerous? In retrospect, I realize now that the conditions of our children were not life-threatening, however we would not change anything we did at that time because we really were scared! My opinion is that if a child is suffering and/or experiencing these types of spasms frequently, it should be examined by a doctor. Almost all parents who have contacted me about my job did the same things (at the ER, visited several doctors, investigated every book and website they could find, etc.). Many of them continue to seek a cause. From what I've learned over the years, most cases don't seem to be life-threatening. But, like any doctor will tell you, many elephants enter the exam room, but it's the zebra you're looking for. Don't feel bad about being worried or scared. Don't stress the doctors and specialists who are pestering. Your job is to help and cure. Is there anything I can do for my son? Apart from avoiding long episodes of crying, which can be a trigger, anything you can do to calm or relax a baby can help. Young children and older children can be taught to breathe deeply and calmly. Following the "7-11" model you can also stop hyperventilation feelings; inhale for seven seconds, and exhale for 11 seconds until symptoms dissolve. The old technique of breathing in a paper bag can also help because it catches carbon dioxide, recycling the gas back to the lungs. To summarize, this is what I advise parents who are going through this:Filed Under: Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , , I am the creator of Zephyr Hill's blog, where families can find help with cloth diapers, home education and hobby farming. Be sure to check my huge database of . There is also a shopping guide to help you find the best offers! Comments Janis Rowland says Anne, I forwarded her blog to Sarah, Thehealthyhomeeconomist.com, as a blog suggestion for her. I hope you find the subject intriguing enough to want to investigate for yourself because you think there may be a correlation with allergies to milk. Says: Thank you for sharing the post! I hope it's helpful for someone. Allergies may have some very strange effects... ~ Anne John says if I show you a video you can tell me if it's the same. He says I'll look at him and send you an e-mail, John. ~ Anne John says thank you for answering please The name says mine was similar to that. Btw didn't put my real information because I don't want the person that means a lot of knowing Lizzie says Hi John, and thank you Anne for this blog. John just watched your video, this morning I woke up to my 4-month-old son doing exactly the same as your son on the video. This scared my life. I appreciate that your comments were published almost year ago, however, have you been given any answers, or a diagnosis? Is that something your son has grown up? I would really appreciate some help and send the best wishes to you and your child. Thank you. Lizzie says Lizzie, who received a silent reflux diagnosis, but I haven't had any John update since. ~ Anne says Update: I've heard of John today. They never found a definitive answer. At two, your son seems to be overcoming. Thank God! A very similar experience to ours. Laura says thank you so much for publishing this. I came across this when I was trying to find answers about why my son was sucking air.. Yasmin says Hi, my 7-month-old started doing this tonight. They have been sent home from the hospital without answers - he said it's okay and to see it. We are also allergic to dairy, soy and eggs and he is breastfeeding. I'm not currently removing these from my diet. He had a crying jet in which he was crispy after a while yesterday, and today he seemed pain when he cried. Fstone says This sounds like the spasms of my great baby "like crying" but along with it seems to have lost its appetite and is not sleeping at night without waking up twice or three times and not napping it. He fell two days ago (on his one-year birthday) and had a "smash" cake that was too sugar for my thinking. So these symptoms are only two days old. Says interesting and terrifying! Let's hope your mail can help another parent who is looking for answers to a sometimes frightening problem. He says, "It's my hope, too, Heather! ~ Anne Ashley Barrett says My first child did this and finally diagnosed the reflux he had been telling and bothering the doctor for months. His first episode was at 5 months and that and his terrible asthma attack were the most terrifying moments of my life. I felt beyond helpless :(. His was only because of the reflux and in the back view I know it's because his tongue tie reacted and his lipstick was never taken care of because no one diagnosed them at the time. Now he's 6 years old and I'll take him soon to take care of them. Neither my second son or (until now) my daughter has had those problems. My daughter has had her tongue tie twice, although she also had a tie, but that was only done once and became tall and normal. He says: I can simply imagine how worried he must have been and how stressful he was trying to get a diagnosis! I'm glad you finally got to the bottom, and I hope everything goes well with their treatments! Thanks for sharing your experience, and also for mentioning that in your situation the reflux caused the same problem we saw. ~ Anne Kim says I'm so glad I found your job. My daughter has had three of these episodes now, and we have also been told that it is acid reflux after two ER trips and a long hospital stay!! I think I believe it, but it's still hard to see your little one go through it. We had our most recent spasm fight last night. Alternative Says, "Hey, Kim." I'm glad you found what's causing spasms, but I agree it's hard to see. He's looking for everyone as a breathing problem, and that's pretty scary. Hang in there and I'll say a prayer for your family. ~ Anne Eyong says My son also had the same and the doctors haven't given me a reason so far all they told me is that they didn't see anything wrong with him and a pediatrician asked me to give him depakine even though he said it was the first time he saw such but I refused to give him because the result of the EEG was negative. Thank you so much. Julia says it's like you write this about my son! We took it for an EEG because we thought it had seizures. A lungologist diagnosed Sandifers syndrome but never convinced me because it didn't seem to me. My son also has milk intolerance and reflux. It must be related. I wish the professionals knew more about it. It's so terrifying. I just passed again tonight at 10 months. I can't wait until this happens... thanks for sharing, now I don't feel like I'm crazy! Julia says, so I felt for a while too. Nobody seemed to know what was going on, including most of the doctors and specialists we saw. I'm glad the post was helpful and I will pray to your child grows the spasms and sensitivities of the meal soon! ~ Anne Ashley says thank you so much for this blog. My son has been fussable for 2 days and tonight he started doing this. I'm still gonna be up all night watching him and taking him to our pediatrician first thing in the morning. However, reading this has taken some panic. Says, please keep me informed! And you could try to get a video of him to share with your doctor. ~ Anne Thank you for sharing this! My older daughter was diagnosed with Pyloric stenosis at 6 weeks. She quickly had surgery and within the days of her surgery began to have similar episodes of these "spasms". We thought it was related pain (of surgery) at first, but spasms continued until it was about 2, too. Also triggered by crying, so it seemed, though looking back at spasms could have triggered their crying? It was definitely alarming for us. She was tested for allergies at 3 years and also told us she had a slight allergy to the dairy protein. Now our youngest, who is 6 weeks old has just begun to experience the same spasms. Since reading your article I am anxious to cut dairy completely and see how and if it makes a difference to it. (she is fed exclusively by the chest, as was my elder). Thanks again for sharing, as you said, there's not much information on this subject! It's good to know that others have gone through similar things. Lauren, let me know how to eliminate dairy products works for you and your baby. I know how stressful this is to happen, especially when everyone is short of answers. Has your elder been okay for a while? Have you overcome allergy to dairy protein? ~ Anne She says, Anne, we went through the same thing when my daughter was 2 months old. Your post was precise for us to the least detail. It was absolutely terrifying. We felt that we clung to the straws when it was about determining what was causing their "spasms". We submit it to so many intrusive tests, poor thing, only to receive negative results in all of them (thank you goodness!) Of course, we never discovered it and she overwhelmed them about 18 months. Now I'm noticeing a strange gasping-like breathing in my current 12-week daughter when she sleeps and I wonder if I should be pulling her to the same mysterious condition. Thanks for this post. If it had existed in 2012 when we were in the bulk of our panic... I would have made myself feel much better! Says: Hi Laura, your answer makes me very happy that my experience, as well as yours and other people who have commented, is here to help families. I wish there was a way to put this information into the hands of medical professionals, though. Obviously, it is real and can be very worrying! I'm praying that your 12-week-old will not have the episodes for as long as your older daughter. All the best, Anne. Leah D says thank you for writing your story! We are also struggling with what to do about these unknown spasms that our second child is experiencing. We have been praying over him and praying for wisdom. We told her pediatrician and she thought it was just a blockage in her nose that was causing some anguish, as it is still a "nose-breather". But it doesn't seem right. It's like his diaphragm is having spasms and he can't breathe. It also gets a little nervous when it's happening. Did you find that cutting ALL the dairy helped? I was thinking of cutting milk because it seems like it makes him a little fuse after he's had a lot of drink. But I was wondering if it was necessary to cut cheese, yogurt, sour cream, etc... (And I know every baby is different) Just curious what seemed to make the biggest difference to you. Thank you again! Says Hi Leah! That definitely sounds similar. If dairy were really the problem, it would depend on how sensitive your child was. Unfortunately, I had to cut everything and it was hard. No butter in my toast, no sour cream in my tacos, etc. With dairy, be aware that whatever you decide to remove, you will have to give it at least one week or more to be totally out of your system. Thank you for taking time to write! ~Anne Sarah says I can't even start telling you RELIEF's sigh (yes, relief!) I had when I read this. Our daughter has had these "spasms/ episodes" since she was about 2 months. With her too, 9 out of 10 times happened after a good cry. So far now we're trying not to let her work like that. (If she even silences that we came running) after taking video evidence and showing our pediatrician we had an EEG. When I first got hooked, "we're stepping" my heart fell. I knew deep down that this could not be what I had, but terrifying yet to read it. Your EEG turned perfectly normal and our pediatrician didn't have a diagnosis either. Just to watch, keep notes. He's been hammering with them tremendously at 5 months. The last time he had one was 2 months ago. All you said is our daughter. I just wanted to thank you for your blog! Really. I've been more calm with this problem without diagnosing. Says, Sarah, I'm glad I help you give you some peace! I know exactly how you feel because for so long there was nothing but fear and anxiety in our house. Hopefully, they'll one day put a name on this. ~ Anne Shannon says I'm so glad I found this place. My son does this after intense crying spells. He just had one last night and he's been doing this since 10 pm and now it's 8am! I feel like they're never gonna stop! It is in a hypoallergenic formula for the sensitivity of milk protein and medications for reflux and Just Just to double check, is this the same as what you're talking about? I have a video at 3:00 in the morning. Shannon says, it's a little hard to say about the video since I can't see his face, but if he's still having the episodes, I wonder if getting his adjusted dose or changing medications would help? Besides, in what position is he at night when he's having the spells? ~ Anne Kierra graham says My daughter started this at 3 months that her father was at work that night I got scared and I rushed her to go to the emergency room. By the time I got here, I was fine and I slept all right. Quickly at the age of 7 months he rose again from his nap screaming and spasms arrived. My husband and I rushed her to the ER again, her breathing was fine with oxygen levels being hooded, but they found that she was very congested and diagnosed bronchitis that she took antibiotics for 5 days. Now he's 13 months old and today was his first day of nursery. He was very fussy and cried all day. When I picked her up, I noticed that she had a spasm, so I took her to her doctor who checked her and was fine apart from a little sinus infection... I noticed all of hers where they are linked to some type of respiratory infection/alergia. Kierra says, thank you for sharing your experiences, as I know that all collective information will be useful to other parents. I hope your sweet girl will spread them soon! God bless, Anne. Beth says hi, Anne. My name is Beth and I just found your website while I look for strange breathing problems on my daughters during the night. My daughter has had a milk protein allergy since birth and diagnosed at 3 months. He was also diagnosed with epilepsy at 8 months. Now he's about to turn 2. The breathing episodes described by you and everyone else seem to fit into what you do. He's been having these episodes for over a year. They told us it was sleep apnea. We thought it was a kind of seizure. Since she's been out of milk since she was 3 months old, I wonder why she still has these episodes if there's a link. I saw a video that 'john' put here for you to look like. And that's exactly what my daughter does. I've never seen a video of another child doing it before. As it is older now, it is very distressing for us to see. It seems he almost always does it in the early hours of the morning. We tried to wake her up this morning and we couldn't. He's been carrying these episodes for a few hours. I was just wondering if anyone could give me information about whether I need to go on to the bottom of it. We brought him with his paed on all his checks and discussed it with his neurologist. No one seems fusible, but it is very worrying to see her almost struggling with breathing. Her seizures have made her stop breathing before which is why we find him very terrifying. Your sincerely Beth Says, "Hey, Beth. I'm so sorry that your little girl is still fighting with breathing spasms! I'm glad you've been able to diagnose allergy to the milk protein and remove dairy from your diet. If that hasn't completely relieved the problem, I wonder if there's another allergy or sensitivity in the game here? It's not weird that there's more than one. Maybe a follow-up with your allergist is in order? Or you could get a reference for an ENT as they deal with the structures of the mouth and throat. If you could take a video with the doctor that would also help. Let me know what you found! I would also be concerned, especially because she has the underlying condition (epilepsy). My prayers are with you. ~ Anne chelsea says so grateful for this blog! I went to a Bible study tonight and left my daughter (a mom's girl, 13 months) with my husband. When I got home, he said he was crying for a long time, but he fell asleep before he came home. When I saw her, she sounded like she was sleeping and sleeping... her last two hours now! her last 10pm and finally stopped. I have been out of dairy for more than 5 months because 5 months ago I had her proven allergy in a local homeopathic doctor through muscle tests (I was so sick with coughs that I would leave her blue and not breathe, constant congestion, etc., bright red eyes, strange coloring – we were not sure that I would survive) and found out through muscle tests that she was highly allergic to dogs and highly sensitive to corn After no dairy for 5 months, I had ice cream one night and she had one of these breathing/spasm episodes. (I didn't know how to relate it at that time) and now a few weeks later I had pizza and ice cream last night and she had this 2-hour episode + breathing / spasm! Now I know that your dairy and their discomfort are gone! Poor baby! its madness how different allergies can come out in each person and how the health of the intestine is related to each body disease! Says Chelsea, that's an amazing story and her dedication in trying to find answers and sacrifice things on her diet are so admirable! I'll pray your little girl out of this! Kelli says hello Anne! I'm so glad I found your blog. My 14-month-old daughter has been having this and at night since she was a month or two. The first time I was awake and was literally gassing for the air. He yelled at the exhalation and then gassed in the inhalation as if his throat was closed. I couldn't calm her down for more than an hour because I couldn't breathe. I realized that he had spams on his diaphragm for quite some time and after the episode. The other episodes usually happen in the night out of blue. (I just had one last night) She still sleeps in our room and starts with quick short inhalations through her nose. I thought he was dreaming, but then he'll scream uncontrollably and have instant spasms. It takes so long to calm her down at last. When I try to take care of her to calm her down, she drowns because she sucks the air so fast from spasms. She has been diagnosed with Fpies after some episodes of severe vomiting after having oats as a baby. I don't think spasms are related. I'm going with a dairy outside because I have an allergy myself. But I think what you mentioned is what's happening to my daughter. I noticed when I have more dairy spasms start more often. It should start as a flu that activates spasms. However, she seems to go to spasms right away when she cries too. If it falls or gets a boo We try to calm it fast because it enters a setting so difficult to calm it and it doubles breathing and spasms instantly. latitude is horrible to see. I've mentioned it several times to your pediatrician and he says it's normal... I'm going to cut the dairy completely for the good and hope that stops the spasms completely. Thank you so much for your page, I couldn't find anything online to explain what's happening. God bless! Honestly, Kelli Kelli says, thank you for sharing your daughter's story. I hope you help other families, too! ~ Anne Laurie says Hi Anne, thank you for starting this post and the others you have commented on. My daughter has had 4 of these episodes at 3 months, all after being very upset. We're trying to keep him from getting too angry too. The only time she was in her car seat and got angry but she didn't want to take our eye from her seat to comfort her because of security reasons. After she calms down she has these spasms that decrease in frequency but can continue for hours. I saw it the first two times on my own and told my husband that she makes this "happy face." He saw it the last two times, the last one tonight. When he first saw him, he started looking and you know what he can do. Googled infantile spasms and we were so disturbance. I continued to google for days, and it didn't seem like what I had even though there were some similarities. When I read your message I felt a little relieved and let it go knowing that we have a Drs app on October 4. Tonight he had his fourth episode. I am comforted to read this thread, but my husband and I are still very worried. I'm going to do a Drs app on Monday, I hope and practice everything is fine with our little girl. He says I was so scared of what I found on Google, Laurie! So I know how you feel. I was afraid Ben would have seizures or die in the middle of the night. It was a very difficult time for all of us. You should definitely be worried until you have received some medical guidance, so you're doing the right thing! My prayers are with you. ~ Anne Sarah says, and you stopped feeding them cow's milk? He says, "Yes, and also cut it off from my diet because of the infirmary. Adrienne says Omg... I'm not alone. Mines do exactly the same. It only happens when you cry long and hard. Everyone was telling me their hips or they just got upset, but they scared the shit out of me and I spent the night waking up making sure it would be okay. It happened for the first time to 1 month, once again to 2 months. I'm trying not to let him get angry. He did it three months, but not every time he has a good scream. The doctor said before they started to have acid reflux. Trying to get it on video so I can show you what I'm seeing because this isn't just hiccup for me. Googled and I found something similar to him and said the baby was hyperventilating. But I'll see what the doctor says once I have a good video. Thank you so much for your position. He says: You're welcome, Adrienne! Getting it on video is so crucial, so you can have something to show any doctor or specialist you can see on the road. It's definitely NOT just hypo! ~ Anne Brittney says he really needed this in 2013 when my daughter started this just two months ago. There was nothing out there! Thank you for publishing this for others who will go through this. My daughter did this two months to a year. She never slept well and was always restless even at night when she didn't spend. During that time, I made a video to your doctor and two specialists. We had a sleep study done that turned normal and undiagnosed. I was told that it was not reflux because it never spit and had no problems during the day, but I felt I needed to try something so I read about raising the mattress in the crib. We did it and we had a new son! Gasping stopped completely and started sleeping with sound!! The doctor said it should have been quietly reflux. Fast forward 18 months – she is 2 1/2 now and just started gasing again! I've also recently noticed that she has hypo every time she laughs a lot then it will be a cough like something comes up in her throat. He had a normal superior IG, but the doctor put it in Nexium. Wait and look. I want to tell parents to listen to your instinct. You know your child better than anyone else, including a doctor. In his video, like John's, he appeared peaceful, but he didn't know if he was hurting his lungs/heart. No one else seemed very concerned. A specialist called us overprotective parents and said it seemed to me to be bothering more than her, but he wasn't listening to his baby do this for more than two hours at night without knowing why! I knew something was happening. Don't give up or doubt yourself just so someone else says. He says: Hi Brittney, I always thought the reflux caused spitting, but finally learned about the silent reflux, too. I'm pretty sure that's what our guys had. Unbelievable how to let your daughter sleep propose wonders! Let me know how things go now that episodes have started again. And thank you so much for your words of encouragement to other parents. ~ Anne Eva says My 13 months of age have been doing this for the past month or so, maybe twice a week, He is in a very deep sleep and then his breathing changes almost as he is having a hard time (without discoloration) and then he whirls that I normally move him a little but most of the time he wakes up screaming and there is nothing he can do to calm him down. Eventually it settles and falls into a deep sleep, never opens eyes during these episodes.. I've explained this to the doctors and no one seems to be what's going on. This is stressing me, I'm pregnant, and lack of sleep is not helping. He says: Could it be reflux and pain for that? Eva says Possibly. I'll talk to the doctor about your next application. I used to have a very bad flu like a baby, this is a little different but maybe... it made me a better night than last night. I'm going to give an update once I get some answers. says: Eva, I'm going to be saying a prayer for you and your son! And I appreciate the updates, as they can help other families get through this. ~ Anne Eva says it's good that I take my baby to the emergency room last night because it seemed tense, as her arms seemed stiff, along with breathing and crying. They want me to record it and see a neurologist as soon as possible to rule out seizures. God, I hope it's not that, but it definitely looks like that. There's one thing like night seizures only happens when they sleep. I've been investigating a lot about them. I'll let you know what the neurologist says. Thank you. Being able to let him out on this blog helps tremendously. Says, let me know if you have an update, Eva! Jessica says thank you for this article! My 4 months of age had an episode like this yesterday for 15 consecutive minutes! I felt like a life for me. I got scared and threw a policeman at the side (who wasn't helpful) and then I called the pediatric emergency line that was stunned when I told him about it!! I pray you don't have another episode like that. He scared me more than anything in the world! He has been diagnosed with silent reflux so he cannot help. Thank you again! And it gives me hope that it's okay and it comforts me that it's not the only one! Jessica says, you described exactly what we spent in terms of seeing our children go through the episodes and feel that every minute was an eternity. Could you get this on video if it happened again to share with your pediatrician? ~ Anne Lahri says Looking through the comments, I notice that all people who pass through this are babies and usually grow out of it. Which is confusing to me because I did it like a child when I cried. Except I never grew up. It still happens when I start to cry very hard. I'm almost 19 years old. You can scare me sometimes because I