Thinking about doing some snowshoeing up in the snowies this weekend. Is there enough snow to warrant that? We were snowshoeing into mid June last year but obviously this was a very different winter. just wondering if anyone had been up there that can share some on conditions. Thanks!
We took our two month old out on a short hike (~3 miles) yesterday and despite having him in footies and a hat, the sliver of skin under his eyes that was exposed from his carrier ended up getting sunburned. For anyone that brings their babies out, how are y’all keeping them protected from the sun? Keeping in mind sunscreen isn’t recommended until 6 months and he can’t hold his head up yet meaning he’s in a chest carrier.
We took our son (~2 month old) to the ER last week.
During one of his changes/feeds around 1 am, I noticed he wasn’t waking up on the changing table like normal and was making more of a whine sound rather than the typical cry he would get to during a change. When we tried to feed he was uninterested and was asleep again almost immediately (IMO he never really woke up). This was repeated around 4 am for his next feed/change and again around 6, and from what I could tell he never fully woke up from around 1 am to 8 am.
We took him in, doctor said he wasn’t acting medically “lethargic” but was definitely sleepier than a normal baby would be. He became more alert that afternoon but we were admitted for observation after blood tests all came back relatively normal.
He slept like an absolute rock in the hospital. He’s normally a lite sleeper and requires some pretty ridiculous conditions to go down in his bassinet (sleep sack and mattress warmed by a heating pad) but despite the absence of that he was out. He didn’t wake up when nurses came in to adjust his pulse ox or take vitals and we had to wake him up to feed.
Throughout the night his O2 would regularly dip into the upper 70’s/low 80’s and then immediately jump back into the 90’s. The dip was brief enough that the overnight staff thought the pulse ox was bad and changed it like 4 different times with no better results. When the day shift nurse came in they decided to put him on a low O2 stream just to check, and he perked up almost immediately after that.
The working theory is that he is aspirating on reflux overnight and dipping in O2 saturation when that happen causing him to be more “out of it”. However, nurses and doctors didn’t seem sure that was the answer. We are now home on a continuous low-does O2 stream and his wake windows are perfectly normal energy-wise. However, he is still sleeping like a rock at night and needs to be woken up to feed which was not the case prior to this all occurring. Also, the whiney not-quite-cry is still present at times.
Now that story time is over, some questions: has anyone experienced something like this? Could the nighttime fatigue and change in cry be developmental and just happened to align with discovering an oxygen deficiency? Would low O2 saturation really present like this? I will note that we live at ~7200 ft in elevation and it is not uncommon for babies to need oxygen here (although it is typically a newborn thing not a later-onset situation).
Very interested in opinions here. We have an appt with a pediatric GI scheduled to discuss the reflux. He’s better, but I still don’t feel like he’s the same as he was a week ago.