Scary night

Superchicy

DD woke up at 2:30, no big deal, I held her for a minute, gave her back her paci, and put her back to bed.  She was fine and I fell asleep.  20 minutes later I hear her crying, get to her room and she is pretty much hyperventilating like she can't breathe, short quick breaths.  I pick her up, she isn't choking or anything, just breathing in really short and quick.  I of course freak and call DH and in the longest 30 seconds of my life, I stand there holding her trying to figure out what is going on.

Thankfully she slowly starts to breathe slower, a combination of the short breaths, hiccups, and regular breaths and over the next few minutes her breathing goes back to normal.  I have no idea what happened. She's never had that happen before and it's not like she was choking or had been crying really hard.  I held her for about 45 minutes hoping she would just sleep on me, but she wanted to lay down so I laid her down and stared at the monitor for the next hour.   She's totally fine this morning like nothing happened.  Anyone have any ideas what could have caused that?

Emily2me

This exact same thing happened to my DS last week, around 5am. All of the sudden he just started with very short quick breaths. He sleeps in the bed with us, so I noticed it right away. It continued for at least a minute, even after I woke him up. I was absolutely freaking out, but it stopped and he seemed completely normal. It was kind of like he couldn't catch his breath, or what would happen if he had been crying for a really long time, but he hadn't. We kept him awake for a couple of hours and I watched him like a hawk after he fell back asleep. Nothing has happened since, but it was definitely scary.

johnandkristin

Awe. That is scary. I'm glad she's okay. Could it have been a night terror? Just really scared her or something?

Superchicy

johnandkristin:

Awe. That is scary. I'm glad she's okay. Could it have been a night terror? Just really scared her or something?

I thought about that, but she had been up just 20 minutes before and I'd been in to check on her.  If she'd fallen asleep she couldn't have been asleep for more than 10 or 15 minutes.  Maybe she did get really scared by something though. 

ETA: she did a good job of scaring the crap out of us though last night!  Not sure how I'm going to sleep tonight worrying she'll do that to us again.

adamsbabble

I don't know if I'm on the right track with this or not, but does she have seasonal allergies (or do you have a family history of allergies/asthma)?  I do, and it really gets me this time of year.  Sometimes when it's really bad, I have shortness of breath and I've woken from my sleep feeling like I was fighting for breath.

Superchicy

adamsbabble:

I don't know if I'm on the right track with this or not, but does she have seasonal allergies (or do you have a family history of allergies/asthma)?  I do, and it really gets me this time of year.  Sometimes when it's really bad, I have shortness of breath and I've woken from my sleep feeling like I was fighting for breath.

I do think she has seasonal allergies.  She isn't showing much in the way of symptoms right now, but I've given her benadryl in the past for what looked like allergies.  She's sneezing a bit but that's it now, maybe she did get stuffed up really bad in her sleep. 

curlypie1

Oh wow, that is scary. If it happens again, I would surely take her in to her pedi. I hope it was just a one time thing.

Lucky_N_Love

Oh no I am so sorry. I can't imagine  how scary that would have been. No clue what could have caused that unless she is/has been sick and her lungs are out of whack. Hope this doesn't happen again.

Ttimes3

Wow, that is scary. Poor thing, I bet it scared both of you. I hope everything is okay!