felt like I was dying. Usually, every time it would happen it would start as hypo-type things, but after a couple of minutes it would become more aggressive, to the point where it would take about ten, fast, sharp, involuntary breath gases and then at the top of a breath, it would not be able to breathe for a couple of seconds. Like I had the wind gone from me and I couldn't breathe. (would sound something like... "huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" with every "hu" equal to a fast, acute and involuntary gasosa) After a couple of seconds of that, my body would relax and let me free my breath. Then it would happen again. It would happen like that for hours sometimes. It's terrifying when it gets bad like that, but I've been doing it all my life so I'm a little used to it now. Still, it feels terrible. I have always thought of it as hyperventilating/anxiety attack/adrenaline action or something, but I have done research and none of the symptoms for those things describe what happened so now I wonder if it is an airway or something lung. I don't really know. I've never been to the doctor for it, probably because it's so hard to explain without a demonstration. And honestly, I didn't know it was weird. I thought it was something people were doing when they were crying, until I looked into it and found nothing on it. I started to feel like I was the only person in the world who experiences this. Until I found this post. However, I find it odd that I've only been in babies and babies grow up from her. There may be a chance that some adults will, but if there is, it's not much. But I thought I'd share. Babies can't tell their parents what they feel, so maybe this gives you an idea. As I said, however, it may feel terrible if it becomes too severe, but I have never been afraid of my safety or life. I'm never so scared that I wanted to go to the hospital or something. If anything, it's exhausting and it makes me want to sleep. Says: Hi, Lahri, yours is not the first account I've ever read of teenagers and adults experiencing this strange gaseous and stopped breathing. Years ago, when I was trying to find answers, I read messages from adults who were still dealing with him. But you're right, most seem to be children, and many seem to overcome it, which is a mercy. The way you describe it is very scary, so it is not surprising that these babies and children feel scared and upset (and their parents too!). ~ Anne Mathew says thank you for sharing this story, my 8-month-old started doing this tonight and even being an EMT that was still baffled. Reading your story led me to try some things for reflux and it seems to be working. spasms are only happening every few minutes now instead of every few seconds. It will be a night without sleep for me tonight but it would have been much worse without your help! Thank you! says: Mathew, I'm glad the post helped and you were able to bring your skills as an EMT to the situation. I hope your baby's better. ~ Anne Samantha says this gave me chills to the bone! I'm googling hypo sleep and tripped with this post. My son will be 4 in February, however his sleep hypothesis is now not why we are related here. When I was newborn, my child had GERD, severe reflux. He began to have laryngospasms, fainted in the arms of my mothers at 4 weeks of age, had these episodes of weeping, he would go in a severe fit that, at that time, we were worried about seizures. He was breastfeeding briefly, the problem started when I was admitted to the hospital for staph infection and couldn't breastfeed him and my sister was feeding formulas. I put it in Nutramigen AA and that helped enormously, but it was still very sensitive. It was heartbreaking to see her go through and all these doctors, specialists, etc. called him behavioral! It still suffers from long-term effects, it seems as if your boys are doing well, thank God, but it's nice to be able to relate to someone and validate that we were not crazy! Thank you for sharing this! Samantha, thanks for taking time to buy and publish your experiences here. It's definitely NOT just behavioral! These children are really suffering from real symptoms caused by a trigger of some kind. I'm happy that the Nutramigen helped and I hope your child will overcome spasms. ~ Anne Jessica says hi! I stumbled into this post because my daughter (15 months) has had two of these episodes. I think it's very interesting what you said, because she was both reflux and an allergy to milk protein as a young baby! He spit constantly. We put it in the formula pre-digested (she's a twin and I didn't have enough milk for both of them, so they made half of formula breast milk). In that formula he spit half of what he ate, and even had a terrifying fall in weight. Turns out he could not tolerate "sensitive" formulas – we gave him the regular type and his spitting all but stopped. So we had a baby with a milk allergy that couldn't drink special formulas. Fortunately it grew from the allergy a long time ago (about 8, 9 months), but probably never grew from the reflux. He used to wake up with a cough that would disappear in the middle of the morning, and our doctor said it was related to reflux. Our son had severe reflux as a baby, and our eldest daughter takes reflux medication at age 13, so I suspect it's an inherited problem. So maybe I something related to reflux, and maybe just so happens that allergies of reflux protein and milk go hand in hand? I'm so glad your children have overtaken it, I hope she too! He says, "This only proves that you can learn something every day. Pretty clean that changing to the regular formula about sensitive really helped! And I'm glad you raised genetics because that could certainly play a role, too. Thank you for taking time to share your story, Jessica! ~Anne Gina says hello Anne. I ran into your place trying to figure out what's been going on with my son. John's video a year ago, I felt like I was seeing my son. My son started doing this when I was 2 months old. I called 911, I thought I wasn't breathing. Everything was fine. Our pediatrician told me he was dreaming. Every time I mentioned it, it was the same answer. Don't worry. My son just turned 3 and he's still doing this. We've had a dream study done with good results. They questioned laryngomalacia so we went to an ENT who told me that he was not worried and that his just something he does and may or may not grow. That's not a good answer. I want to know why this happens a week and then he'll have five good nights. It's so strange. I was told that I couldn't be refluous because my son only does this when he's in a deep sleep, especially in the morning around 5. Looks like a lot of kids grow up from this by 2, so I'm worried he's still doing this at 3. I will contact national Jews as you suggested earlier. Thank you for publishing about this! Doctors make me feel like I'm crazy and I'm a worried parent. They act like their nothing, and it's terrifying every time it happens, no matter how many times you see it. He says: Gina, I felt exactly as you did – that the answers I was getting weren't good enough. I was so worried at the time, and it was hard to see our boys passing! You're not crazy and being a concerned father is how we love our children. I will keep this in my prayers, and please let me know if you learn anything from a national Jew. ~ Anne Norma says I just had a similar experience with my 3 weeks. I literally went to the kitchen and heard a loud scream and when I came back to the room, my baby was gassing for the air and screaming. It was the 20 longest seconds of my life just looking at it. It got very red. I called the pediatrician and they thought it might be acid reflux. I'm scheduled tomorrow. I hope you have an answer. Says, let us know if you have an update, Norma! Alyson Bowin says thank you for your job! We had an episode like this last night, and there was no other information on the web. This makes sense in our case that never as dairy, but yesterday I had cheese and cookies and a cookie with a glass of milk. My son is 5 months old, and I probably have never eaten those food in a day and definitely not consecutively - we were under the groceries at home 🙂 He's exclusively breastfeeding. At night he got angry after being put on his swing. He's not a fuse baby, so when he cries we usually pick him up, and he calms pretty fast. Last night he snowed in hysteria, and his breathing became warm, gaseous, as hypo, but not really. He indicated that everything that bothered him was in his mouth / throat, but there were no signs of a tooth or another irritant. He was ready to take him to the emergency room when he finally started to calm down. As he calmed down (after at least 45 minutes of hysterical shrieking), breathing sounded more and more like hypo. I was measured, but then I found your post very insightful. And, no more milk for me for a long time! He says, "Alyson, I'm relieved to hear that he went through that episode well and you didn't have to go through the whole ER experience. Hopefully, if it is a dairy allergy in your case, it should be quite easy to stay away from future incidents! ~ Anne Hayley says, "Hello, my 2-week-old is making sobbing! We think it may have an allergy because all the fomular milk we've given you doesn't agree with it. How can doctors tell you if your baby has intolerance/alergia? I can't sleep in one night for worrying about these noises. He says: Hayley, we've never officially tested our kids for allergies, but I think you'd go to a specialist for that. Maybe ask your doctor to send you? I feel like your little girl is going through this and I'll say a prayer that you find peace and some answers. ~ Anne Alex J says Hi Anne, my son does exactly what you described. His first episode was at 9 weeks and it didn't seem to be triggered by anything. I was sitting quietly in his bounce. The look on her face while she was holding her breath was terrifying. But then it would be completely normal again. And he didn't bother him. We took him to the emergency department, but they sent us unanswered. He did it all night and he left, but he slept normally. ridiculous Googled sound like 'truly big hip' and 'baby holding breath with a frightening face'. I took him the next day to the grandfather who saw him do it. She sounded like a pediatrician and described it and said it sounded like an active start reflection. It should grow from it, they said, like the reflex waves of the startle. He didn't. But it happened less and less frequently. And he was a very healthy baby. No apparent reflux or allergies. And it just seemed to happen during big episodes of crying. Eventually we went to our pediatrician who thought it might be mild seizures or holding breath, but he was not worried about it and said that it is so mild that he wouldn't even treat it if it were such things as he would grow up from it. Now he's 2 years old and he does it occasionally. It's just when he's got a hard episode of crying or he's suddenly scared. If he falls asleep then he will continue to do it while he sleeps. But it looks like he's upset now. It cries more after I can breathe again, if you know what I mean. Recently my 4-month twins began to do it. They are breastfeeding, very happy babies who sleep well and are gaining weight, etc. I can't see any reason they do it, other than being activated by crying. I'd love to know why it happens and what it's called! It's really a phenomenon. He says: Alex, it does sound exactly the same! Ben's first episode was just like his son's. He was resting quietly on his swing when he started out of nowhere. None of the answers given makes sense (drawing, seizure, retained breathing), so my only suggestion would be reflux or allergy. And I say that because both can be "silenced" or hidden without causing any notable symptoms. Ben (who had these episodes until it was 2) is now almost 8 years old. For years, I've assumed it's whatever this is, he's completely overtaken it. But every time on a blue moon (perhaps twice a year) it will wake up from a dead dream gasping and swallowing over and over again, looking at terrorized. After 5 or 10 minutes he will fall asleep again. Once again, I find a silent reflux – stomach acid dragging back the esophagus and causing the throat to spasm. Please let me know how it goes with your twins, and do not discount allergies or reflux just because you are not seeing "typical" symptoms. ~ Anne Laura says Thank you so much for this post I've been looking for answers to my daughter was diagnosed with reflux Started having strange respiratory episodes two months now she's taking care of/after several trips to the ER without definitive diagnosis How often did your child have these episodes? Says: Laura, thank you for coming to comment. Our son, Ben, who had it worse, would have episodes every time he got angry and cried a lot, so it could be a few times a month. ~ Anne Nicola says thank you. Anne, our seven-month-old son did it tonight for the first time when he was super tired and after crying more than usual before bedtime. He has a milk allergy and today I licked my finger (visibly clean) after picking up a piece of chocolate from my older son (I have cut all dairy) – it can't be a coincidence since it never happened before! It was very helpful to read this post, thank you! He says, "I'm glad it was useful, Nicola. Kara says I read it about 2 years ago when my older son started doing this as a very young baby. I return periodically waiting for a commentator to have answered all our questions. My son's spells always come after an intense weeping. It also has a milk protein allergy. I returned today to leave a comment because his situation has developed. He was recently diagnosed with asthma after a fairly serious attack. A few nights later, it was not close to returning to normal, and after a crying spell (more intense crying than normal, but nowhere near as intense as it usually causes the gaseous episodes) started doing this again. I'm not sure how exactly asthma and these gaseous episodes are connected, but your most recent episode drew my attention to the fact that it seems to have these episodes after the same events/expositions that trigger your asthma. To be more specific, this attack was triggered after a disease. This may be true of my little one, and I guess it might be a coincidence (but no) so I'm not trying to diagnose anyone else's son. This is just another piece of the puzzle. I hope someone can get them all together. He says: This isn't the first time someone has mentioned asthma, so maybe there's really a connection? How are you today? Kara says praise God, his asthma is very well managed. Now he's 5 years old and he's been fine more than a year without any serious symptoms (although he's got a cough right now. Its soft but with a certain hollow sound that has my breast asthma sensors on high alert. We've been treating him with homeopathy during that period of time and his work spectacularly. It's been so long since he had an episode of gas/lloration that I can't remember when he was the last one. I'm not sure those episodes disappeared were related to age, as it seems that most of the gas episodesing episodes here to infants and young children or if their similar to food allergies and asthma in that 1 disappears for a while and the other becomes more problematic. He was dairy free for a period of time and had these symptoms during that time, so his value. In addition, my second child had similar but much milder and weirder episodes like baby and small child. It has a much smoother version of asthma. My older son has unbalanced and unstable muscles and has since birth. I have theorized that the gas episodes were related to the dysfunction of the diaphragm of this as well. I don't know. The only thing I can say for sure is to consult a specialist, not a regular ped or a family doctor. We have learned that any strange breathing in a small child, even a child with asthma diagnosis, results in medications or a nervous pneumonia hypothesis (well, yes, sibilance would indicate pneumonia if the IDN has no asthma) to a medical professional who is not a respiratory specialist. I take my third baby to a new respiratory specialist in a few weeks to review your milder respiratory symptoms (he has never had a gas episode) due to family history. If there's time, I'll bring this, and report back on what it says. He says: Kara, I really appreciate you taking a while to publish this detailed update, and I'm sure many other families will, too. I agree that it is really worth consulting with a specialist at some point, because most family doctors will not be familiar with these episodes and simply attribute them to something benign. - Anne Marie Shyanne says that I saw the video some published in the previous comments and have done this as I can remember when I cry very hard during the day (I am 21). When I go to sleep, even if it's hours after I cry hard, I'll always do the gaseous thing. I have a daughter who has 1 now and she does it too. I don't think it's any milk allergies or anything. I don't have milk allergies or asthma either. I still don't know why it's happening, but when I heard my baby do it, I have to say I wasn't surprised because I've done it for years too. I don't know if he'll ever grow up. But I'm pretty sure it happens to babies when they cry. says: Hi Shyanne, thanks for sharing your experience, especially as an adult who still experiences it. As with most of the things that happen to the body, there could be many causes. Allergies and asthma could be very good some of them. In your case, I can't guess, beyond saying it's just part of your unique physiology. I know it's not common and it definitely doesn't happen to all babies. In my family, we have 7 children and we only saw the phenomemon twice – and they grew from it almost exactly at the same time that their allergy to the milk protein disappeared. ~ Anne Emily says Thanks for the article, my daughter has done this since birth, sometimes every ten seconds when she sleeps after she feels upset and being comforted several hours before. I can't comment on any other case, but I was reassured by a specialist at the great Ormond Street Hospital (the leading uk children's hospital) that their many babies do and are not related to any tension in the heart, etc. Says, Emily, I think what's seen in those babies is a little different and completely normal. Newborns often take what is called a double breath, and it seems and sounds like their air consumption is briefly interrupted. They also breathe faster than older babies and sometimes even stop breathing completely for long breaks. And the soft "hypo" that a person of any age can get after crying is also normal. ~ Anne Carlyne says My newborn makes this double breath from birth. It's a formula fed. Will he be able to grow up? He does it more while he's asleep and not when he's upset. Sometimes every thirty seconds. Take him to the doctor this week Says, how old is your newborn, Carlyne? Double breathing (or experimental breathing) is normal, and it is also common to see unusual breathing patterns during your REM sleep. I should get over it in the first few months. ~ Anne Carlyne says thank you so much for your answer. My LO is 2 and a half weeks. It's not a quick breath or a pause. It's like a spasm sobbing or hypo breathing like after you cry (take the intake if a pair breathes) but it hasn't been crying and does it not only while he's asleep, but also awake. Is this the same as breathing in a newborn? And you'll figure it out? I have a video to show the doctor. Says, it could be a regular breathing. This Fairview Hospital explanation can help: "Your baby may have breathing that breaks up to 10 seconds at a time. This is called periodic breathing. There may be several nearby breaks, followed by a series of quick and shallow breaths. Then the breathing returns to normal. This is common in premature babies in the first weeks of life. Even healthy and long-term babies sometimes have regular breathing spells. These spells often occur when the baby is sleeping deeply. But they can also occur with light sleep or even when the baby is awake. A baby with regular breathing will always restart normal breathing itself. No stimulation is needed. Although this can be alarming for parents, it is a harmless condition and will disappear as your baby ages." That's good you have something to show the doctor. Let me know how it goes! – Anne Carlyne says it's not pause or breathe fast. His acute intake of breaths like a spasm sobbing. But he does it all the time. He showed the doctor the video and didn't know what it was. But he said that while his nostrils are not flaring or have a hard time breathing it seems to be okay. I feel like it's not normal, but I'm not sure what else to do? He says: That's a lot like our experience, so our babies weren't fighting to breathe or have retractions and yet they were doing something that's not really "normal" either. You could see some of the possible causes mentioned in the post, and then follow up accordingly with a specialist. I hope you get to the bottom and get over it like ours did! ~ Anne Andreya says thank you for this. This is a breath of fresh air for me. I've been looking for something to tell me what's going on with my daughter. Your descriptions are perfect for what you do. It's like you write about her. And I agree, it scares me to death. My doctor has confused us and everyone, literally ALL of us tell them or those who see it, have no idea what it is and they have "never seen it before." As you can imagine, that kind of response is even more frightening, especially because doctors have no idea. The closest thing they've decided is, like what you said, it has something to do with their reflux. This started with my girl when I was about six weeks old and also, exclusively breastfeeding. I appreciate that. I know you said you're not a doctor, but you gave me more information then they did. I've done everything you've suggested, except to see a specialist. That's definitely next on the list. Please send me an email of anything else you know about this. You are a true blessing! Andreya says, he's so discouraging when no one seems to have an answer, even the doctor himself. I would definitely look for a specialist, if your episodes are really worrying. We could have gone to see an allergist, but at that time we had noticed that the episodes were improving. God bless you and your family! Tracy says I'm so glad I found this blog! Same thing happened to my 5-year-old daughter. And it's the first one I've ever seen in it. He's never had this problem before so far. Most of you have seen this problem happening when your child was/is a few months old. But for a 5-year-old boy and having him for the first time, is that normal? Guy says Hi Tracy The same thing for my son who's almost 5 years old, never happened before, but last night it happened for the first time when he was asleep. Strong enough to wake me up, but I didn't bother him, as I was worried it was a dream and otherwise it turned out good. As you worried that I couldn't find any reference to the older children, however my child had reflux as a baby, but has been back in cow's milk for at least 2 years without problems ever since. Guy He says that if the theory is allergies, that could develop later. Kelly says hi! I'm reading this tonight because I'm seeing my two years in bed doing exactly what you describe. It started when he was three months old and always follows an episode of hard crying (we try to get rid of Paci today )) We had a lot of electrocardiograms made like they felt like they described childhood spasms but ruled out it was any kind of seizure. That was about five months. We're just trying not to let him get angry, but it's hard, especially now when we need to discipline sometimes. And I am 6 months old who does it too!!!! We're afraid to let him cry for this. It bothers me so much every day and I don't know what to do..., . will do it all night after we cry hard. Both have the same hysterical hyperventilating cry (as I call it). How do I discipline him and teach him when I don't want this to happen?... says Kelly, I know how frustrating it may be, and we also try to limit great crying spells when we could, but at the age of 5 months and 2 years that is not always possible, given their immaturity. Crying is a very natural response to many things. It would still give priority to discipline and don't worry about bothering it. Fortunately, you know that this condition is not harmful or life threatening, so try to keep a certain perspective. My prayers are with you! ~ Anne Brooc says My 11-month-old girl started making a sound like a hip but she doesn't have the hip. This started a couple of days ago. My husband and I are new parents and we wonder if it's normal for her to do this. He says, "Do you notice it much, or do you afflict it? Patricia angola says that I live in Venezuela, when my second baby was 12 months old, he scraped the pages of a magazine to use as skates, and after a time "skating" on the floor that he felt so badly that he came out of the air, that he threw all the joints and muscles, his arms opened and his legs crawled to the point of his fingers and... She fainted with both eyes open, as without life. It was terrifying, then he lived back like nothing happened. Our pediatrician was surprised that it is only described in books that he had never seen that, said it was called the soup Spam, and it happens to very bright children. Must be, my son is 27 years old, works artificial intelligence eith, he had built robots, computer programs and work with alternative energy in windmills! He says: That sounds a lot like a breathing spell – creepy and intense to see! Oge says I'm reading this and the first thought that came into my mind is: God bless you Anne! Really! You've described what my daughter has been through since I was about 6 weeks old. He's 6 months old. I talked to your pediatrician and said it was Breath Holding Spell. I knew it wasn't a breathing spell. I looked for answers and found none. It was so frustrating. Until today I tripped into your blog and I'm so relieved to know that we're not alone in this. I usually try not to let her cry so hard knowing that she would trigger this 'suspect of breathing'. But