Apnea & Caffine

AutumnsMom1204

My DD is on an apnea montior (for apnea & low heartrate) & is also getting caffine daily. Just wondering how many other Moms had experience with this & how long it took before the little one was off of both....

kcswifey

Congrats on the birth of your beautiful daughter!  My son was born at 28 weeks and came home after 70 days in the NICU on caffeine and a monitor.  In the beginning he would have several bradys related to feeding.  He just stopped taking the caffeine last week and they are coming to pick up his monitor today!  He has been home almost 2 months.  I hope that helps!

NotJustAnAuntie

DS got caffeine pretty regularly for the first month or so, and as he outgrew the apnea spells, he didn't need it anymore.

 

gymrat

My kids were on both for awhile - probably 4-6 wks.

CONGRATS!!

RubyRed7

We stopped the caffeine about 6 weeks adjusted age, and the monitor one month later, but we weren't usuing much at that point.

mcdev

My experience has been that they allowed the girls to outgrow their caffeine dosage, but kept the apnea monitor until there were two downloads with no apnea episodes.

KLyn

my boys just came home on monitors two days ago and we are hoping to have them off at 8 weeks... ?i feel your pain...

AutumnsMom1204

The monitor really isn't too horrible. Thankfully my DD has been doing very well with it. I think the worst part is in the middle of the night trying to change her diaper without getting her little legs caught up in the wires! In a way I can't wait to get her off of it, but at the same time I like having it to know if she is having an episode. We go for our first visit to the pulmonologist on the 23rd. I'm hoping for good news.  Are your boys on medication as well?