A Quick Heads Up about Babies and Breathing

I think one of the reasons that so many people love babies is that they are not mouth-breathers.  Have you ever been around somebody who has a cold or allergies?  Of course you have.  That was a leading question.  When it is quiet, you can hear their gaping mouth swallowing waves of air, and if you close your eyes you can imagine any multitude of strange creatures are in the room with you.  Zombies, even though they don't breathe in most urban legend, make that wheezy moaning sound.  You could imaging the Boogieman, the monster under your bed, or even ghosts uttering the guttural and rattling mouth breath.  Babies are obligate nasal breathers, meaning they prefer breathing through their nose (though they can mouth breathe if sick or crying most of the time). Babies are not mouth breathers, but therein lies a problem from time to time.

Anxiety, Nightmares, and Sleep Deprivation...Oh My!

Elizabeth awakes with a start, which wakes me up.  She starts freaking out, looking at the floor next to our bed. My mind races.  She's fallen asleep during feeding and accidentally rolled Sam off of the bed and onto the floor, a drop of several feet! I fly out of the covers and hustle over to Liz's side of the bed, and I see what she sees.  There is a pile of clothes on the floor, and in those clothes somewhere must be our ailing child.  He's not crying...is he ok, or is it something much worse? We both in our semi-conscious states endure each other freaking out and swearing when one of us comes to our senses and looks in the bassinet next to our bed, where Sam sleeps.  He is lying there in the bassinet peacefully napping.  We breathe.

Is your unusually tight Lingual Frenulum causing Ankyloglossia?

They say you learn something new every day...I guess that the old addage changes once you are a father. Now it seems that I learn something new almost hourly, and now I have the chance to share this knowledge with you. I will bold all the questionable vocab and create a glossary page with definitions after posting this entry. Our topic today: Frenotomy.