I'm trying to sleep training her now, since none of us sleep well. I started last night, and she cried so hard and started this respiratory thing, I had to give up and take care of her to sleep (which is exactly what I'm trying to stop). It's hard to see her do that. At this moment I am confused as to whether to go through sleep training (and of course wait for loads of this breathing episode) or continue to wait for her to learn to sleep better for herself while she ages, so she doesn't have to be really upset with sleep training... He says that I was in the same situation that you are – trying to improve sleep for everyone, but also hesitant to leave Ben or Sam "cry it out" for ANY long time because the episodes would surely follow. Do what you feel is better! In my situation, after my husband and I talked about it and we had the security at the time that this was not dangerous or threatening to live at all, we felt it was in the interest of all to move forward with sleep training. ~ Anne Katie says have things improved? My daughter used to do this all the time and since you didn't want to let her cry because she was going to get worse. It has reflux and is at a high dose of a PPI called Marci dosage. It's changed our lives! However, it stopped doing the episodes once the medication was right and now at 11 months it has started again. I think it's because we have cow milk! I hope you're sleeping better! Alexandra says I found this post a while ago and was so happy because the symptoms you enumerated were EXACLTY like my son Ethan. The spasms started in about 8 weeks. At first, it was only when he wasn't around, or if we had people, almost as if he felt overwhelmed. I would if a stranger held it. Then it got worse, they'd happen in the car! I read your article and immediately put it in the back burner because I thought, my boy never listens so he doesn't have a reflux. Like a ton of dairy, so it's not allergic. Boy was wrong. After months of what we thought were colds it turned out to be congestion due to a dairy allergy (almost safe) still waiting for blood work. Long short story, I have eliminated almost All dairy, (as much as I can read in the labels) their congestion has almost gone completely, but spasms still happen once at the same time. He still doesn't like car rides. I was hoping everything would be magically fixed. I have some questions, did you continue to breastfeed until your allergy disappeared or changed to a formula, if so, what kind? My boy has a night cough, he seems to be getting better, you got that too? I'm thinking it's connected... Do you have any information about my 9 months' diet/food plans? Lately some foods haven't been sitting well with him, so we've really simplified his diet back to apple sauce, tarated organic puré and 6-month-old boring food. How did a little boy sleep during this whole process? Mine sucks! He's got good early hours and now he wants to take care of all nights since midnight. I worry that my heresy milk bothers you and it hurts so good. Have you ever considered the medication? Thank you so much for your help! Alexandra says: Alexandra, thank you for coming and sharing your experiences. I hope we can all help each other with this dilemma by comparing notes and sharing what has worked. Here are the answers to your questions: Did you continue breastfeeding until your allergy disappeared or changed to a formula, if so, what kind? Like you, I've completely cut the dairy. I was still a nurse until I was 14 months old. Eliminating dairy helped tremendously with their episodes but it was extremely difficult for me. The reason he didn't change to the formula is that he felt that he was too risky, with them based on milk. I was an option, of course, but I didn't want to feed her soy. My boy has a night cough, he seems to be getting better, you got that too? Benjamin didn't have the night cough, but that can definitely be a classic sign of silent reflux or an allergy. Do you have any information about my 9 months' diet/food plans? This is difficult, because I feel like my son was changed a little when he got to the diet. Although I got sick until he was 14 months old, he wasn't exclusive at the time. In the 12-month mark, I started looking for whole milk substitutes to drink with meals. Unfortunately, I wouldn't drink goat milk and that would have been ideal. We settle for rice milk, which is nutritious but low in good fats. He's still a very small boy until this very day (at 8 years old) and I wonder why it's because we didn't do a good job with his diet as a little boy. My advice for you would be to contact a knowledge-based nutritionist so that you can check what you are eating and drinking now and get some help to fill the gaps. How did your little boy sleep during this whole process? Mine sucks! He's got good early hours and now he wants to take care of all nights since midnight. I worry that my heresy milk bothers you and it hurts so good. Yes, Benjamin got sick often at night, so much that I made the difficult decision to sleep training him before the first year. We were constantly waking up and exhausting! I say it was difficult, because I cared about how I wouldn't take care of it would cause crying and trigger more breathing spasms. But we did good. Because he had eliminated dairy at the time, he was having much less anyway. And it only took 3 nights to sleep the whole way. As a bonus, he immediately began to sleep better during the day; he changed several 20-minute naps for the most normal 2-3-hour nap. Have you ever considered the medication? For a short period of time, we tested a wedge and recipe Zantac. But the improvement was insignificant, and our goal was to get to the bottom of the problem, not just treat the symptoms. Anne. Alexandra says Wow thank you for answering my long and windless message. I'm happy to report you're doing a better one. He treated our little boy with reflux medications but he challenged things. He vomited a lot more and was pretty fussy so we took it off right away. I have decided a high protein diet with it the best quality of the local meats I can find. I have recently noticed that it is also really allergic to chicken. I'm starting to think that he doesn't have a reflux... he still has a strange spasm, but it's mostly after a good cry, so of course we're trying to prevent them. If you don't mind, please describe what sleep training method you did! He'd love some help with that, too, he's denting, so I'm not sure when the best time to start training would be... Thank you again! Says: Alexandra, you are more than welcome! I guess there's really no better time for sleep training since every situation and every child is different. Nothing is in stone. For example, many say that babies should not sleep at night in just a few months, but I had an exclusively ardid baby who did that at 3 months and all on his own. She did not return it at all and she is a vigorous and healthy 5-year-old who until this day sleeps like a trunk. With Benjamin, for allergy and poor sleep for both of us, I decided about 10 months to teach him to sleep all night. I'd take care of him until he was asleep and put him to bed. When he woke up during the night and ran away, he would console him and say "night" but he did not pick him up. Then I'd go back to bed and wait a while. He would still cry and after about 10 or 15 minutes he would come back and repeat. I would do this only a few times and finally go to bed and wait until he fell asleep. The first two nights he woke up twice. The third night woke up once. After that, he slept all night and his naps during the day greatly improved length and quality. This is one of those situations in which every night's nursing woke up didn't really do it or I was doing so much good. I hope this helps! Anne. Lisa says hello Anne, thank you so much for your article! My son (He is also a Benjamin!) He did this one night after a very hard crying spell about 3 months old and lasted the night. I was a little cold. He did it a few days later during the day after a long crying spell, but it only lasted a few minutes. It was still cold then. Now it's a couple of shy days of 6 months and it's doing it tonight after a very hard crying spell and has a cold again. Sadly I'm traveling on business so my husband is at home with him, which is really annoying for me to be away during this. Since it only seems to happen when you have a cold, do you think you might be tied to reflux or a dairy allergy? I've always been a HUGE dairy dining room (as if I drink a gallon of milk a week) so I don't think it would happen more often than that. Have you heard of other cases when it happens only when the baby has a cold? I would appreciate any thought you might have. Thank you again for your safety! Says: Hi, Lisa, you're the first one to comment here about noting symptoms only during a cold, but it doesn't mean at all that your child is the only one. Next time you're cold, you'd be watched and maybe you'd check on the symptoms or take him to your pediatrician so you could see the episodes. ~ Anne Jennifer Carter says hello I'm trying to find out if my 2-month-old daughter has the same problem. The other day she was shot and almost immediately began to have muscles and a breath pipe seemed hypo but no. The doctor told us nothing was wrong that he was upset about the gunshots even though he said he'd never seen him before. Now last night she was sleeping and a noise surprised her wake up she started waking a strange cry and then the hip gasping started and lasted 30 minutes like your experience no one has a clue and it's terrifying. She is a baby of allergy to milk protein and nutramagine formula. Thank you for any help.. the Carter family says Jennifer, how long have you been in the Nutramagin? Do you know how severe milk allergy is? It is possible that even with the sensitive formula that might have some mild symptoms like respiratory episodes. I'd mention it in your next baby check. ~ Anne Richelle Rozol says My baby was also experiencing this sort of thing occasionally that woke me up and I would find it so silly that I was scared... I see him breathing and I'd see him stop doing it for at least 5 seconds after breathing again. It usually happens at night that I looked after him and tried to wake him up. When I was still in my stomach I would experience a fast pace that I thought I might be having hypo (is it possible?) Then when your hypo was born he continues even if he is feeding (feeds with bottle), when he laughs, even if he is doing nothing. Is it normal? He's a healthy child through CS, and he's perfectly fine. But I woke up tonight when this sobbing thing happened again that I look for some answers and through this site somehow gives me a little relief, but I think if this persists then I could also look for a doctor's advice. Thank you! Tommy This is a late comment, but I'm 16 years old that I think I have that problem. All I know is when I cry I don't make sound so I forced my being to not make any sound and I guess that's why I think I cry like that. When I get it, I have a heavy breath like spasm and I couldn't talk. After crying, I'd have a little asthma. I couldn't breathe properly and a few minutes I'm back to normal vicki cleary says Here is the translation of the text you asked about... My 6-month-old grandson has the same problem as his children... the ENT called him "hipo". What a cuckoo! (I'm sorry, I'm not happy with that diagnosis) Home » Primary care » The spasm of the apnea of the weep or the weep: a review and a proposal for assistance Primary care 1998; 22: 112-22 Spasm of sobbing or cry apnea: a review and proposal for care The spasm or apnoea of pain: a review and a care proposal MJ. Torregrosa to , JL. blight b a primary care pediatrician. CAP La Mina (Institut Català de la Salut). Sant Adrià del Besòs (Barcelona). b Psychiatrist of primary psychoanalyst care. Unitat de Salut Mental de Sant Martí-Nord. Institut Català de la Salut (Barcelona). Shock spasms are a frequent and alarming phenomenon that occurs in seemingly healthy children. Its sequence is often quite typical and repetitive: abruptly and unexpectedly the child breaks in tears and then enters into apnea or, after a period of crying in which the child does not console, occurs apnea: the child stops breathing, Emits sounds like numb, pale, immobility or total or partial stiffness, or even falls to the ground more or less abruptly. Depending on an elementary descriptive and external element, the color acquired by the child in the crisis, these apneas have been classified as weeping spasms or sobbing 2 clinical forms: cyanotic and pale. PHYSIOPATHOLOGY These two clinical forms were described by Lombroso and Lerman in the 1960s. It is often said that their differentiation is important, since their physiophysiophysiological mechanisms are different and, from a psychological point of view, they can involve different events or psychological structures. However, there are also mixed forms: the child gets into cyanotic and pale. When crises occur with loss of consciousness, they have been mechanisms of postulated physiophysiology based on transient cerebral anoxia, mediated by respiratory phenomena (cyotic form), heart ( pale form) or mixed. Clinical and Natural History 2-9 The blue or blue form is the most common and responds to the classic description: if a discontent or frustration arouses in the affections of the child with anger and rage, or, as we said, after a demanding cry that perhaps feels like not enough The baby starts to cry more or less harshly, but mothers often recognize "like the one that causes the attacks." In fact, either after a period of crying or abruptly and unexpected, there comes a moment of silence, usually after a stirring. At this time we usually find the child with the mouth completely open and forced expiration. The face and trunk change color. After this silent pause, the crisis can be resolved with an inspiration and laborious without loss of consciousness (like form). If the image continues, cyanosis becomes widespread and the loss of consciousness occurs. Occasionally, postureal changes, partial hypertonies (or, on the contrary, hypotonies) may occur. They often progress quickly towards oisthotonos and can even lead to widespread seizure, with or without urine output. The pale shape or syncope has a significantly different trigger. In general it is a pain situation (e.g. trauma, even mild) or an unpleasant and sudden emotion: intense fear, frustration, unpleasant surprise ... The child suddenly, after a brief cry of pain, becomes pale. A certain bradycardia is the pathogenic responsible for this pale tone and the possible loss of consciousness. This brevity of the prodromes often makes the loss of consciousness and seizure the form of presentation, so that the crisis can be labeled as a state of affairs when, in fact, a careful anamnesis would make us think and compare such reactions to the fobical reactions of adults (before the blood, wounds, medical examinations ...) and, consequently, to check the homogeneity of the image, for us very doubtful. Whatever the type of spasm, the episode is always brief (from seconds to a minute) and the child quickly regains consciousness. After the crisis, you can feel depressed, and sometimes you even sleep. But if not, after a few minutes he resumes his usual activity and seems to have forgotten the initial discomfort. Recalling the situation, initial emotion or frustration, you may even start to cry again, but the crisis is rarely repeated in the following hours. Therefore, recovery is complete, fast and without demonstrable organic injuries.27221131 The key to the diagnosis is to thoroughly investigate the circumstances prior to the event. As Kreisler et al remember, citing J. Aicardi 9 , "a convulsion that constantly recognizes a trigger cause is more likely to be a respiratory retention spell a convulsion, whatever the form of convulsion, even if it is lateralized." .epidemiology 6Prevalence . We have come to speak of a prevalence of 27% for mild forms and 0.1-4% for severe ones, although, in our experience, both rates appear to be excessively high. Clinical types. Cyanotic form is the most common (54-62%). The distribution of the other two forms is 19-22% for the pale form and 12-19% for the mixed form. Starter age. They usually start in the second year of life. The different studies coincide in the presentation of the first crisis at 18 months of age (80-87%), with a wide margin ranging from 3 months to 4 years. In 10-15% of cases, up to 5 or 6 years may persist. As we can see, it is usual to debut in any case, within the period of the psychological process of separation-individence of the child with respect to the parental figures, a process that presents a key period between the first and fourth year 11-15. Frequency. They can occur from several episodes a day to one a month or less. The most frequent evolution tends to be an acme in the process of individuation, during the second year of life, with a progressive and spontaneous reduction of the crises afterwards. A family history is observed in 20-30% of cases. In addition, the possible persistence in the adult age of the syncops (in 17% of cases) and, with or without free intervals after early childhood, anxiety disorders and phobic disorders. Psychological understanding The components of psychological syndrome have already been postulated since the beginning of the century: it has come to call the box " respiratory emotional disorder " . In the psychological perspective, the syndrome can be understood from two different but consistent frames of reference: as a somatoform learned reaction, which probably changes the relationship of other members of the environment to the child. Of course, this is an undeniable perspective today, despite the indoblated nature of the organic physiopathology of the image. The other perspective of understanding is psychodynamic or psychoanalytic, which overlaps with the previous one and also tends to impart a sense of spasms during crying: it can be understood as individual reactions to frustration, pain and loss, and as ways of communicating and requiring behavioral and emotional changes in the child's environment 8,9,12,13 .27221132 The concept of containment and its opposite, the loss of containment and anxiety evacuation, can provide a general framework for understanding this image as well as indications for treatment. We accept here the concept of containment that has been adapted by one of us 10.16 for use in primary health care: "That emotional function or psychological ability to perceive and receive their own and other 'anxieties and incorporate them into ourselves without having to act (or act immediately) under their pressure." The function of containment, the result of the functioning of the basic processes and structures of the personality, allows us not to take action to anxiety, suffering, sense in ourselves or in others (these are the persecution that when the act, we do "at a level of" metabolizing "or the elaboration of the anxiety that fosters more development than the unchanged initial anxieties" 16 ). Some capacities contain sufficient well-developed have cognitive affective results that maintain an empathic attitude that suffers and therefore use all our mental abilities to help. It is the basic example, of which psychoanalysts such as Winnicott or Bion developed the concept, every time the baby cries, the mother becomes more or less anxious. But that anxiety doesn't mean or should not mean that the child or mother has to start a "movement storm" to calm him down: clean the child, see if he is cold or hot, move him, give him things, give him food... Well, what the mother does and in general any person with a certain ability to contain is to "collect" that anxiety and consider what is going on, so that their behavior or relationship with the baby will not have to do with all the possibilities, but with those that are selected based on their previous experience of relationship with that child, and not according to their own internal conflicts ... so, the mother works as a continent for the unpleasant: it contains what her arms and her body dictates. Thus, the baby and, later, the child is calm and progressively integrated, rather than disintegrating by the impact of anxiety. And, more importantly, containment and containment of abilities are introduced as models for the baby and the child. If every time the child is frustrated, and this creates in him anxiety, anger, and other unpleasant emotions 17 , mother or substitutes react by denying or projecting anxiety that the child transmits or trying to dissociate forget, pretending not to exist , the child will grow in an environment of lack of containment . It is easier, therefore, that a threat or suffering of any kind return to their experiences and attitudes, that is, to disintegrate progress more or less partially. If, furthermore, the mother and her substitutes do not contain the personal anxiety of crying and the frustration of the child and, therefore, organize appropriate behavior to calm or distract him or her or change her attention because the mother is overwhelmed by the O depressed anxiety, for example, the child may begin to develop models and dramatic ways of communicating her despair. First, it is an occasional, punctual situation, even fortuitous or facilitated by any biological element. But especially in the case of "blue" crises, once the child observes the family impact of the crisis or the first crisis, it is easy to understand that crying on the next occasions is even more inconsolable: He already has the experience that, in the end, only if the drama or urgency is intense enough that they will attend. And it's just that the child lives his internal events with that tension, urgency, persecutory anxiety... Your more or less unconscious fantasy may be that this adult inattention is now false, that your parents are false... Hence one of the factors of the trend towards the relapse of crises, at least until the child or parents attain higher levels of autonomy. The other factor that helps recurrence is biological: do not forget the feelings of intoxication caused by suffocation, by hypoxemia, which may be subject to a self-sensory secondary interest by the child, with the autocalmative characteristics many of hypersensory and autosensory these processes 18,19 .27221133 The proper notion of containment in our context should then be considered as an emotional function that helps the development of mental conflicts and external reality and, at the same time, provides the basic contribution to preventing chronic and, therefore, psychopathology. In these cases, it would appear that the child cannot tolerate the anxiety caused by frustration and projects it to his or her parents, who cannot tolerate or deny, project, act, with which the child feels less content and tends to project more anxiety, develop their abilities to make it feel the other ... sob spasm can be understood from this perspective as an indication of lack of containment, such as hyperactivity or being certain psychomatic disorders. But there is no reliable data to clarify why some children react with that sign and others with psychosomatic symptoms or increase of activity and motor action, although the disordered, disorganized and often aberrant behaviors of adults facing this problem speak well clear of the containment pathology involves: blows, strong and sudden sounds, unveil the child, cause his head in cold or hot water, cause his or her pain etc. As we said, the spasm of ablation manifests itself with predilection during the second year of life, a period marked by the conflict between the need of the child of greater autonomy and his fears of the exploration of the world; by the parents, by the conflict between their desires that the child becomes autonomous and, on the other hand, the fears of the growing autonomy of the child and/or the rupture of the mother-child couple. It is the age of locomotive acquisition, language, change of mental structures and use of substitute symbols of the absent person. Sobbing spasm plays a clear role in this process: through this spasm, mother and child repents the speed and depth of separation and anguish of it in that particular dyad; or the child manifests his need to control others, to control the relational and affective environment. It is important to collect that, in its most frequent form, the "cyanotic form", is a sign that, at the same time, is a manifestation through the body (somatomorph) and an impending manifestation of urgency, which makes us think of the kind of exchanges between that mother (fathers) and that child. From the psychological point of view, once other possible aetiologies have been eliminated, at least it is clear that there are conflicts in the mother-child relationship related to the increase of the autonomy of the child and its difficulty to confront only the difficult emotional states, or is a special form of communication, marked by that body and by the urgency of the "spasmodic" communication, not only clinical. The crisis of the apnea of weeping would be the way out to express unbearable emotional manifestations, difficult to express by other ways and the child feels urgent.27221134 Summarizing this vision, which should be regarded as a simple proposal of understanding and aid in these images, sobbing of sob can be understood as an extreme reaction to an unpleasant situation of any kind; in situations where, for the child, persecutory anxieties prevail 16 . In particular, clinical observation offers numerous examples of how these persecutory, difficult to bear for the child, relate to relational situations and in particular to the relationship with their parents: for example, separation or threat of separation from the mother or other significant person, jealous conflicts in which the care of children or parents end up trying to control one or both parents for what we could see, dispute from this perspective, as an early way, etc. The child, not subject to excessive anxieties, or situational or his own internal conflict, faces such events with various relational actions, which vary from child to child and are similar in the same child: demanding approach and search for body contact; or aggressive