choking!

nowayamyrae

Last night I was eating cheese and crackers, relaxing with the hubby, and I started choking. Full on, can't get any air choking (I think I inhaled some crumbs). I freaked out and just threw my hands up above my head and managed to gasp enough to start coughing but my husband was FREAKING OUT and screaming that he couldn't give me the heimlich because of the baby. Eventually I coughed (and threw up from it!) enough that I was back to normal but it was totally scary.

I found him a link on how to perform the HM on a pregnant woman, but he's kindly asked me not to choke again for about 8 weeks, if I can manage.  

ccmarinho

I don't know if maybe choking is a pregnancy thing, but I have choked several times since being pregnant! And I've never choked before in my life! I'm not really sure what's going on in there lol. I'm glad you are okay!!

ashleah83

I've inhaled my food a bunch too since being pregnant but never quite that bad.  Sounds so scary.  I'm glad you mentioned it because I will definitely look up preggo HM so we can both learn it.

calgal1683

How scary! Not really related to your story but we were in Disneyland a couple years ago eating at a Mexican restaurant and a little boy(maybe 3 or so) started choking on a chip. They tried the heimlich but it didn't work, so the dad stuck his finger down his throat to make him throw up. It was really scary and the mom was freaking out! Now I am always scared that DS will start choking on something.

CarlaAndJames

In our infant CPR class Saturday they were going over the HM, and explained that obviously you couldn't do it the normal way for pregnant women. I never would have thought about it. Glad you're okay!

Turtle143

ccmarinho:

I don't know if maybe choking is a pregnancy thing, but I have choked several times since being pregnant! And I've never choked before in my life! I'm not really sure what's going on in there lol. I'm glad you are okay!!

This!! And i also don't usually choke on my food like that! In fact I almost just choked on my food during breakfast. Ughh!

62406

I've also been choking more lately.  The last week it's probably happened 4-5 times, sometimes it's water and other times it's small pieces of food.  I've been able to cough it up which then DH yells at me and tells me it's not good for the day to cough like that.  It must be some weird pregnancy related thing.