http://blogs.babiesonline.com/health/laryngomalacia/ News & Information about parenting, pregnancy, and Babies Online's services Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:08:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://blogs.babiesonline.com/health/laryngomalacia/#comment-7026 Laurie Mon, 26 May 2008 00:17:40 +0000 http://blogs.babiesonline.com/2008/01/21/laryngomalacia/#comment-7026 From the moment my daughter was born she had "noisy" breathing. Luckily our pediatrician immediatley recognized the sound and made the diaganosis. Unfortunatly she had a quite severe case and was hospitalized when she was seven days old. We spent 3 days in the NICU trying to control the respiratory distress. By the time she was a month old she had not gained a single pound and we were referred to Children's Hospital Boston where she underwent surgery to allow the airway to open. We spent another week in the NICU. The surgery seemd to have been successful, but 10 days post-op the stridor and retractions returned and we headed to Boston again for a second surgery. Thankfully the second surgery was a success because we were told a trech tube was our next resort. After the second surgery she began gaining weight (with the help of the highest caloric diet possible) and the stridor and retractions were minimal. She is now 20 months old and healthy. We sometimes still hear the stridor when she is tired or has been running around for too long. We are so thankful for our doctors and technology because without either she may have literally wasted away. From the moment my daughter was born she had “noisy” breathing. Luckily our pediatrician immediatley recognized the sound and made the diaganosis. Unfortunatly she had a quite severe case and was hospitalized when she was seven days old. We spent 3 days in the NICU trying to control the respiratory distress. By the time she was a month old she had not gained a single pound and we were referred to Children’s Hospital Boston where she underwent surgery to allow the airway to open. We spent another week in the NICU. The surgery seemd to have been successful, but 10 days post-op the stridor and retractions returned and we headed to Boston again for a second surgery. Thankfully the second surgery was a success because we were told a trech tube was our next resort. After the second surgery she began gaining weight (with the help of the highest caloric diet possible) and the stridor and retractions were minimal. She is now 20 months old and healthy. We sometimes still hear the stridor when she is tired or has been running around for too long. We are so thankful for our doctors and technology because without either she may have literally wasted away.

]]> http://blogs.babiesonline.com/health/laryngomalacia/#comment-4034 tammy Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:29:07 +0000 http://blogs.babiesonline.com/2008/01/21/laryngomalacia/#comment-4034 My son was 2.5 months old when he was diagnosed with this and no one knew why is was retracting so bad and finaly someone told me. I was the same way knowing it was not asthma My son was 2.5 months old when he was diagnosed with this and no one knew why is was retracting so bad and finaly someone told me. I was the same way knowing it was not asthma

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