and angry reactions; or looking for more or less depressive isolation... Now, the children we are talking about in this review, in such situations they develop that abrupt psychosomatic disorganization, which we call the spasm of sobbing. This particular type of manifestation or communication using the body can obviously be seen as a somatoform or somatoform communication. However, on how to get there, what intrapsychic, relational and perhaps biological mechanisms lead to it, there is no unanimous agreement between clinical researchers or, as far as we know, enough controlled studies on the origin of the conflict. As a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, one of us (JLT) thinks that it is a plurified sign and a non-homogeneous image from the pathogenic point of view; although apnea crying is a somatoform symptom, it can be seen as a conversive form of influence affects other uses for this predominantly psychomotor disorder expression of the body, as a somatistic relationship In addition, the 2 classical forms of respiratory spelling seem to correspond to so many personality types or personality traits that are predominant different: The classic blue shape seems to affect more active and energetic children with opposing qualities. In these cases it is more common than the crisis is triggered by discontent: somehow, as we have said before, the crisis would be a form of somatized expression of anger. Children who develop the pale form tend to be passive, inhibited, fans, more dependent, often hypothetical and even timid activities that are not impulsive and quiet. The generally identifiable event of the crisis has to do with situations that cause significant emotional affection in them: persecutory anxieties or even anxieties about separation or pain experienced with great fear or physicality. What causes the crisis is usually an emotional rash of painful, anxious or phobic tonality, always unpleasant and sudden. Confirming that the psychodynamic approach of sobs has not been able to find the coexistence of other relational problems in these children: a relatively common anorexia and conflicts in relation to meals in the Clement Launay 12 series, in 9 of 23 cases The disagreement between parents and children with meals was the trigger of spasm. Another relatively frequent and, of course, non-specific accompaniment are sleep disorders in the observations of Kreisler 9.13 . Clinical follow-up studies tend to assert in these children a future increase in neuroticism and school problems. The family environment plays an important role in the maintenance of the syndrome and should be taken into account in the treatment of the same: if the crises have a relational component, it is normal to produce changes in the relational family, especially when repeated frequently and are clinically impressive. It is normal for the mother who, like the child, seeks a certain separation-individence of the same, like other members of the family grandmothers, father, other relatives, react with increased anxiety and, of course, with anticipatory anxiety before the possibility of the crisis is repeated. This often leads to avoid the child and changes in family relationships and organization that are more motivated by excessive anxiety than by an appropriate approach to the situation. We have seen mothers and fathers who, in order to avoid the child and avoid these situations of persecutory anxiety, have systematically escaped him or her in any matter, abdicating functions propose and maintain limits and rules and regulations of transmission, which are basic relational functions in each family, fundamental to the psychological development of young children 20 . In these cases, anxiety is not contained, but denyed or avoided in a febetic manner, which favors the child, almost always unnoticed, the development of such models of relationship that we can understand as manipulators or prefigurations of perversion: The child would gain parental control by means of the unexplained threat of the crisis. The relational situation can be extremely dramatic, although the clinical-biological is not. However, we should not forget that, on the one hand, the child is not aware of this manipulative activity, but it is reinforced by the primary and secondary gains it provides. On the other hand, especially at the beginning, crises are experienced by the family environment as a danger of death: the inculcation of guilt, frustration and/or anger in parents can be easily understood. If they are overwhelmed by depressive or factual experiences, or "discontents" and isolated, it is understood that "always" such a dramatic threat. But the result in children is a growing intolerance of frustration and, in extreme cases, installation in a form of relationship with their elders, based on a kind of tyrannical manipulation rather than the containment or resilience of the family structure Before anxiety. Diagnosis Despite all the above, it should not be forgotten that the spasm of the appropriation or the apnea of the crying is not a mental disorder; we have seen that it is a relatively common relational symptom and, as a symptom, it disappears or, less frequently, it is replaced by more "evolved" symptoms in the future. At most, in cases with numerous crises, a difficulty of family restraint and a certain difficulty in reacting to separation and autonomy can be assumed; it indicates the difficulty of developing frustrations, the mental separation of the object. Therefore, it is logical to think that later, it can evolve into disorders due to separation anxiety, phobic disorders, dependent traits, etc. Differential Diagnosis Although the diagnosis seems self-evident, it is important to evaluate these crises by carefully analyzing the events leading to the attack, the precipitating factors, what happened during the attack, and the nature and duration of the post-chronic period. If any of these aspects does not match what we have previously summarized, we must take into account other clinical entities to make a proper differential diagnosis: Convulsive disorders (epilepsy and pseudoizures), which can also cause changes in the muscle tone and alterations or changes in the skin color. In epilepsy, postureal and tone changes precede color changes. The most important feature for differentiation would be an abnormal EEG tracking. Seudo-convulsions are characterized by their persistence over a long period of time, exacerbation by stress, lack of incontinence and absence of post-cital phenomena: in reality, we should think of these situations of conversive or proto-conversive disorder of the child. Another possibility is the orthotic syncopy and fainting, but generally these images are not preceded by tears. They usually occur without excessive provocation or being induced by the act of suddenly rising from the lying position. Anamnesis will inform us of a sudden event with loss of muscle tone. Generally these tables are overcome by adopting the horizontal position and are more frequent in adolescents. Central or obstructive apneas (CNS) can also cause hypoxia, loss of consciousness and posture changes. Anamnesis and elemental clinical examination are generally sufficient for this differential diagnosis. This is what usually happens in otolaryngology and airway problems in general. In sleep apnea syndrome and daytime sleep drowsiness generally found characteristic background such as snoring, retraction or obstructive sleep apnea; Sleep disorders at night and sleepiness with sleep crisis during the day. The child may manifest delays in development or learning and behavioural problems. However, the spasm of sobbing occurs in healthy children and in full daily activity, so it cannot be applied to attacks that occur during sleep. We must also establish the differential diagnosis with other respiratory manifestations certain conditions: we refer to the crisis of the allergic respiratory manifestation, asmatic and asmatic crises, the bronchial hyperreactivity crisis ... Again anamnesis, simple observation and elemental exploration such as Ausccultation, will serve to differentiate the different problems in case of repeated crisis. You should also rule out the possibility of brain stem tumors that can cause dysfunction in the pontomedular area and at least consider the type of Arnold-Chiari syndrome malformations. At another level, we must ensure that weeping spasm syndrome is not part of psychopathological disorders defined as generalized development disorders, such as Rett syndrome, typical female; these girls may present peculiar breaths of sighs with intermittent periods of apnea that can be accompanied by cyanosis in the first year of life, although characteristic data are repeated hand, ataxia. In the syndrome, family dysautonomia (Riley-Day) would find typical stigmas, such as corneal ulceration, lack of fungiform papills in the tongue, unstable body temperature and less skin sensitivity. Sandifer syndrome is characterized by a crisis of abnormal postures, usually dorsal arch, deviation from the back of the neck and stiff neck. It occurs in some babies with gastroesophageal reflux. These neurological symptoms disappear by properly treating reflux. Congenital prolonged QT syndrome is a form of severe syncope that can occur with sudden seizures and death resulting from secondary heart arrhythmias to an underlying heart anomaly that causes that prolonged QT interval. Therefore, for the generally sufficient differential diagnosis: (a) complete medical history; (b) careful history of the crisis; (c) observation consultation of the disappearance of all symptoms and the exploration of signs; (d) regular scans and, where appropriate, specifics and (e) the natural course of the disease. They are usually sufficient criteria to distinguish the spasms from similar manifestations caused secondly by other processes. But the usual thing is that careful anamnesis, along with the total disappearance of the problem and the respiratory signs expected before an apnea crisis when the child arrives at the consultation, can prevent much of the tests. Evolution The evolution of weeping spasms is variable. Generally, the syndrome disappears spontaneously at 4 years and almost always at 7-8 years. The basis or basis for emotional and relational conflicts is visible in some cases, where the tendency to lipoty and fainting without apparent organic basis (17% of cases) or in others, less frequent, in which, with or without free intervals after early childhood, they are manifested by anxiety disorders and phobic disorders. But the anguish experienced by family members in such situations is important. In addition, this anxiety often leads to inadequate changes in family dynamics and relationships: the child may be treated with excessive condescence to avoid crises or with excessive difficulties during them; outside of them, perhaps as a "manipulator". Therefore, we propose that, in case of consultation, or even if the subject is mentioned collaterally in a medical visit, the pediatrician, the family doctor or the internist, have some criteria to help in these situations. Behavior of professionals before repeated crying apneas It has not benefited from anti-convulsive therapy in these situations. On the contrary, clinical observations suggest a worsening of the problem through medication and patologization; Willy – no, something that comes naturally with medications that are covered by the family and by an anxious family like a disease. There are no longitudinal clinical studies or observations that support the use of minor or greater neuroleptic anxiolytic in these children; in general, the use of psychotropic drugs has to be highly meditated at these ages, both for their biological side effects and for the high possibility that their chronic use interferes with emotional, relational and even cognitive development. In addition, the use of psychotropic drugs for this type of relational problems in childhood tends to chronicle inappropriate attitudes and relationships of parents and/or family members who might otherwise be modified. First, as we said, you should avoid considering the image as a disease or as a mental disorder. Furthermore, allow the family to consider it as such, that it would only further weaken its moderation or resistance. Therefore, one of us has developed a basic protocol for treatment, similar to another basic primary care for mental health 10.17 . This protocol or guide for the clinic begins from two fundamental premises:1. Consideration of the image as an indication of the difficulties of the family and the self-reliance of the child.2 . The need to stimulate the autonomy and capacities of the family in the face of these problems in primary health care, rather than making the population dependent on the health-industrial system. Protocol or Guide to Clinical Practice The following measures or measures should be taken into account: Diagnosis and differential diagnosis.2 . Health education: It is important to point out and highlight to the mother and family the experience, experienced by them over and over again, that the crises end without life-threatening, without leaving them to sleep, with no greater danger, provided that they do not exist, overcome or sub-intractive, convulsive crisis.3 . It seeks to help parents classify situations that trigger crisis: frustrations, threats of separation, fears, excessive demands, jealous conflicts... Any trigger can be diminished, considering that the child, at that time, cannot bear it: managing only the indispensable frustrations, avoiding unnecessary separations from attachment figures, avoiding competing with the child in "who escapes with him" ...4. I agree with measures that are persecutory to the child and/or parents: everything the child perceives as an aversive, persecutory, will only increase anxiety and anxieties in advance and, therefore, facilitates the lack of moderation before the child. The trigger of the conflict. There are those who recommend that, in case of isolated episodes, distraction techniques are used to blow strongly in the child's face, to press with a finger at the base of the tongue or to sprinkle with some cold water, but we have already shown our skepticism before these measures.5 . Because what is not doubtful is that the child is in those desperate moments to receive sufficient attention and tenderness. And that is perhaps the goal of non-medical treatment: to increase the safety of the child who has sufficient care and care without it supposed to avoid any limitations, counterresponsibility or rejection or any surprising or frustrating situation. It is something that should be explained to parents and help them understand and introject it. Among other reasons, because discussing these issues we can see parents who put too rigid and violent limits on their children or, on the contrary, mothers or parents who cannot put them correctly and feel supported and contained in turn by their partner in doing so.6 . Recommend, if the child is small, two types of reassurance measures: Avoid unnecessary separations or situations that may be experienced by the child as advertisements or threats of separation: days without seeing the parent, weekends or weeks away from the home, sending with other families before the birth of a brother, "colonias"Long or separations of parents during holidays, etc. If the child is small, or there is no indication of the eroticism of the relationship between the mother or the father and the child, recommend to increase physical contact with him for a few weeks: the physical expression of tenderness, often infrequent between these parents and these children, is the way to give them greater assurance of being loved. This recommendation is sometimes difficult for certain families to follow. The observation of this reality in follow-up visits is itself a data for the psychosocial diagnosis of the child and the family and, perhaps, a data that should be taken into account in consultation with the mental health team for children and adolescents, if the care attitude is not exclusively biological.7 . Crisis recommendations: In cases of loss of consciousness, it is advisable to place the child in a side position to avoid injuries or aspirations. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation manoeuvres should be avoided especially if the aspiration is possible, for example, if the crisis occurred while the child was eating. The dramatic behaviour of parents in the face of crises is the greatest facilitator of them. But we can't recommend distressed and often blamed parents to ignore their child's dramatic call. They also do not produce phobia in everything to avoid predictable crises. So in our case we recommend, in the crisis, a way to combine the actions of this group and the previous one: if the child is in crisis, avoid, where possible, any dramatic or persecutory action. Instead of hitting him, he wet, frightened or similar, we recommend that the father embrace the child with some force, clearly, and go with him to a quiet room, where the two are, child and father, At the same time, words of affection repeat slowly or repairing songs. Therefore, it seeks to provide emotional support, but based on the physical and concrete arms of Mom or Dad, so that breathing is why we recommend that the hug is stimulated, and not simply "attract" and avoid all kinds of Dramatism, replaced in this procedure precisely on the contrary: a quiet room or room and without the screams and concerns of the rest of the family members. On the other hand, it is a way to improve and increase contact between parents and children without having to openly prescribe it, a recipe that is often blameworthy. Furthermore, if the measure is successful, as is often the case, it is a way to increase the autonomy and organization of the family, rather than relying on the health team; it is a system that enhances the trust of parents in their own parental skills and, therefore, their ability to contain both their own anxieties and their children. Bibliography 1 Lombroso CT, Lerman P. Retention spellings (cyanotic and pallipid childhood syndrome). Pediatrics, 39 (1967), pp. 563 Medline 2 Psychosomatic disorders in childhood and adolescence. Buenos Aires: New Vision, 1992. 3 Psychosomatic medicine manual. Barcelona: Toray-Masson, 1980. 4 Kahn A, Rebuffat E, Sottiaux M. Short obstruction of the airways during sleep in babies with breathing spells. J Pediatr, 117 (1990), pp. 188 Medline 5 Golden GS. Non-epileptic paroxysmal events during childhood. Ped Clin Nort Am, 4 (1992), pp. 792 6 DiMario FJ. Breathing spells in childhood. Am J Child, 146 (1992), pp. 125-131 7 Stephenson JBP. Blue breathing is benign. Arch Dis Child, 66 (1991), pp. 255 Medline Referring to Fig. Sobbing spasm. In: Callabed J, Comelles MJ, Mardomingo MJ, Eds. Psychosomatic disease and its relationship with family and school. Barcelona: Laertes, Club de Pediatría Social, 1997. Referring to Fig. L'enfant et son corps. Paris: PUF, 1981. 10 Elementary protocols and programmes for primary mental health care. Barcelona: Herder, 1997. 11 psychiatry sipnosis. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1994. 12 Launay C. Les crisis néuropathiques de la petite enfance. No Hop, 17 (1974), pp. 1121 13 In: Levbovici S, Diatkine R, Soule M, eds. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Treaty. Vol. 5. Madrid: New Library, 1990. 14 Studies 2: separation-individence. Barcelona: Paidós, 1984. 15 Early childhood psychopathology. Masson, 1990. 16 Psychological components of medical practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 17 Mental health in primary care and primary mental health care. Barcelona: Mosby-Doyma, 1994. 18 Revised understanding of psychogenic autism. Int J Psycho-Anal 1991, 72, 4: 585-593 (Phinestone translation in Delgado-Aparicio G, ed., 1992. London-Lima: Imago 1992, 119-127). 19 Blight JL. Auto-sensuality in fantasy: reflections on early development based on a case history. Int J Psycho-Anal, 78 (1997), pp. 307-325 20 Prevention in mental health during adolescence. In: PAPPS and semFYC, Eds. A distance course from preventive activities and health promotion. [Links] Twenty-first The therapeutic observation of the child together with his mother (OTNM). Journal of Clinical and Group Analysis 1991 Says, thank you for finding this, Vicki! Gina says hi. I wrote a long time ago about my son who has these breathing episodes at night. Now he's 4 years old and he's not over what worries me. I am attaching some links below to videos I took from these episodes in the hope of finding someone who has a child who is experiencing this same thing during the dream. We've been with so many doctors and they've all said they've never seen this before. I know that's not true. I found another kid in the whole country who does the same thing. Unfortunately, your family is still trying to figure out what's causing this as I am. I think someone out there might know what this is. Here are the links: If your child does this or did it in the past, please comment below. I can also let you know what evidence we've done to this point. Thank you. Anne for this great blog! He says, "Thank you for the videos, Gina. That's how my boys sounded, even when they rested completely and didn't cry! ~ Anne Jamuna karki says Any suggestions? Joe says Anne – thank you so much for this article. We've been dealing with this since my son was born. He's gone a lot better and he hasn't had an episode for a few months until last night. Here's a video from 8 months ago. I respond later with more details about the pur experience. Says Joe, my children's arms would go up like this, too, when the gaseous was more pronounced. Thank you for publishing that video! ~Anne Katie says she came through her post while I sit in the 11-month bed. Everything you described is fine. I used to do this when I was little, but I thought it was about crying so much. It has reflux and is in doses of Marci (a high dose of PPI). Now I'm assuming this stopped for quite a while because of medicine. Today he had his first cup of whole milk (2oz). I haven't avoided dairy in my diet, but I've limited it a little. He didn't do well with yogurt. So maybe this is a reaction to milk and aggravate its reflux. Thank you for calming my fears. I'll check it out to be sure! Says: I'm glad to help in some small way, Katie! ~Anne Rebecca says Hi, I just got to a point with my 15-week-old guy who's doing exactly the same thing and he's still in my arms every minute. We had to spend this at 6 weeks and diagnosed silent reflux, now it's in a special recipe free milk and strong reflux medications so I was surprised how it happened again today. We're waiting to see ENt anyway as Dr said. that has floppy pipes but when they rush at a rate tonight they have no idea what it is and they say it's nothing sinister... so frustrating, but my point is that I still had it and it's free from dairy. It was after a hard episode of crying, but now he can't swallow his milk either... Can you tell me how long they last while it started at 18:00 and now it's 9.30 and still about 1 minute x Rebecca says, although dairy can certainly be a cause (as it was in ours), it is certainly not the only factor contributing to the episodes. Like your son, ours would have spasms that lasted a long time, sometimes all night. But they'd say less and less as the hours passed. I hope you can get to the bottom of the cause! You mentioned "float pipes," so maybe that suggests some kind of structural anomaly in the trachea? ~ Anne Leanne. I just found this yarn- my son sometimes for a few seconds up to a minute in his pants/obs/spis of sleep very quickly- was born 4 weeks before - diagnosed with reflux to 3 weeks old, cows milk protein allergy to 5 weeks and laryngomalacia that caused a stridor at 9 weeks ago - He's 8 months old now and the stridor has gone, we're due to tests of skin near to check Meital says hi! I'm so happy to find your blog as I couldn't find any information on this issue. I have 3 daugthers and my third experienced the same epizodes you have described (or at least I think so). I uploaded a video of my girl through one of the spasms and if you could take a look and tell me if that's the same – that would be great. I'm not so sorry about my spelling mistakes... Thank you so much! Meital. says Hi Meital and thanks for sharing that video. Yeah, that's exactly what my son's breathing spasms looked like. I'd stink in the air and then hold him and freeze. After a while, relax and exhale deeply. It would happen every 1 or 2 minutes per hour. Very hard to see and very nasty to him! Can you show this video to your daughter's doctor? ~ Anne Meital says thank you Anne. It's funny but it's a relief to know that someone understands... Spasms started when I was 8 weeks old and occur every 1.5-2 weeks for an hour or less. It happens during the night (not while sleeping). The first time it happened, we ran to the hospital and the staff there saw the spasms but couldn't explain them. Since then she went through 2 EEG's, brain ultrasound and blood tests to rule out any neurological disorder. Everything went well. They also monitored her heart (24 Holter hours) to see if something is cardiological, but she also passed that test. Doctors here take us very seriously but unfortunately have no answers or diagnoses for us. When I found your blog I could relate to every word on it as it really resembles what happened to my LO. After reading your blog I decided to stop eating dairy (accepting more and more) and certainly helped your colic but did not stop spasms. I really hope she grows... Thanks again for sharing... I wish someone could name these spasms so that mothers (and parents) get some answers. If you have any advice to minimize these spasms or how to handle them when they happen, I'll be happy if you could share. Thank you! Meital. Danielle says I know your post is older but you could email me.I feel like my son is doing the same thing and I can't get answers. I want to know if it's the same. David Vera says My baby was sleeping and was spitting in the air before the day, but now he's never done it before when his mother was born had high blood pressure, so they had to make a section of c that was born a month before he had fluid in the lungs, so they kept him