Scared the life out of me

My DS is in special care as is is a premmie (born at 31 weeks 4 days now 36 weeks and 2 days) and I have been working on getting him bottle feeding my breast milk.
He has the odd oxygen desaturation every now and then but this evening at his 6pm feed I was just settling him in for a feed and put the bottle in for less than 30 seconds and he started to desat so I took the bottle out but he got worse and turned blue cos he wasn't breathing. It scared the life out of me and the nurses had to come take him and try to get him going and in the end he needed oxygen waved in front of his nose to get him to pick up.
I was terrified!!!!!!!!!!!! I am still shakey and very much on edge
It was only this morning that the doctor told me they were looking at sending him home within the next 2 weeks but I seriously doubt that will happen now.
He's been taken off bottle feeds for now and only being fed through the nasal gastric tube. I feel like we have gone so well and taken so many steps forward and now taken a massive leap backwards.
I am glad he was in hospital when it happened and not at home but its still been very hard to see it and have to watch my boy now breathing

:hug: hun... must be so so hard for you.. couldn't read and not post... :hug: :hug: :hug:

Hoping it's all up hill from here for you hun! That would have been scary! :hug:

Oh gosh how scary :hug: hoping your bubba is home with you soon, happy and healthy :hug:

Hugs hun that much have been very scary for you to witness.

I hope he is home with you soon, he is in the best possible hands. Unfortunatly with prems it is often forward and backwards.

xoxo

how scary :hug: hope it's the last time it happens :hug:

oh hun, couldn't see this and not offer you my support :hug:

:hug: I can totally relate to how scary that is :hug: Both my boys did that to me, DS1 while in NICU/SCN and DS2 once at home. It really is a one step forward one step back journey.

All the best for the coming weeks x I hope he is home with you soon and definitely in time for Christmas x

oh hun, that is the most frightening feeling. GBH. Try not to dispare about going back to nasal feeds, just give his body a little bit of rest, you know he can bottle feed now, its not a step back, he's just having a little break for now. Have they tried finger/glove feeds with him before?


hope the rest of your journey though SCN is totally uneventful and he's home for christmas xx

:hug: I know just how scary that would have been for you as I watched my Ds2 do the same thing. It really is terrifying. I hope your little man is ok now and hope you are doing ok too

Thanks for all the support I really appreciate it!!
He's doing really well now but we r taking it easy with him
I saw the doctors this morning and they said they were happy for him to go back on bottles as he was really looking for them and they need to see it keeps happening as they will need to investigate. So far so good it looks like he just choked and has had a really good day. So I am hoping things keep going well and he can come home when he is ready

How frightening :hug: I hope your little boy is home soon with you in time for Christmas. xx

that would have been terrifying ... thank goodness that there were people on site to help!

know that we're :pray: for you and your family, that DS will improve quickly and completely to the point that you *can* take him home in the next 2 weeks, and not have to come back for a very long time ... maybe when he's about to become a father, or a big brother or something ...

you're doing a great job. don't lose heart. what he needs is his mummy, and that's exactly what you're giving him, Kat. well done.

:grouphug:

That would have been so scary. :hug: :hug:

How terrifying for you :hug: Hope your little man is back to guzzling his bottles before you know it.

Oh, how terrifying for you. I hope that you little bubba goes from strength to strenth from now on xoxoxox