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When my LO was ~4mos I was carrying her in one arm & had the recycle bin in the other to take out to the big bin in the garage. She jerked & started falling backwards & I could not catch her & she did a back flip, falling right on her face on the concrete floor. I dropped the recycling all over the floor to scoop her up & rushed her into the house. I laid her down on the couch to check her eyes, ears, skull & limbs. She cried, but not that badly & not for very long, but I was terrified of a brain injury. I called her Dr & we took her there to get checked out, but all seemed ok. I still cannot forgive myself for that & hated to think what terrible injuries she could've sustained. I haven't been back out to the garage with her & am much more careful holding her.

Reading all these is painful, but is helpful to *hopefully* avoid some of the same things happening.

I took F to the doctor when she was about 30 months old for a presumed UTI. They had to cath her for the urine sample, which was traumatic, and her results came back with no leukesterase or bacteria, but really high glucose. They had to start an IV and get labs. All of her labs were normal. We were so perplexed. We still had to wait on her A1c results, so they sent us home with a glucometer and a urine bag. Her sugars were normal over the next 24 hours and her bagged urine sample came back with bacteria and leuks. Her A1c also came back normal. Our provider consulted with peds endocrinology and they said it was either lab error or some transient glycosuria.
I was pretty terrified she was diabetic though. I had really poorly controlled GD when I was pregnant with her.

My LO liked to hold food in his mouth while teething from about 12-15 months , I tried to be diligent about digging it all out before he went to sleep but one night I was asleep with him in our guest bedroom (he was having difficulty falling asleep. I would usually lay down with him until he fell asleep and then transfer him to his crib ) and I snapped awake and knew something was wrong. LO was stiff and not breathing and it was a long moment where I turned him over and hit his back a few times and he started to finally cry. The only reason we and our pediatrician could come up with is the food in his mouth fell and obstructed his airway. You better believe I was hyper viligent about checking for food and we Co slept for another month before I let him sleep alone .

DS had this crying spell since he was a baby that if he is super upset/crying intensely, he would hold his breath until he turns purple. He always breathe on his own after a while. When he was a bit older (2?) it got worse. One time he cried, turned purple and held his breath for a long time, his eyes rolled back, body went limp, and passed out. Oh my god I was by myself and I freaked out. I forgot all about cpr and the only thing i remembered was to put him on a hard surface, which was the floor. Luckily he somehow started breathing on his own as I laid him on the floor. Thankfully he seemed to have outgrew it.

The second one I wasn't scared at the moment but afterwards I am still scared up til this date. I was in labor and was laying there with all the machines plugged in. Suddenly the alarm went off. The nurse came in and the midwife came in. They didn't say anything but you can see the baby's heart rate was dropping and triggering the alarm. They all look very serious and the midwife put her hands in me to try to reposition the baby. After a while the heart rate came back to normal. This may have happened two times as I waited for delivery. After LO was delivered they said the embilical cord wrapped around his neck for 4 times.