for a week because he was breathing was very fast, but they released him for his first checkup everything was good for the doctor... But now this can someone please help us get out of the mother doesn't smoke me but we all get it out now and then just go out but really worry about her breathing.. Victoria Rogerson says thank you for sharing, I have a ten-month-old girl. And over the last three months she's been doing something very scary almost always starts with hypo and then we swabs sucking air and va floppy her eyes look so scared and then she's tired and she's going to sleep I'm waiting for her eeg to be done but I'm so confused about what's going on, I also have a ten-year-old son who never had I'm breastfeeding my girl and she can't put a point on it? Victoria says, have you tried to remove any of the main food groups that can cause reactions in breast-feeding babies? Dairy would be the first attempt, but you have to give him time, like 7-10 days at least, to see if that helps. Try to get your spasms on video and show on your next doctor's appointment. ~ Anne Esther Sullivan says that Hi Anne, I just wanted to write to you like my daughter, Maya, who's almost 6 months old has been going through the same EJO thing you described your passing son. We've gone to the doctors, hospitals, tests, some sat down their reflux but it's still a mystery to me. Our case is also triggered and exacerbated by stress and crying. Have you learned more details about what it was? I'm glad you left when you're old. I also cut a lot of dairy from my diet but not completely. What confuses me is that if it's really reflux, why then are the episodes triggered when they're upset and crying? Any insight or learning you can provide would be useful! He says: Over time, I noticed that the episodes were not always triggered by crying or being upset. This was important to discover the possible root cause; we knew it was related to something more than to cry. In fact, the first time I noticed the spasms and called 911, Benjamin was quickly asleep and was not upset at all. In our case, I feel strongly that it was dairy – specifically an allergy to the milk protein. His episodes diminished and eventually went along with his food sensitivity. There was a very strong correlation. But allergy is only a potential trigger, so I encourage parents to look at other options, and consult other specialists if removing a particular food does not make the difference. ~ Anne Esther Sullivan says Hi Anne – thank you for the answer. I completely emitted dairy from my diet for about 4-5 days waiting for her to be no more episodes, but she had another pretty bad today, unfortunately Ours seems almost always to happen after she's been crying pretty hard. Go see a neurologist soon, I hope we get some answers. Thank you for your ideas! says: Esther, you may need to remove dairy completely for about 2-3 weeks to accurately evaluate the results. This is what Kellymom recommends, as dairy takes a long time to be completely out of your system. ~ Anne Esther Sullivan says Hi Anne, will definitely keep cutting dairy for the near future. It wouldn't be amazing if that solved it and no more episodes! Praying for a miracle! Thank you, Esther. Kari says thank you, thank you, thank you so much for this article. My daughter is going up in 10 weeks of age and today I have experienced everything you described with your son. Today she had a big crying spell on her 2-month vaccination appointment (before she had the shots!!!). I couldn't understand what was wrong with her and she kept crying and crying a cry that I had never heard of coming from her, which in turn made me cry. I felt so helpless. Once he finally calmed down and left the doctor, I noticed this gasp/spasm/hypo. After a few hours I knew something wasn't right. It wasn't that the typical gasp that a child does when they came down from a tantrum and wasn't hypo. He was still fixed by the doctor, and he frequently jumped into Google and tried to write something in that semi-made sense to describe something that was happening to my baby. I didn't expect much, but this was the first thing that came up and as I read through eyes full of tears I found some comfort... Especially by reading through all the comments of the parents who also experienced / is this crazy type of phenomenon. I plan to see her as a hawk tonight and not to sleep much, but she will definitely save me and my poor baby from undergoing all those intrusive tests. I've been doing a lot of research all night and I can heat this up to the acid reflux accompanied by a stridor and more than likely an allergy to the milk protein (daily dairy). Thanks again for helping me make sense of what's going on with her so now I can take the steps I need to make her feel more comfortable. Xo Kari says: Kari, I am so glad that the post was useful! It is difficult for both parents and children, and not having any answer can be very terrifying at first! ~ Anne Bee says hello, This blog has been very useful. My 2-week age has suffered from this (treating " fighting to breathe) and was so terrifying when it first happened. We called the ambulance and ran to the hospital. They explained that he probably had a spasm in his throat. He's had another episode. My question is, is there anything I can do when an episode takes place? How can I make it comfortable? Is there anything I can do to stop it? If I'm concerned when this episode of air gas is happening... like I need to call emergency services every time? Or do I expect it to happen? Any support or advice you can offer will be highly appreciated. Thank you. Says, Bee, that's a very good question. My first thought is that in such a young child, there is nothing you can do to give relief because you can't teach him to control his breathing, relax his throat, etc. If what's happening to your child is the same as mine, then it's not really low in oxygen or literally struggling to breathe, so you don't need first aid. What could help put your mind to taste is getting something that could give you an oxygen reading, like a pulse oxide. If the levels were good then you could simply provide comfort if he is anxious, or help him sleep. ~ Anne Jas says Hi my baby started having this breath spasms after a long sub. He cried a lot and after experiencing the crying hypo. I'm afraid I don't know what to do. I did a page to the pediatrician, still waiting. I hope this isn't serious and my baby's fine. I don't notice other weird signs. If you experience this with your baby. Jas says, how long did the hips last? If it were an hour or more, then it sounds like what my babies experienced. What did your pediatrician say? ~ Anne Amy says so happy I found this blog. Thanks for sharing. It makes sense when I slipped and I got into some dairy today. It's not worth causing my baby the flu discomfort. Lorna says I'm glad I found this post. My son is almost 3 years old and I'm beginning to notice this six weeks. He only worsened with the age of tho for him, and it only happens when in a deep sleep. It's pretty scary to wake up and annual that you can imagine. As your son told me it was a case of Hiccup. So happy to know I'm not alone here as it's such a terrifying experience. Jo-ann Diamante says I'm experiencing the same. My baby is 2 months old and I'm so worried about her condition. I'm having a sleepless night. The only difference with my son's situation is that he was born with a transient tápiga of the newborn (TTN). The pedi said it has nothing to do with their situation as it was already resolved. I'm thinking milk can also be a factor as I'm mixing ( formula and Bf) as I can't produce so much milk. Thanks for sharing. Aleshia Blakeney says hi! My daughter (2.5 years) has done this since she was about 6 weeks old. We've done so many tests, ekg, seizures, car scan. And recently a dream study. He did the breathing spasms the night of the sleep study because he screamed all night. The study returned as a central sleep apnea and now they want to do a magnetic resonance.. I'm ready to find out if it's just normal spasms that she's gonna grow up with luck or if she's neurological as her doctors seem to think. He says: Hopefully, he will overcome them as my son did. Please keep me informed, Aleshia! Christina says Anne, have you heard of babies starting this later in their first year? My daughter just turned 10 months last week. Tonight he had a strong crying spell. He's on an antibiotic for ear infection, cough nebulizer and congestion, and tonight he's been doing very mild respiratory spasms... a lot imitating double breathing. He's been doing them for the last two hours. He's never done them before. He is currently using soy formula for the last month and has been taking reflux medicine as he may (the last five months) have significantly reduced the dose of reflux medicine in the hope of getting rid of it. Please, counsel! Christina says, that's a good question. Most parents who have commented here mention seeing this for the first time in the first few weeks or months, and that was our experience. However, if it was caused by an allergy, that might arise later, especially if it is something a baby had not been exposed before. I'm so sorry your daughter wasn't just sick, but having these breathing problems! Please let me know how you are doing and if the spasms/double breathing are improving as you recover from the respiratory disease. ~ Anne Madison says Hi, we've recently seen a pediatric neurologist who also suggests a magnetic resonance and sleep study. My son does this for hours at once and is NOT associated with crying. Are you able to share an update? Hopefully everything has been negative " that your daughter is overcoming this, but if you have any advice to share you would appreciate it very much. Thank you. Anne, if you also have any comments, please share. Thank you so much for this post. This has been the most informative post I've ever seen on this mysterious subject. Thank you all. Madison Says Madison, I hope we get an answer/current from Aleshia! And I'm glad my post helped keep the conversation about what's really a very mysterious thing! ~ Anne Chelsea says Stumbled through this blog when I was looking for my strange breathing daughters that happens occasionally. He did it for the first time a few months, but not often. It's exactly like the shared video only not after being angry and after having been sleeping a little. I suspected reflux because it's so random and it sounds like what I imagined breathing would be like you brought things to your esophagus. It's pretty noisy. It's been like a month since the last time, but he did it today during his nap. It usually only happens in the deep sleep " she sleeps in her womb. I usually sootéed her by rubbing her head and if she doesn't turn away then I hold her standing and that seems to clear her up. Then he dives again. Maxime says This is exactly what has been happening to my daughter, she had one of those episodes after a hard cry, and as she never cries, it hasn't happened like that again. But, she has important gas, often has diarrhea, very often briefly so gaseous for the air but feels good, she always has the hypo, when she feeds it is very fidgety and will scratch and kick me and when she sleeps she often has what seemed to me like nightmares and always throws her head back very far as if to straighten her path of chest to mouth, it cannot be good for her neck. Reflux and milk intolerance make so much sense to me now but I've never thought of it since it's never spitted... I feel silly now. He says: Those sound like reflux symptoms or sensitivity of some kind, but you could always have her checked by a professional to be sure, Maxime. Thank you for sharing your baby's experience! ~Anne Vikki Hall says thank you for publishing tjis. My daughter is 18 months old and Jad's episode scored this morning in her dream and continued for a few minites after waking up. These episodes only happen to him while he sleeps. It scares me every time. We've been told that he has a movement disorder that is not diagnosed yet. He had a magnetic resonance at 6 months too a wooden punch, full blood, genetic tests that all came back well. We are still waiting for a test that was done at the same time and 12 months in the results are still pending. She was breast feeding and because of my flood supply we had to start feeding bottles. (She's my first child). His movements were picked up by doctors in his 4-month check. They've increased as time has passed. has a muscle tone under poor head control can't sit alone. I know this might sound a little strange in you, can't it possibly mention spasms of a reaction to the milk protein that this is only in the throat region or could it spread to other parts of your body? He says: Vikki, I'm sorry to hear about the difficulties your daughter is having and will surely keep you in my prayers. If you have an allergy to the milk protein, you may have other effects on the body in addition to the respiratory system, such as stomach upset/spit and also chopping eyes, hives, etc. ~ Anne Victoria says Hi Anne Thanks for your job! My son's been doing this ever since I was a baby. Now he's 3 and a half years old. This happens on average 3 times a week and always around 6 or 7 in the morning. I went to a ENT and said it was sleep apnea. He was booking my son so that the operation had his tonsils when I excluded that it is necessary if it only happens 3 times a week for ten minutes or so. (The thought of sending him to surgery so young scared my life!) Then he told me to keep a journal. I didn't come back when her attitude of shooting at surgery made me feel uncomfortable. Am I not sure what my next move should be? Can you try to see if it can be a problem with dairy or something else? Thank you. says: The best way to see if it is sensitive or allergic to dairy is to cut it completely and see if the episodes stop. Dairy takes a while to leave the system, so make sure you give the test a good 10 days or so. ~ Anne Andrew Odlaug says Hi Victoria – this has recently begun to happen with our little girl for almost 5 months. Interesting that both recent documented occasions were at a similar time around 6:30AM. I wonder if there's anything in that. Anne – do you mind if I send you a video of our Anna, to confirm that it is a similar phenomenon? Thank you very much. Vivian says I'm grateful I found this article. Our little girl had her first episode at 2 months old, after being pretty upset. It was terrifying. She was gassing for the air, then she would stop, get a scared look, and make a grunted noise trying to gas for more air. It didn't last long. It happened again a few months later, and when I told my pediatrician about it, he said he only had his breath. Well, if you see this as a father happens to your son, you know it's more than that... so I did research. We found an article about spasms of sobbing, and something like that was from there to know what it is and that they will eventually grow from it. This led a pretty spoiled baby, as I never wanted her to, too. angry or an episode happens. She's two now, and she's had several episodes since. A few months ago he was so terrifying. She was blue, sweating, and completely stopped breathing for what she felt forever. We have learned that if you distract her (and keep her quiet) enough to relax her airways, it usually happens. So terrifying. He says: Then could it be possible for his daughter to be having these breathing spasms and also breathing spells? ~ Anne Marie Rebecca says Omg thank God I found this blog. My 14 weeks just started doing this. Samantha says hello, so I have something and as a father who has a hole had enough of the career with doctors this place gave me hope. I showed the site to the doctors to help them finally understand what has been going on with my little boy who has been going through this for a year now we have a diagnosis after seeing an allergy specialist with 40 years of experience and has only seen this four times and my hair helping along the path Eosinophilic oesofagitis It's what my son has only 1 in 10,000 babies get this, but he also had every symptom that his babies are still not well and trying to figure it out yet but I hope this is answers kids of all forms of this by the age of two Cheers Samantha. Samantha says My child also had these symptoms of basically five days old if not before Jessica says that's so interesting! I'm starting the test process and everything with doctors, but my husband has an eosinophilic esophagus! I wonder if there's a connection? Jen says I'm so intrigued to find this post and soooo many comments on it! Let me start by saying I'm a perfectly healthy 37-year-old woman, no allergies or intolerances or something, and I've always done this! Even now, if I have a big heart scream (e.g. watching PS I Love You during that time of the month), I'm going to have these sober spasms for at least an hour later, maybe more. And around the 4-5 hour mark, so HOURS after the rest of the spasms have decreased, there is usually a large composite spasm and tends to mark the end of the "episode", as everyone is calling it. Curiously, only in recent weeks I have come to realize that this is not simply normal – I thought everyone did it!! The good news for all of you is that I can tell you that to the person "suffer" they, these simply feel similar to having hypo – the same kind of category, anyway. They're annoying but not painful, it's frustrating when you end up crying and try to have a conversation and they're still coming. Both daughters (almost 3yo, and 7.5 months) do the same and have since their birth, and since I thought it was totally normal I never considered taking them for tests, etc. But I started to scrub tonight, because my younger, usually a good sleeper, and that you can sleep if you put her in bed and walk away, you can't get too upset before she falls asleep or her sobs will constantly wake her up at the end of each sleep cycle. So I was looking for a way to cut short episodes, but it doesn't sound like there's an answer for that! However, I hope that the safety of a "suffer" that your children don't really feel they are suffering will help. I have always called them hypo inverse, it is something like they feel 😉 says Jen, thank you for sharing your experience as an adult who still experiences these spasms! More and more I meet stories of teenagers and adults who did not overcome it. I'm glad in these cases it doesn't seem like there's any underlying health problems. ~ Anne Marie Alexandra-Judd D. Sheppard-Alzabidi says We are also going through this with our daughter. Thank you for your job! Says: Any news, Alexandra? ~Anne Marie Ruth says hi, Anne. Thank you so much for sharing this post. My son just experienced this and was driving me crazy. With him it was after a long and hard crying, waiting for him to leave son. says, "Do you still experience the episodes, Ruth?" Kristi says thank you so much for writing this article! My son will be three in October. He's had this condition for a long time after birth. We thought he was missing until I woke up tonight. She woke up crying... I guess it's a dream. We have also made several connections for the first time thanks to your article. I'm very grateful. I've thought several times that his bad crying was sending him to asthma attacks. I had no idea what was really going on, so I would make appointments and use your inhaler, just trying every way to calm it down. We also changed their milk to the free lactose a year ago because it was also receiving the skin rashes that shook enormously with the switch. Your article puts all this together. He did good for a long time. However, I recently wanted some of my light yogurt vanilla and I thought it was a little older now we'd try. He's had it for a week. With the episode tonight, we see that we will keep it in lactose-free milk that is still in and there are no regular dairy products at all including yogurt! The video you posted sounds like our son... identical. It can be so terrifying! I hope my son will grow up from this too soon. I think we have to see your entire diet a little closer. This article has been a can opener and will help us move forward. Thanks again for sharing your story! Jessica says thank you so much for publishing this! My baby is 14 months old and has been doing this since maybe about 6 months. I casually mentioned it to the pediatrician on his 12-month visit because he wasn't so worried about it because he looked like a hip and after dealing with some real respiratory problems like a baby and didn't seem to be in trouble so I didn't think about it too much. The pediatrician did not have a good understanding of what he was talking about, but I also mentioned that I had seen some videos of children doing so he asked me to watch those videos. I knew 100% that if I could find videos of him, my pediatrician would know what was going on. Well, I showed him the videos and the answer was "I've been a pediatrician for 20 years and I have no idea what's going on." I was surprised to hear that, currently my pediatrician is trying to decide which tests to run and which specialists should refer to us but she is really not sure where to start, she showed the videos to a pediatric lung doctor and GI doc I think and they had no idea either. So we're waiting to see what's going on. Looks like it's developing normally and I can't say allergy problems, but I'll mention that maybe allergy tests as a starting point? I also read "Sobbing Spasm or Crying Apnea: a review and a care proposal" and the article was more about the retention of behavioral breathing, described children who hold their breath after a frustrating incident and because they have immature nervous systems that are able to make them turn blue and/or faint. He didn't really answer what's going on here. course I found another article written in a French magazine that I've requested through the library that sounds promising so if he shows up with something I'll let you know! says Jessica, thanks for the information on the article "The Spasm de Sobbing", and for the tip of the French article. If you're lucky, or something new, please share them! ~Anne Marie Jessica says thank you! There are no developments really, although her separation anxiety is at a peak right now, she won't even leave her father near her and it's been a couple of weeks since the last episode so I personally discarded anxiety as a cause. Looks like we're going two weeks of really bad episodes 1-2 per night lately and then a month or two without one at all. She eats the same things every week so I don't think it's a food allergy. My husband has America so I could ask the pediatrician to explore this as a possible route, but I'm not sure yet. I find it wild that so many people experience this and no doctor (in the world it seems) can provide an answer. Sam says Hey Jess that's what they think is causing spasms the symptoms of the U.S. in babies are hard to feed, in babies. Difficulty eating, in children Vomiting Abdominal pain Difficulty swallowing (dysphagia) Foods trapped in the esophagus after swallowing (impact) No response to GERD medication Do not thrive (poor growth, malnutrition, and weight loss) Live in Australia and the Royal Melbourne Children's Hospital will do an endoscopy in it in the coming months to take a look at why these spasms could be happening and why the reflux will not establish that you are 18 months old now with non-IGE allergies to dairy, soy and egg that we have food under control but still have a lot of control Kim says how did it go? Shanika Cole says hello my name is Shanika My son is 6 months old and now he's gonna throw this same thing that I took to the doctor who couldn't find anything... This is terrifying that I have to wake him up while scrubbing his chest and calling his name. This is a terrifying show... He's had two previous episodes the first one that was only 2 months was like hypo that I didn't really think of any of that, but I called the doctor the second time and I took him in.... It was like the hip then he would stop breathing and fall back with his relaxed body... They found nothing... I'm not sure what to do. Says: Any news, Shanika? ~Anne Marie Casey says hi! My daughter has been making the same strange sounds since she was about 4-5 months old and now she's 14 months old. Long story short, we found out he has the Chiari malformation type 1. She was first seen in Massachusetts's eye infirmary and told us she has great adenoids, but the ENT wanted our daughter to be seen by a world-renowned pediatric neurologist in MassGeneral and ordered brain resonance and you wouldn't know that she has this Chiari malformation that tends to cause sleep disturbances in people who have her. My daughter has a 2-week appointment in Boston with a pediatric neurosurgeon. I just wanted parents to ask for brain MRI! We are lucky because we live in Massachusetts with access to some of the best specialists and Chiari is something that people don't know much about! says Hi Casey and thank you for sharing your daughter's experience. I read something about Chiari Malformation Type 1, said patients usually don't have symptoms until late childhood or adulthood. It also seems to be a condition for which there is no cure, but my experience and that of many others is that babies eventually exceed rare breathing patterns. I'm thinking maybe Chiari Malformation is something totally different from what my two boys experienced, but there could certainly be a slight overlap in symptoms, as is the case with many health conditions. Since no one really knows for sure what we are dealing with here, and since it is impossible to know if all those who have commented here are actually seeing the same symptom in their children, I warn your recommendation to consult a qualified specialist, if possible, and look for additional tests if you are not receiving any answers. ~ Anne Marie Kaylan Edgington says My son is 17 months old and has just started having these episodes a few days ago! I even called an ambulance. This sounds like what's wrong with her! I nursed my son and had dairy all the time. He's had cheese, yogurt and everything I've been so confused about why he's starting to bother him now. . He says that I have actually changed to rice milk, which