Oxygen & car seat question.
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Could the harnessing be too tight and making it hard for her to breathe? Is the recline angle too much or not enough? If she meets the minimum requirements to forward face, you could forward face her until she's better then switch back to rear facing. Being young and forward facing is safer than not being in a car seat at all
@Annika forward facing! I don’t have any pics of her in it :( but we just looked and it can’t be adjusted which is weird.
@Charlotte we checked the harnessing and it was perfect, her seat can’t be adjusted unfortunately so not much we can change there. Aghhhhhh. Also she is forward facing
@Darian what carseat do you have?
@Annika I think it’s a safety 1st grow and go but we tried tipping it back and everything and it just won’t
@Annika like it LOOKS like it should adjust but we cannot figure it out
@Darian i found the manual online and there's a little lever in the front under the seat to pull out adjust. You can have it on setting one or two while forward facing, 2 will have it be semi reclined as it says on the manual. If she hasn't maxed out the rear facing requirements for the seat (40lbs and/or 40in), you could turn her back around and put it on setting 3 to see if leaning back would be better for her to breathe. Any of these could be good safe options if you need to take her somewhere! But I'd probably try and keep the time in her carseat low while she's regaining lung strength.
@Annika omg you’re the best thank you. We will flip her back around for the time being and hopefully that helps.
@Annika it happened earlier when she got mad too 😐
@Darian keep me updated if it helps or not! It probably will happen for a little bit when she's trying to exert a lot of oxygen 😩 not the same, but my boys hold their breath when they cry and their lips turn blue almost every time 😅 it freaks me out so bad 😅
@Annika I just hope it goes away soon it’s so scary :/
@Darian hopefully she'll get better soon with medicine! Are they having her do any breathing treatments too?
@Darian it could be more to here getting frustrated and breathing differently rather than the car seat. Her body is already under stress. Help/let her calm down, keep an eye on her and make sure all goes back to normal. But if you've ever had the breathless feeling when you've been really upset it's like that.
I'm glad you got a resolution for the car seat, please don't hold her in the back with no car seat, you're no help to her if you get in trouble! And we don't want anything to happen to you both. I hope you can find a good position in the car seat that keeps her breathing stable. Lots of love 💕
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@Elizabeth minus her appointment tomorrow morning we will be absolutely avoiding the car seat even with a resolution, but hubby is flipping it around first thing in the morning and I’ll be sitting in the back to monitor her :) we are hoping it’s just one of those things that will eventually go away and has nothing to truly do with her o2 at any given moment.
@Annika oops I thought I replied to this one but nope! Because of all the issues at once they said they wont help. Which I guess makes sense. Apparently part of her respiratory failure was a collapsed lung too which I didn’t know til just now when I read her visit notes. So a bit mindblown there too. I don’t remember them mentioning it but it was such a long last several days idk if I could remember my own name at that time…
@Darian oh my gosh that's so scary 😭😭 I would definitely be asking about the collapsed lung thing!!
@Jessica that’s possible too! I left them a message about it and asked if we can bring in our carseat to test her in it but they don’t even know if they can squeeze us in so they may or may not be able to. Our appointment was supposed to be at 3:45pm tomorrow, but my son gets out at 3:10, I’m not bringing her with because of how long we have to sit in the car (just being cautious) so I’d have to go back home, grab her, then drive all the way to the hospital and be there by 3:35 when it’s almost impossible to get away from the school before 3:20.
@Annika yeah I was like wait up WHAT?! So hopefully her pediatrician has read that hospitals reports and can tell us what the hell that’s about. I just knowwwwww he’s gonna try to make us do her flu shot tomorrow and claim this shit happened because she hadn’t had it. Like sorry but I am not putting ANY vaccine in my baby’s body while her immune system is this weak. Idc how mad it makes him. Not doing it.
Is she rear or forward facing? The setting could be weird for her right now, do you have any pictures of her sitting in it? I might be able to give you some advice if you text me some pictures! Another option would be to join Carseat Safety group on Facebook that has a bunch of CPSTs that would be able to give you advice as they're trained in carseat safety!