At night, her breathing became very loud, and the mom soon feared that her newborn had something worse than a cold. It turns out that this normal form of stuffiness is caused by the hormone estrogen, which stimulates the nasal passages; a mother passes it to her baby in utero and while breastfeeding. You may have felt similarly stuffed up while pregnant.
This condition generally subsides within two months, whether your baby is breastfed or formula-fed. And by 6 months, when a baby's nasal passages have doubled in size, stuffiness is hardly noticeable, if it's there at all. Go to the emergency room if your child is flaring their nostrils as they breathe it means that this is their only way to open the passageway for air , or if their chest or tummy is pulling in. These are signs of respiratory distress. The parents of a 6-week-old boy came to the emergency room after he woke one morning with a warm red lump on his chest, directly under his right nipple.
Here, too, estrogen was the cause. As the level of maternal estrogen falls in the baby, the milk-producing hormone prolactin temporarily increases and can cause breast growth.
In fact, at least 50 percent of healthy newborn boys and girls experience this, often on just one side. Five percent of newborn boys will even produce a milk-like substance known as "witch's milk"—and that's exactly what happened in this case and explains why the lump grew so quickly. The enlargement usually goes away within the first month, but it can last for three months or longer.
If the breast appears red, seems tender, or if your baby has a fever, see your pediatrician to determine whether there's an infection. Also, while breast-tissue development is extremely common in newborns and during puberty even in boys , this could indicate a hormonal problem if it happens at other times. One anxious couple brought their 5-month-old son to my emergency room when he had streaks of blood in his spit-up after breastfeeding. They feared he'd had a bad reaction to the milk or even internal bleeding.
But bloody spit-up is almost never worrisome in a baby who is acting normally. It's either swallowed from the mother's sore nipples or due to a small tear in the esophagus caused by forceful spitting up.
Neither condition is anything to worry about; even a small esophageal tear will heal easily. This particular mom confirmed that she did have cracked nipples—thanks to her baby's newly erupted teeth—and they were the source of the blood.
If your infant appears ill, vomits a large amount of blood, spits up blood after a formula feeding, or projectile vomits, see a doctor immediately. Sometimes though, this action can be startling to parents as their baby appears to be jerking in a way that is unlike any other movement they've seen.
Whitney Casares explains. I now vaguely remember my college psychology professor explaining how our bodies and minds react to the process of falling asleep, so it makes total sense that a baby would experience this same phenomenon. Schneeberg explains that your baby's experience is "similar to the way you might wake up sometimes just after falling asleep thinking that you are falling or have tripped.
But, most of the time, we have hypnic jerks, too, and don't wake up. But what about when a baby does wake up after you notice the jerking? If you suspect one of these reasons for your baby's twitchy or shaky behavior, don't hesitate to seek out medical help.
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