they tolerated very well, but unfortunately it is not so nutritious. Allergy to milk is only a possible trigger. My theory is that any allergies could cause episodes. ~ Anne Marie Name says My experience This has been happening to me when I cry. I think it's because I hold everything and when I cry it all comes out. I have to be able to control it to get rid of it, today it took me 40 min and I still get like a hip though it's not a hip because I can't breathe when it happens. I feel it's worse when the person who can make you cry more makes you cry. This person has to mean a lot to be so bad. It's like a trauma to me when you do something bad and get angry and say painful things that I can't control it. Even if I'm done crying, go ahead and then start crying for another reason that's because I can't breathe. But when you cry for something the person said you feel like you're going to disappear. I couldn't see very well that everything was turning black until I put water in my face was like waking up. I saw the video and it's something like that, except you can't hear the hip because it goes so fast that sometimes a hip passes through the other hip. Both in my case I don't get a break to breathe on my own (which means that the hip makes you keep breathing and you can't let the air out). One way to describe how he looked like a hip repeating instantly so that your chest moves even if your whole body is relaxed. And when you take deep breaths so you don't cry, they give you more hypo (I call them hypo because I don't know how to describe them). I felt my heartbeat when this was happening and was going very fast, I also started shaking at a point (which is when I couldn't see). When I looked in the mirror I saw my face hurt and it was a red color. And when I saw the person again, I got the hip again and started crying again. But I feel the reason I started crying is because I didn't want to experience breathing again... Once they went somewhere else I started to control myself, I finally managed to control my breathing. And I decided to find him because this happened a couple of times when I cried. The only reason I'm saying a couple is because I don't cry too much and when I do that happens so I avoid crying first. It only happens when I cry... I'm 14 years old I'm spinning 15 this year so I don't think this is just for babies I haven't read much about my problem this is actually the first article I've read. It's been almost an hour since this has happened and I've been testing my breathing and it's been 3 minutes before it turns into an hour and I just stopped taking the hip. I also don't think this has happened to me when I was younger, so I think about it as a trauma because I'm positive I would have remembered the feeling. He says: Although it seems that most are overcoming the problem, its history and that of other adults and adolescents who have published here, they prove that it is not always the case. ~ Anne Marie Bmarie says I've always wondered what this was. I had it until I was 20. The last episode I had was after my grandmother died and I cried very hard. I had reflux as a baby and my parents assumed I grew up from the reflux as a child. As an adult I was diagnosed with GERD and the final episode really coincides with my diagnosis and treatment. I've experienced both double breathing and this. The best way to articulate how he felt is an acute involuntary intake of breath with a closed jaw and a sense of panic with extreme relief to be able to breathe again. It was a feeling of being unable to move my mouth for several seconds, along with being unable to breathe. Often my lower jaw would mock the intake of breath. I've been looking for answers to this for the last 13 years because it was so rare and no doctor could provide a diagnosis. says, "Would you say your GERD treatments solved both the reflux and spasms?" Thank you for sharing your experience! ~Anne Marie Daniel Hickman says thank you so much for the position we had this same experience tonight and was worried. After seeing the clip you uploaded we realized it was exactly the same as our 3-month-old daughter was experiencing. She was asleep and was comfortable and cozy but taking 2-3 quick breaths and making the same exact noise that we woke her up and seemed to be less but still there, but she ate and went back to sleep. You were right about nothing at all being on Google I searched for 20 minutes before I found my post now I can sleep easy knowing that it is not in danger and there are others who have experienced this gratitude Mal says Hi, I read a lot about babies in this matter (and you're righ there's no exact information on the Internet) I wanted to tell you that Im 20 and I've had exactly the same thing that's happened to your child since I was a baby. After weeping a lot, I'd have what looks like a very intense hypo for a long time and then they'd leave. My point is I'm 20 years old and I still have them. I have no problems with dairy or any other allergy and it only happens when I want to cry during an argument or if I'm crazy and someone is yelling at me. It's almost always a combination of a struggle that wants to cry. Yvonne Nelson says hi. Just an idea. Since both children have experienced these same problems, have you considered reviewing them for Phenylketonuria (PKU). There is a specific diet for this genetic disorder and could be useful for your children to avoid later on in life seizures if they have PKU. Thanks for your blog and your insight. God bless you all! Danielle says I tripped with this post after looking at AGAIN to find some online explanation about why my child (currently 18 months) was having these breathing episodes. Like you, many of the other parents who have had several trips to A and E and have spoken to several doctors, none of whom I can explain what is going on. Yours is the first thing I've found that has made me see others who are going through this! The video you posted is also exactly the same noises my boy makes... so now I can use his to show ppl what I mean. Thank you for this reading, it makes me that little more comfortable and it's good to know that I'm not the only one! says: Danielle, I am so encouraged that the post is helping somehow, and I look forward to more information from the scientific community about all this (God wants). Laura says this was very helpful! I hooked myself to cry spasms today after my year of age was asleep still spitting after biting his lips. She's breastfeeding, has a milk allergy diagnosed & I ate nachos last night! How useful to know about this weird problem! Charlotte says I just want to thank you for posting this blog. He saved my sanity! After the birth of our third son, I knew from day one something was not right with her. She was uncomfortable and without permanent solution. He never slept more than an hour or more at once. She would be asleep for a minute and suddenly woke up crying in pain where she had such a severe silent reflux and then drowned and coughed where she swallowed it. At 5 weeks he had his first gas/spasming episode that lasted from 3pm to around 2am the next morning. Looking back in the back view I wanted to have gone at a pace, and although I was stiff in fear of a strange way I knew it was okay... it was not blue or mottled and his lips were pink. He settled in and put it in bed as normal where he fell asleep but of course he still was gassing. I wasn't causing him any trouble. I, on the other hand, was an image of yourself, sat there in the dark looking at it as a falcon. I'm afraid to sleep in case something happened. I would never have forgiven myself. Fear kept me awake until he finally stopped. We went to the gp on 7 different occasions, explaining the symptoms, showing the medical videos of her respiratory episodes and all they said was that it sounds like she's been crying and is softening. Even though I would explain that I had not cried at all! Eventually after iogling every night at the first hours of the morning investigating causes for this strange symptom I ran into his blog. I broke tears knowing someone else knew what was going on. I started to deepen allergy research and after I was sure that was what I went back to the gp. I didn't leave until they prescribed a hypoallergenic formula. Finally, my baby was diagnosed as a reflux and allergy to the protein of cow milk. After changing to the nutramigen formula and while I was breast-feeding I was free dairy, she was a different baby! Unfortunately at 16 months it still has an allergy to cow's milk protein (CMPA) and we have discovered that it also has a sofa allergy (such as the proteins in cmpa and soy are very similar, so it is likely that a child suffering from cmpa will have the possibility that they are also intolerant to soy) but will not be careful in food planning and has become accustomed to the food that he or her children can eat. The only thing that can cause discomfort now is when your reflux sometimes activates what I'm guessing has been denting recently and has had 3 molars through. Also when it's not okay with a cold, her reflux seems to be triggered and I wouldn't be surprised if she was astatic. I just want to say that I don't want anyone to think they're alone. If you have the instinct feeling something that's not right, go ahead and go on. Medical professionals as amazing as they are sometimes in situations where they cannot be 100% sure of what is wrong. Keep an event journal, do your research, reach out to people who can give help and advice and especially trust their instincts. You know what's best. Good luck. Charlotte says, it means a lot that it took so long to share what happened with her daughter and how she worked with her doctor to address breathing spasms. Thank you very much, and I hope your story will help other families! ~ Anne Marie Gemma says My daughter has done this since she was a girl and still does it now, she's a four-year-old. There is no allergy to milk or reflux, but has epilepsy and mioclonus. My son is almost 10 months old, he does the same, without apparent epilepsy yet, possible mioclonus, without confirming it. Allergy-milk protein cows, reflux, possible asthma but for young people for diagnosis has an inhaler. I wonder if they relate anyway. I'm convinced I'm gonna find some gene mutation or autoimmune problem, or something. I'm sure my son will start seizures around 18 months, gut feeling. I hope someone finds out more about this one day. Jess F says This has been such a useful blog and describes EXACTLY what we are going on with my 7-month-old son. He's our third and we've never experienced this with our other two boys. These episodes only occur after weep intensely – we have experienced them three times. I couldn't find anything online that matches what we're seeing until I read this. Thank you! I'm planning on trying to record an episode to show our GP as he thinks he's breathing tenure – no doubt no! I will also show you your blog; it has been very insightful. Says I'm excited that it's been helpful to so many families, Jess! Great idea of capturing what's going on in a video. ~ Anne Marie Ash Morton says Hi Anne-Marie, the same is happening to my daughter tonight – the only difference is that it's the first time and she's 16 months old! She has never had any kind of reflux or allergies, we filled her with everything since she was 6 months old hoping she wouldn't get any reaction in the future. I picked her up from nursery this afternoon and I went to hand over her pacifier, but she hung it and spit it out, tried it again and she said no. I assumed 'great, you just had enough of it'. The teacher said, "I hope I didn't swallow anything," which I thought was weird, but what I know, is my first child," I imagine if he's eaten anything I'll find him in his nanny later, it's probably not a big deal. We head straight home and then this weird breathing started as if it were in and out of gas for the air. I actually thought he was breathing grace because he was peeing in his nanny and his homeless man was a little pained. Then 2 hours of crying (he hasn't cried since he was a week old) – finally asleep and breathing 'son' has started exactly as his video... I'll take her directly to the doctors tomorrow I'll stay in bed now picking up and getting up, wait till morning? She's asleep and happy, am I worried for no reason? I never realized that motherhood was so much torture in your soul! Anyway, big pole. It made me feel much better, especially with the video to relate to! He says you can definitely wait till morning, Ash! Especially since its contents, it is a reassuring signal. But I understand how worried you are! J says Oh man, this is exactly what happened to my son. I was terrified. It also has allergy to milk and noisy breathing. He had an eruption that now leaves, (once we realized it was milk and cut dairy, a few days ago). Thanks for this post. Alexandra says Wow! I can't believe I found this post! My son's been doing it for some time. He has no reflux or allergies we know, he's 9 months old. I used to do it at night, sleeping. But now he does it after weep. Can I email you with the video and see if it's the same thing you saw in yours? It's very healthy but vomiting quite easily, it might be irritating your throat. I don't know, I feel sorry for him because he seems to stop breathing for a while! I hope it gets over quickly! says: You can send me a video via Facebook, Alejandra – ~Anne Marie Kristin Brander says would you mind watching my daughter's video having an attack? This is your second time having so severe spasms, that occasionally you will have less severe "gasps" Last time this happened, she was hospitalized. The EEG cleaned normal. In search of solidarity, this is so terrifying. I brought it, and there's no diagnosis. Everything looks like "normal" so frustrating! This can't be normal! Thank you very much. Kristin He says, it looks like mine! I left a comment on your video of You Tube. I hope others see it and share it with the doctors! ~ Anne Marie Kristen says he's looking for Sandifers' syndrome! This exact thing is happening to my daughter... I really saw your video on YouTube when I was watching videos frenziedly this past month! We also made a trip to the ER and just did an electrocardiogram 2 days ago and the doctor diagnosed it with Sandifers syndrome! I think that's or at least I'm hopeful! says Hi Kristen, thank you for sharing your experience with Sandifer. After doing some research, I don't think you explain what was going on with our kids, or most of the kids mentioned here in videos or comments. Here are the key differences:1. There were no convulsive or distonic movements of the head, neck, eyes, or trunk (like Sandifer) 2. Spasms can last hours, even all night, while Sandifer's episodes are short-lived (perhaps 1-3 minutes to most) 3. The respiratory spasms I describe seem to be completely involuntary, and often happen in deep sleep, while Sandier's movements can be learned/voluntary, as the child feels they bring some GER relief. However, it is interesting to note that both disorders may be linked to the allergy to dairy protein. Apparently, the body can react in different ways. So I encourage any family who sees seizure and seizure movements in a child who just ate to ask about Sandifer. Thanks for the useful information! – Anne Marie Queen m says Wow! I finally found an article about what's happening to my baby who's 8 months old. It started after 2 months of shooting and since then it happens when it cries a lot. We've seen the pediatricians who told us that their nothing to worry about, and also consulted a pediatric neurologist and the EEG turned normal... He still does this every time he cries a lot.. He was always skeptical that he had carbon reflux that still until now after the burping gave him milk and then swallowed it. But the pediatrics told me as long as he did not bother him and did not interfere with his growth that this is not a case of reflux that should be treated. How can I make sure the reflux isn't causing this? My mom's instinct is telling me since she was born that she suffers from reflux, but I never thought of spasms and this correlation. What makes you think they're related? If they were, why do these spasms only happen when they cry a lot and not when they drink milk (it began to have 2 bottles of formula with breastfeeding) Thk u! She says, Queen, I wish I could give you a definitive answer. My post simply shares my experience and my theories based on the facts and research I did. As far as possible, reflux was only a possibility (for documented symptoms that have reflux patients, one of which is throat and apnea problems). You could also see an allergy of some kind, the physical structures of your throat/ esophagus, etc. And also, if you have a video of spasms, please show them to the doctor. I hope this will help you! ~Anne Marie Kenyatta Todd says hello to everyone, I'm not a mother, but I realized breathing spasms 2 years ago. When I, myself, experienced them after the death of an aunt. He was 22. He had an extreme case because he cried every day and night for a week. Just to put words to what your little ones might be going on, it can be painful but not always some are worse than others. It's like a sharp chest pain. They're worse when they're awake. I never noticed them when I slept. So sleeping is peace. He put a strain on my body, but I had an extreme case again. It lasted for about a month and 2 weeks to give you insight into the extreme of a case that was. I hope this doesn't scare anyone. I just thought it would help put words to what little ones can't tell. says I've been reading this article and ALL the comments for the last hour. My daughter has been having episodes of this in her dream every night for weeks. He's seen an ENT that diagnosed him with reflux and laryngomalacia. He's 6 months old. I have a bite of your breathing here – I've been losing so much sleep over this and I haven't gotten any answers or solutions even though we're at the doctor every week for this. Everyone tells me to "have an eye on him to see if he gets worse." How am I supposed to do that if I'm asleep? I'm lost. Can you hear my clip and tell me your thoughts? In addition, we use a bird oxygen monitor and its oxygen is given at 90s-highs 80 when this sound is happening! He says: Heather, without watching video, it's a bit complicated to compare, but I would definitely say that sounds are similar, especially that high-pressure element (such as the stridor). It is usually a sign that the airway is affected, and it is also probably why you are seeing the low oxygen sits sometimes. Have you ever seen retractions in your chest during the episodes? That would be worrying. I'm glad you could confirm the reflux! Have you noticed any improvement since they treated her? If not, I would return to your TNA and ask for a different medication and also try lifestyle changes, and look closely at your diet (if you are breast-feeding) and yours. I have the feeling that it's not going to get worse, as you're on top of things and she's under the care of a doctor, so rest your mind on that! Reflux in babies usually resolves, as is the case with laryngomalacia. You have my prayers and sympathy. I know how stressful this can be for you and your child! – Anne Marie Katie says Hi Anne Marie, Thanks for sharing your experience. My son has also had these episodes that began to occur when he was nine weeks old. The first time they happened was moments after their vaccines when she started crying extremely hard. We've done multiple tests and we've been admitted to a child hospital. Doctors have told me that they believe it is induced by reflux and a possible breathing response to pain... Now it's 8 months and it happens less often and less serious, although it still happens when it cries intensely. He is in Nexium and I drastically changed my diet to remove dairy, soy and egg (feeding). I'm just curious about the possible dairy association you noticed. Did you notice that the episodes were completely solved with the extraction of dairy or simply improved? I am diligent in monitoring my dairy diet and although the episodes are better than they have yet. I'm curious if you have any other allergen or intolerances that I'm not aware of. Have you heard of other specific food intolerances associated with these events, possibly others that have shared their experiences? In addition, have your children experienced any ongoing food allergies/intolerances or any other problem that you feel is related to these? Thank you so much! Katie. He says: The episodes were almost completely gone, but not 100% because at that time (more than 1 year old), Benjamin was eating a lot of solid food and so I guess every time you dairy as an ingredient, he became his diet accidentally. If you look through comments, you can see if any other family has shared allergy triggers as well as dairy. Ultimately, the best person to talk to you would be an allergist. ~ Anne Marie Mel says Hi Anne, I found your article when I was investigating this phenomenon. Your kids must be older by now and you probably figured out why or your babies had already overcome it. When I read this, I had to share because I am a living example of this phenomenon. Yeah. I've had similar episodes when I was a kid. I remember as a child, usually after an episode of weeping, I would face these spasms and will also continue mainly through my dream unconsciously or consciously when I am in a very light sleep. I felt it then. It wasn't a nice feeling but it wasn't something that could control physically or emotionally. Yeah, it felt like a bad hip that you can't control and gets worse if the emotional event isn't solved. I think I got over it about when I got older as a kid and when I can better regulate my emotions. Your kids are so lucky to have parents as worried as you are. At that time, when I was a kid, my parents didn't understand it and they left me to get over it. But don't get me wrong, I don't blame them, so people aren't as cunning as we are now. As an adult now I understand what was happening to me. I may not have research studies or back-up information to demonstrate my knowledge of this but at least I will share some information according to my understanding and experience going through this myself. With some background in psychology " child development, I think this phenomenon is a physical, psychological and emotional characteristic of a human being. It's like why we have certain traits or a mole or birthmark. Also as some children cry more while others are more relaxed. Looking back, I feel like it was how I copied like a child after a trigger, usually after weeping from a stressful event. It was a natural body reaction and my health is good. It will disappear, once that episode full of events is dissipated from memory and my emotion stabilizes. Above all it will disappear before with enough love, care " attention. It can be said to be very related to emotional well-being. Don't worry, your children will grow well. Teach them good emotional control and remove this forever. They are the coping skills they need to learn. If I can guess, children with this are simply more emotionally tilted and can be their strength in life or weakness if left unregulated. Anyway, now I'm a father and my baby has this too. Yeah, her heart breaks sometimes to see her child sleep through the night like this. I often say that my baby cries like me, spasms, symptoms similar to apnea are all equal. I can relate to my baby with so many things because I feel his experience. I just need to do it a little different for her than what was done for me last time. More love, hugs, care and attention to calm your emotions because when it happened to me I remembered feeling that they were what I needed most then too. I also kept the trust and my emotional strength that led me to better control. Thanks for sharing, I'm glad you're raising awareness about this. Mel says, thank you so much for taking time to share your thoughts and personal experience with this! ~ Anne Marie Karen says Thanks Anne Marie for your blog – really helpful and I feel relieved. My husband is currently in ApacE (ER) as my son's weeping seems to have given rise to an exciting spasm. I had to work even though I promised to lay down my children, and that pissed my son enough to cry. Sobbing spasm is like in the second video, but my son has just turned 6 and never had it before. Let's hope you have a proper look and I hope it never happens again. Thank you again, from London, England (United Kingdom). He says: Yes, I hope it's a one-time event for being so upset! Thanks for coming, Karen. ~ Anne Marie Georges Zakpa says This happens to our daughter, she's 8 months old now. It happened 4 times, every time I cried long before. The first time we want the ER was 1 month old, we spent 3 days her experience was horrible for her and for us. But after a long list of exams, they found nothing even though they thought it was child spasms. The other three times it happened, we didn't go to the hospital and we decided we didn't want our daughter to go through that again. I was going through and disappearing at night. We gave him Tylenol for 24 hours. It develops quickly, without signs of development problem. We thank the Lord for that. If your child is in the same situation and doctors have ruled out diseases or anomalies that threaten the disease. Just surround your child with love and affection through the episode and do your best to avoid long stages of crying. Nadia Pett says thank you so much for your vision of this. Like you, I'm an eagle in the dark looking at my little 5-month-old boy, making sure it's not an attack. Oh Google – we have a loving relationship of hatred. Seeing the videos you shared, this is exactly the same. The first time this happened was after his 4 months of vaccination, he must have been suffering and wept for a while, then a couple of weeks later he overflowed and wept intensely then when he settled, he looked and gasp panicked. Oh God, I picked it up instantly and started crying. Of course it was established again and smiled, what kind. This time, he has a cold (stifled nose) that must be really bothered by him and cried inconsolably for 1.5 hours. He's settled down but he's made the spasms in his dream. Poor