Why does my newborn choke and turn blue at every feeding?

Question

My baby is 13 days old today and I am finding that feeding her is becoming more stressful and scary than it should be. She is bottle fed with expressed breastmilk and supplements of Enfamil Gentle Ease formula as suggested by her doctor a few days ago. Every time I feed her, she ends up choking and some times she turns blue and scares me half to death. Some times she chokes and clears her throat just fine but often times I have to kind of snap her out of her relaxed state, lay her down and slap the bottom of her foot, which makes her "wake up" so to speak and start breathing again. I am using SLOW flow nipples and it isn't helping. I didn't have this problem with my first child. My in-laws are too skiddish to try to feed her because of this. Are these very short stints without fresh air doing damage to her brain? She is making me so paranoid!

Answer 1

 My 2 month old  grandson that lives with me also does the same thing! The doctor told my daughter and I to use little noeses saline drops in each side and use the nose sucker ( 1 good squirt !!! about 4 bucks at wal-mart or any drug store)! by spraying in one side and capping it off with the tip of your finger at the same time as you suck from the other side and then doing the same on the other side!! plus suck out his mouth too!! Babies are nose breathers only and so when their passage ways get clogged with mucus and milk it chokes them!!! She also said alot don't recommend that you use rice cereal so soon! But she does in cases like this and said that we can start out with a  a 1/2 teaspoon  to 1 teaspoon per oz of milk and but only use rice!!! We started out using the teaspoon per oz of milk and he dropped down from eating 6oz of reg milk to 4 oz of cereal bottles ever 4 hrs when he was just 2 weeks old !!! The bottle still flows easy enough to use the size 1 nipples for starters!!!! He is now 2 months old today and is doing alot better!!! This has worked wonders for us!! But always talk to you doctor first!!! But know that every doctor is not the same and you may have to shop around to you find one that fits you and your fam! Plus if your on any government program you will prob need the doctor to sign papers stating that you need your cereal now!! I hope this helps!!! If it saves even 1 fam from going through what we did than I am glad I posted!!!

Answer 2

after feeding 7 wk, he acted like he couldn't catch breath and turned a little blue. what do i do?