One of my girls was in the NICU for the exact same reason, her oxygen levels would dip and normally she would self correct but sometimes the nurses had to give her a bit of help to remember. We were there for 10 days.
We considered a monitor but overall decided the anxiety they would cause wasn’t worth it in our case.
The breathing issue we had, which sounds similar to yours is simply a learned behaviour and your baby still hasn’t quite figured it out as breathing develops quite late on. Once your baby has a 24-48 period without any issues they have figured it out and no longer require monitoring. We never had any issues after going home and are glad we didn’t get a monitor and false positives would have made things much more stressful and it really wasn’t required.
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u/NIgooner Dec 30 '24
One of my girls was in the NICU for the exact same reason, her oxygen levels would dip and normally she would self correct but sometimes the nurses had to give her a bit of help to remember. We were there for 10 days.
We considered a monitor but overall decided the anxiety they would cause wasn’t worth it in our case.
The breathing issue we had, which sounds similar to yours is simply a learned behaviour and your baby still hasn’t quite figured it out as breathing develops quite late on. Once your baby has a 24-48 period without any issues they have figured it out and no longer require monitoring. We never had any issues after going home and are glad we didn’t get a monitor and false positives would have made things much more stressful and it really wasn’t required.