boy. Telesalud wants me to take him to the emergency tomorrow to evaluate him. Waiting for everything is fine. My instinct says it is, but at that time it is ridiculously terrifying!! Thanks for sharing, as much as Google can be the worst place for me to go when I have anxiety, it was the best time. The prayers answered. - Hi, Nadia! If you can, take him to the doctor when he's having one of the episodes. Or get a video to share! Please keep me informed. ~ Anne Marie Nadia Pett says that I took him to the children's emergency this morning, and pediatrician said that sometimes babies manage to cry and this happens. He didn't care about anything. He says: If what you're describing is what happened to my babies, and what you saw in the videos, then he's NOT fixing to cry. I'd be consulting another doctor! Nadia Pett says it only happens after a screaming scream. And then it's the gasps, only once was the scared look and it was about 1 second. Then maybe different. I'm not sure I'm being watched. Marissa says thank you so much for this post He has been a God sent. My daughter has been experiencing this spasm sucking air since she was about 4 months old. It started at night, but then we started to see him sometimes continue when he woke up and sometimes gasped in the air. We've been inside and outside every ER and the doctor's office all that is said to be nothing, maybe the breath of containing spells. Not to reassure at all, since that did not mean what he was doing. At 13 months of age, they sent us to a pulmonologist who said it might be mucus to accumulate and put my daughter in medications to help with allergies and mucus. He only has these episodes every two months, but he's as hard to see as a father. Your post is the first one I've found to really describe what we've been experiencing. My daughter is 14 months old. I had a flu as a baby and now I'll explore if that can be the problem or a milk allergy. Did he have to supplement with other vitamins with his change to non-cow milk? I'm not much of a milk fan, but her doctor pushed her hard at least until she's 2 years old for brain development. I hope it spreads so soon. Again, thank you! You've put my 3am nerves calm. Marissa says, I had to make sure my boys had enough calcium and protein and fat because rice milk doesn't have enough. Canned salmon and white beans and some cereals have a good amount of calcium. For good fats, try avocado, almond butter, coconut, peanut butter and sunflower seeds. And I'm so glad the post has helped relieve some of your anxiety! ~Anne Marie Pa Lee says Boy, is there a lot of answers on this blog! I don't know if you've already found an answer, but I'd like to guess, if anything I'm saying could help somehow... I hope so. Your videos are very scary and worrying and I can understand why you'd worry about this too. It is good that you have stayed to see them breathe, as we never know what really causes SIDs, experts cut it to breathe problems during sleep and be too hot so that the baby can't wake up when needed, (apart from choking on the face in the mattress or the environment.) One question I have is this. Is it the belly of the unattended babies? You mentioned they had allergy to cow's milk. So I guess they had constipation or IG problems. What I'm looking for is the strain, as it's directly related to what I think it might be. I once had a patient who had an intestinal blockage. Her abdomen was so swollen that it was like she was nine months pregnant. And I'd be so scared because I'd have these episodes of when I'd stop breathing for a few seconds and then start breathing and breathing again. This was when I was awake and asleep. No one believed this patient. But I went to his room. I was your nurse at the time. And I saw it myself. The doctor didn't believe, nor did he understand what this man was going through. And I felt very bad about him because I saw the fear in his eyes, and the anguish that was happening. I couldn't help him every second these spasms would hit. But nobody had any idea what was going on or why he was having these breathing problems. I went home to investigate. And I came to the conclusion that his abdomen was so swollen that he pushed his diaphragm. His case is severe, though, and I've never seen such a bad one again. There's a real condition. He just didn't study much. Now the diaphragm is a muscle. And it is directly related to every breath you take and come out. When that diaphragm spasm affects your breathing and can stop your breathing for a few seconds, until it begins to work again. What I think was that his abdomen was so neglected, he was pushing the diaphragm and the diaphragm couldn't work properly. He was pushing so much that the diaphragm could not move up and down and work to bring his lungs inside and outside. lung function depends on the diaphragm muscle to work. A few years after that, I myself had IBS and developed a partial obstruction of my intestine. My abdomen turned so undressed, it looks like I was seven months pregnant. He was also lactose intolerant. That's when I experienced the same horrible agonizing thing. During the day I felt that I had to breathe manually inside and outside as if my lungs were not breathing involuntarily. It was laborious and I had to remember all the time to breathe. During the night I slept and would wake up gasping for the air-I would stop breathing for a few seconds. It was the same thing this man had, to a lesser extent. And I also came up with anxiety, so I thought I had panic attacks. However, having anxiety when you cannot breathe is a completely normal behavior. Not long after that I realized it was the diaphragm. And when I took care of this bowel distended, everything went immediately. Fast forward many years later I experiment something similar to that in my newborn baby. My baby has gone through 10 different formulas for babies. He has a sensitivity to what is in the formulas and could not tolerate most of them.. We finally tried Enfamil ProSobee. Two bottles. That night we went to sleep and heard a dazzling sound of my baby, so I went to check closer. He was having difficulty breathing and there was a little delay in his breathing. I looked and was horrified to see that his stomach had flown like a ball. His breathing was erratic and worrying. We stopped the Prosobee immediately. So yes, problems in the intestinal/abdominal area can cause physical breathing problems when they affect 1.) the space in which the lungs are supposed to expand, or 2.) the diaphragm/muscle that controls the involuntary movement of the lungs breathing. I hope this can clear up your question. He says: These case stories were very interesting to read, and I think the connection you make between extreme pressure on the diaphragm and the subsequent pressure on the lungs is reasonable. I do not remember that my children have some stomach distaste and none of the parents who have commented here have mentioned that symptom, but does not exclude the connection in their case. This seems to be a complex problem with several potential triggers! ~Anne Marie Pa Lee also says, it doesn't have to be a strain that causes the diaphragm to work. The phrenic nerve is what is connected to the diaphragm and controls its contractions that in turn control breathing. Anything that irritates that nerve can cause hypo and anything that damages or affects that nerve can cause breathing problems. I'm thinking this is probably the biggest culprit if it's not due to abdominal strain or anatomical problems with the diaphragm itself. If more than one of your children had it, and it's not because of IG problems, it could be genetic or environmental. In addition, crying is related to diaphragm and are also hypo. When you're crying, you're leaving out a scream and then taking some breaths here and there. The diaphragm's working with that. Hypocs are directly related to diaphragm spasms. Pa Lee says, thank you again for the additional information! I know my boys didn't have any hips. That is something totally different, even if you can share some similarities or involve some of the same body structures. When the phrenic nerve is irritated, it would cause a small intake of air. This is different from what you're seeing in the videos. It is painful and terrifying, and can last 8 or more hours continuously. And after it's over, the person seems to be 100% free of symptoms. I can't talk to other cases, but with my boys, we consulted several specialists and did superior GI scans and respiratory structures, and nothing abnormal was found. In addition, none of our children had any disease or damage to the phrenic nerve, and they overcome this problem while their allergy to milk went away. My belief is that I was primarily related to allergy. I'm going to add a link to information about false nervous irritation to my article, as the symptoms that may trigger share some similarities with this phenomenon. Thank you again! Meg says Hi, your 5am and my son are having the same. Thanks for this blog and keeping it going. The child also has milk allergy and reflux. He's 6 months old and this is the first time this has happened!? He's been busy all day, out and out. I've done that before and you've never done this. His breathing sounds like he just cried and then it sounds like he's smelling through his nose. He masturbates after each other and rubs his nose. Then the same pause and then deep breath. He fell asleep every 2 hours and then went back to sleep. I've raised it and checked the temperature, 98.3, so it's okay. She seemed sweaty, though, so I put lighter clothes. I have a sock of birds and it shows good levels of oxygen. I guess it's wrong to be up all night. I have a video, sound only, I'm not sure how to get to you. After all the allergy, reflux, hypo, flu B... things we've dealt with this is too overwhelming! He says: My 22 months of age have been having these spasms out and forth since he was born. First I noticed them when I was crying (she cried very intensely, and then the spasms of sobbing take a while to calm down). I hate that she receives them also during the night, causing her sleep problems and small breaks to breathe. I've talked to so many different doctors, and none of them have answers. I expected it to start growing, as it really bothers her during the night, but not yet. She coughs and spins all night, too, although that could be just a little boy thing. I have to eat very limited dairy, but I could try to go 100% dairy to see if it helps. Nothing seems to help so far. I have consulted this page many times that it was born by spasms. It's good to know you're not alone! Sabrina says happy to have found this article. New York's first time mom's three months old. I think this is the first time this has happened with my son (on the right of 6:30pm to now, 1:20am) he bleed hysterically for hours and has been doing the chest gaseous for five hours or so. Today I have had milk, eggs, cow products and I have been giving you a German cow-based baby formula for months. Anne Marie – did you change your diet or changed your formula for babies to goat milk and see improvements? Says Hi Sabrina! I cut off all the dairy from my diet and I got sick up to 14 months. When I stayed away from dairy, their symptoms began to disappear. After I finished breastfeeding, I tried goat milk and rice milk. There is also a formula called Kabrita that could consider – Anne Marie Caitlin says This is exactly what my 6.5 month old has done. It is always after a more difficult episode of crying and will even continue to occur after it has been quiet for a while. It's so strange. We have a neurological application next month. I was really hoping to get a true answer but it doesn't sound like we're basing on this and other answers. We caught him on video a couple of times and his is exactly like one of the videos you shared. CR says It's interesting that people find this abnormal. Anyone who knows that she cries more than 5 minutes directly with a hard scream, does this; baby or adult. It's just what the body does. What's not normal is that people would cry hard for more than 5 minutes. Babies are usually rescued by their parents and adults do not usually cry long and hard unless something really hurts them, like someone who breaks their heart. I remember it was happening to me. It's like the heart is trying to calm down from being upset. I used to help in a nursery. Every baby I can remember was crying a lot and hard when they were calming down in their mother's arms. He says, "Hey, CR, if you read the whole post, what happened to my two children is different than what the body naturally does after a hard cry. This phenomenon is definitely not normal. For me, it was a red flag that guaranteed me more attention. Finding and treating milk protein intolerance seemed to fix it and give it relief. Thank you for your comment! ~Anne Marie CR says yes, I read the whole post and I saw videos. Because the process of soothing a baby takes so long, it could be easily looked at while the baby stops crying long ago and yet this hypo happened. I've seen the babies go to sleep right after a hard cry. That hip could continue for half an hour or more while they seem to be sleeping. Or a baby could've stopped crying before Mom came home and thought it wasn't related to crying. Having said this, I dismissed what was said about not only happening with crying, especially because many others linked it with crying too. If what you saw wasn't related to crying, then I guess you saw a problem different from everyone else. One thing is certain... if you think there's a problem, there's a problem. He says, "You're right that for many people he does after episodes of crying, and it could be double breathing. Crying first sometimes happened, but definitely not all the time. In fact, the first episode of my son, Benjamin was after eating and playing and then he fell quietly asleep. And it still seems abnormal to me, and my pediatrician confirmed, that those "children" last up to 8 hours after weep. There are many comments to read through, and those who help shed light, too, but some of the parents there mention that spams don't always happen after weep. And over and over, I'm listening to reflux findings and/or allergies as well. Britney Nicholson says Hi, I'm a 19-year-old girl and base on what you described this is exactly what I have too. I've been investigating this for years and so far your only person I've ever found has been able to describe what I've been going through. I have this problem since I was a baby and I haven't cultivated it yet. My mother and I have visited the doctors waiting for answers, but they have fired him and said he would grow up. Mine has evolved, before it would only happen if I were crying, but it's a random increase in high emotions. Meaning that if I'm laughing so much to the point where tears come out of my eyes I'd come. Just as I could feel very sad about something and then I would come. Thanks for sharing your experience and I'm very happy that your kids could grow up from it. He says: Hi Britney, that's interesting that spasms can also occur only from "high emotion," as you put it. The reason he highlighted me is that crying involves a series of physical processes involving diaphragm, lungs, throat, eyes, etc., so the connection to respiratory spasms makes sense as it involves some of the same structures. But for something in your mind or heart to turn it off is very intriguing. Have you tried any of the breathing exercises mentioned in the post to see if help? – Anne Marie Britney Nicholson says thank you for answering, No, I haven't tried the breathing exercises, but since I have it now, I'm gonna try. Mine tends to last a week or so, depending on the episode that provoked it. My mother assumes it started when I was just born. I was born in a hospital in Jamaica where I was very hot at the time. When my mother realized that she asked the nurse and the nurse answered that she was crying all night and it's nothing to worry about. But as I grew up, I still had it. As you care about your son, my mother was the same. At night he said it was the worst, he said he seemed to be fighting to breathe. When I woke up, I told him I slept well and I didn't know I was. When I'm awake I could feel it. There are times when it is fast and fast and there are other times where it is very long. Those usually hurt my chest. Over the years, it became normal for me. I've got it now. I'm not sure what exactly caused it this time because in the past it would only happen when I cried. But I didn't cry at all for the last two days. However, the only thing I could think of could have triggered was that my period was coming and I felt very emotional. That led me to investigate it again and I found your blog. I'm getting close to adulthood and I really want her to leave. It's a very remarkable sound I make, so people tend to look at me if I'm in school or in a public place. I don't have control over him or feel when it's about to happen. says: Thank you again for sharing your story, and please keep my update on progress! Rose says, "Hey. Your Benjamin documentation sounds exactly like my son (now a year old and still doing this). It also has severe reflux and separation anxiety. I've been breastfeeding, but I've removed the dairy. When I don't realize he has anything with dairy, he suffers. I pray you'll excel all this. It's pretty scary, especially the "gasps". It might be worth mentioning that he was at ICU at birth (last term) for "fluid" in his lungs. This has not yet understood or diagnosed. Pediatra has seen several videos and originally called the "hypo" episodes, I do not and do not accept the answer so here we are undiagnosed. It seems much worse after weep, but it also happens in your dream. Break the heart, scare and mom's exhausted with 2 minus 2. Lisa says Hi, your blog is the only thing on the entire web that is similar to my daughter. He's been having gaseous episodes in the last two days with 5-6 at a time, especially when he's getting fired or he's waking up even though it was today when he was awake. We went to the hospital yesterday to have them look at us for probably telling them about toothache. To monitor and video but if you have one that lasts more than 20mins to return. The gasps are exactly like the published videos and are very terrifying. She's been in formula for a while and it's 7 months now, she's out of solid food due to teeth recently. To the loss of what to do Says, Lisa, I'd definitely get a video and show the doctor. Also, maybe ask about possible allergies? – Anne Marie Anne says Hello, thank you for this blog. I've been comforted since my daughter started having these episodes when she was 10 weeks old. It first occurred when she received vaccines, and has been triggered mainly by episodes of crying. He's 20 weeks now. I've removed the dairy from my diet 3 weeks ago and had a couple of very mild and short episodes since then. We also have an EEG to check for children's spasms and I'm waiting for the results. Jamuna karki says hello Anne My child who is 3.2 years old now still having respiratory problems occasionally triggers by hard crying. It usually happens in deep sleep if I cried hard before sleeping or during the day. He started having this problem when he was 5 months old, the problem is the same. . Breathe deeply, pause your breath for a few seconds and start having this spasm. At some point without crying, my baby is also taken while sleeping. I noticed that he had this breathing spasm if he was disturbed by loud noise, sneezed as if he was scared of that noise. But if I woke him up while he had this spasm and let him wake up for some time he goes if he doesn't continue all night.. It's been almost 3 years trying to figure out her cause, but it failed. I've visited so many Paediarticians all said it was normal and he's going to himself at 3 years, but my son hasn't gone mad so I'm worried. A few months ago I took him to Gastroenterologist and suggested junior lanzol as it could be Reflux but the problem is the same. Again I took him to a ENT specialist who responded is the case of adeniod problem without any XRay and another examination. He suggested waiting until he becomes 5. This problem can go in itself without the removal of adeniod. I wonder if this is the adenoid problem why it happens mostly if I cried hard and occasionally it is once in 15 to 20 days why not on regular basis. There's only one allergy test left to do what I'm planning to go once covid 19 Lockdwn arrives in my country... Tired of seeing the baby in trouble. That's so terrifying.. Did any of the children completely overcome this problem after the correct diagonsis and medications? Please help... Jamuna karki says Video of my baby breathing spasms Jamuna says, it hurts to know how you keep trying to get answers after 3 years. That's a lot of waiting and worrying! My son DID got over this problem and he's not back. I think this seems to be the experience of most parents. I've heard of just a few adults and teenagers who are still dealing with him, and are able to use relaxation and breathing exercises to calm him down. ~ Anne Marie Jamuna karki says thank you Anne. Your blog comments are my only ray of hope. . I still hope someone comes with the solution here.. Emily P says My daughter has a milk allergy and is 10 weeks old and has been in the Alimentum formula for more than a month and still does this. It sounds like what you do after a hard cry, "double breathing" mixed with a hip and scares her to wake up every time she does. So she can never fall asleep. He'll be scared and spit the binky. As soon as I return binky to her mouth, she falls into a deep sleep. It's very frustrating and terrifying. I have to sit next to her all the time she's sleeping to keep putting binky back in her mouth so she can go back to sleep. Marie says this sounds like gaseous syndrome. Gaseous syndrome is a side effect of benzyl alcohol. This is in the shot of vitamin K giving directly after birth. Amanda says I just found this blog while I was investigating the symptoms of my children. He does the same breathing. I've already realized that he has an allergy to the protein of cow milk and has just changed it to nutramigen. Thanks for sharing. Carolyn says My 7-year class does double breathing but has not been crying at all. Start doing it. Longer than about 11 minutes. Lately every few days and more towards the early morning. He's got abnormal eegs and seizures so he's getting a 48-hour eeg to actually collect these on the test. I'm not sure if this is a seizure for him or a sleep apnea. The neurologist has no idea what they are on earth. It also has eye clamps and the eye bearing with these and the area around the eyebrow clamps. His arm is also masturbated. Diana says My son experienced this in his 2-month check after receiving his vaccines. He started in the car at home " , we actually had to turn around so he could bring him back to the doctors so he could take a look. The doctor said it was probably so hard to cry " his acid reflux. He said the acid probably came from the lie screaming crying crying. It lasted about 24 hours ate normal " slept normal but as you said I didn't do it that night. It's about to be 12 weeks " just happened again after a bad cry because he was lying flat. I'm so mad at myself, but I couldn't pick it up so fast when it happened. I was wondering if I could do anything to help you get over it faster. because it hurts more than he does. The doctor recommended keeping it straight as much as possible to help with acid. I also wanted to tell you that by writing about this because it has calmed me so much to know that I am not alone in this. She says, "Hello, Diana, I never found anything that could relieve spasms or make them leave before. But I've heard that older children and adults can try certain breathing exercises to relax. - Anne Marie Emily says I'm so glad I found this post. I've researched all over the Internet and this blog is the only thing I've ever found coming. My son is 7 months old and still has episodes of hip spasms. They only happen after a hard cry so I try not to let him cry if I can help him. The longest episode of hip spasms lasted 10 hours. I feel so bad for him and it makes me cry. I haven't slept training him yet because I'm afraid to let you cry because I know he's gonna get the hip every time and I can't handle it having every day since they last so long :-(. Blake Larkowski says thank you. My son is 10 months old and this is the answer I have finally been able to find. We have gone to the specialists, to the ERs, and we have spent so much time in pure panic with their breathing episodes. I am so happy to see that other babies have had similar problems and I feel relieved just to know that my thoughts were in line with your theories. I could cry. Thank you for this article! She says I'm so happy, Blake! That's exactly why I finally decide to write this article! ~Anne Marie Wes McDavid says February, 2021 My daughter's been having similar things. The worst is facial spasm, very similar to the second video in this post. His face spits involuntarily and seems to lose his breath. Every time it has been triggered by severe crying. This is what it looks like. We have been at the ER, seen our pediatrician several times, a virtual visit with ENT and two neurologists. She ended up getting an EEG to make sure there was no seizure activity or cerebral wave arrhythmias. Oh man, sticking the electrodes in a 4-month-old is tearing. At least he re-activated spasms and we have to register his brain activity during his symptoms. Very happy to say that the results returned normal. The best answer they had for us was Weird Baby Stuff. Apparently, the doctors hadn't seen anything like that before. They asked if they could keep our video to learn from him. Very interesting. What the hell it is. Wes McDavid says ps. It is currently in acid reflux medications, and may have a protein sensitivity of milk as well. Reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment Name * Email * Website Notify me of follow-up comments by email This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Welcome! Friends and sponsorsPopular Posts Search my blog:We are Blogging About:My PartnershipsCopyright © 2021 · Copyright Design © 2021 · · · · ·

