Hyperventilating?!
Question: Hyperventilating!?
This morning, my bf and I got into a huge heated argument!.!.and I started hyperventilating [im 22 wks] like really bad!.!.to the point that I lost my breath for nearly 20 seconds, and I regained my breath back, and then I lost my breath again for about 5 seconds!. Clearly that is too much stress for the baby, and even my bf was terrified and wanted to take me to the hospital immediately!. I am just worried what that could of done to my baby!. I've taken it easy the whole day, resting and napping!. But its scaring me because he doesnt seem to be as active!. Like, I feel him moving around in there!.!.but not really kicking or punching like he usually loves to do!. I dont have a doctors appt til aug 12!. Should I go to the hospital to make sure everything is okay!? Or what do you think!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
Hyperventilating will not (contrary to popular belief) cause you lack of oxygen!. Actually it's exactly the other way around!. For most of our breathing is controlled by the carbondioxide levels in our blood (in long term smokers and emphesemic persons the process has exactly reversed)!. When you're hyperventilating, you increase the O2 in your blood, and your body will do one of the following two things:
- make you loose consesiousness, so that it can balance the O2 (oxygen) to CO2 (carbondioxide) ratio, because when you're 'knocked out', you stop hyperventilating!.!.!.
- contract the diaphragm (a large, involuntary muscle right under the lungs and heart, that help with exhaling - breathing in is 'natural' and does not need effort due to some somewhat complex chemical and pressure related clever facts)!.
In any case, the levels of CO2 will be increased and the O2 decreased and you'll feel normal again!. Your body reacted in the way it did, probably because of your pregnancy (more common is the tingling sensation, panic, and then pass out)!.
I personally do not believe that your baby could be harmed with this one incident (when you stopped breathing, you had more than plenty of oxygen in your blood for the baby)!. But if it repeats, there could be other issues that you may want to work out (especially for the sake of the baby)!.
Do tell your Ob/gyn what happened though, so that s/he knows what kind of stress factors you're going through which might complicate the pregnancy and birth!. Good luck!Www@Answer-Health@Com
- make you loose consesiousness, so that it can balance the O2 (oxygen) to CO2 (carbondioxide) ratio, because when you're 'knocked out', you stop hyperventilating!.!.!.
- contract the diaphragm (a large, involuntary muscle right under the lungs and heart, that help with exhaling - breathing in is 'natural' and does not need effort due to some somewhat complex chemical and pressure related clever facts)!.
In any case, the levels of CO2 will be increased and the O2 decreased and you'll feel normal again!. Your body reacted in the way it did, probably because of your pregnancy (more common is the tingling sensation, panic, and then pass out)!.
I personally do not believe that your baby could be harmed with this one incident (when you stopped breathing, you had more than plenty of oxygen in your blood for the baby)!. But if it repeats, there could be other issues that you may want to work out (especially for the sake of the baby)!.
Do tell your Ob/gyn what happened though, so that s/he knows what kind of stress factors you're going through which might complicate the pregnancy and birth!. Good luck!Www@Answer-Health@Com
go to the dotcor!!!!! the baby relys on you for oxygen and when you hyperventilated it deprieved the baby of oxygen, you should have gone to the hospital right awayWww@Answer-Health@Com