Accessibility links Search results Web results Breathing spasms after weeping? — BumpSimilar to hip after weep? — The BumpPeople also asks for results on WebHiccups after cry - soon you need your entry! — BumpZantac's babies — BumpRepetitive "gasping"/startled sound while sleeping — BumpHiccups after eating or even after crying? — Baby BumpLong Fussy, time for witches, crying, reflux — BumpDo you love your DC or just tolerate? — Bump - Pregnancy... Is this normal? — Bump — Bump — Are you just tolerated? The BumpGuilt for putting a baby crying in the swing - The BumpRelated searcheswhy do baby snifflestwitchinghyperventilating during the scream outgasp while the lack of breathwhy makes misound as if it were without your breath of drowsiness withoutPage navigation1 Foot links

Sobbing Spasms, Gasping, and Prolonged "Hiccups" in Babies - Zephyr Hill

Sobbing Spasms, Gasping, and Prolonged "Hiccups" in Babies - Zephyr Hill

Sobbing Spasms, Gasping, and Prolonged "Hiccups" in Babies - Zephyr Hill

Baby Cries: What Your Baby Is Trying to Tell You | Mama Natural

How to Know When Your Baby Is Hungry

Baby Crying After Feeding: What Should You Do? - Mom Loves Best

Why Is It so Difficult to Breathe After a Long Cry? - Brain Worship

Overtired Baby: What You Need To Know | The Baby Sleep Site

Why my newborn is crying and how to tell whether it's normal

Hiccups in a newborn could mean their brains are developing say researchers

Newborn Sneezing: Is It a Cold or Something Else?

Vomiting in babies: what's normal and what's not - BabyCentre UK

Colic in Breastfed Babies: Symptoms and How to Help

Crying After Feeding | Ask Dr Sears

Baby Sneezing: Causes, Signs and When to Worry

Newborn hiccups: How to get rid of baby hiccups | BabyCenter

Breathing spasms after crying? — The Bump

Why Is It so Difficult to Breathe After a Long Cry? - Brain Worship

Colic in Babies: Symptoms, Treatment, and Frequently Asked Questions

How to get rid of baby hiccups—and prevent them

How to Get Rid of Newborn Hiccups | Parents

7 Reasons Your Child May Be Crying

Newborn & Baby Hiccups: Causes and Cures

What is Colic in Babies? | Parents

Why do people do a little 'stutter breath' a few minutes after they stop crying? - Quora

Why You Shouldn't Tell Kids to Stop Crying | Sleeping Should Be Easy

No one mentioned reflux - Little Ones

Awesome baby nursery detail are readily available on our website. Read more and you will not be sorry you did. #baby… | Baby wont stop crying, Baby crying, Baby ads

Signs of Acid Reflux in Infants and Symptoms of GERD in Babies – Happiest Baby

Why Is It so Difficult to Breathe After a Long Cry? - Brain Worship

Why the hiccups help a baby learn to breathe more easily | News | The Times

Hiccups, sneezing and breathing noises - Baby hiccups - Baby sneezing

Pin on Parenting tips

The Cure for Newborn Hiccups

Get Rid of Baby Hiccups (A Simple Guide) - Baby Schooling

Baby talk: What your baby is trying to tell you

Baby Arching Back and Crying - Causes and Solutions

How to stop baby hiccups? Causes and Prevention | Pampers

Crying Baby: 11 Reasons Why Babies Cry and What to Do

When Baby Cries Too Much - Reflux 101