Scary moment this morning

[newmamalizzy]

DD's dad was holding her this morning and spun her around a few times.  She seemed to be having fun at first, then her face turned bright red, her pupils dilated, and her whole body stiffened.  She was back to normal in seconds, but it left her dad and I very shaken.  What on earth happened?  Did she have a small seizure?  Was she about to pass out?  Needless to say, we will not be doing baby spinning again any time soon.  Has anyone else had this happen?

[P.J.]

Egad! I would bring her to the pediatrician just to check if that were me.

That must have been really scary. I'm glad she seems okay now though.

[sosurreal09]

I second what the PP said

[sk8boarder15]

Wow. I have NO idea! But that would scare me too! It already scares me when dh spins or tosses baby. 0.0

[lunarlady]

Scary! How old is baby? Any chance he triggered the fall reflex? That would involve stiff body, arms out, breath held...

In any case I would agree with the pp about checking with the ped on your next visit. Couldn't hurt!

[yukookoo]

could just be reflux too?

DD used to do this on the baby swings, not that we tried it more than once every few months, dh more than me....

she had bad reflux and somehow the swing would make it worse and she would get red and stiffen and sort of pause for a moment then swallow and then cry dont know if pupils dialated though

now she loves to swing though, started liking it around 2.5 or so when she grew out of reflux...

anyway I would check with dr, but dont get too too worried, it could be something and it could be nothing too

[newmamalizzy]

She's acted normal all day, but I think I'm going to call her ped's office in the morning and talk to the nurse about it just to be sure.  She's 9 months old, so pretty hardy at this point.  We do lots of dancing with her, sometimes spinning a bit, but nothing like that ever happened before. 

[bonjourmama]

Um, definitely seen this happen with our six month old before. Whenever someone swings her in the bucket car seat(much to my disdain) she makes a red face, big eyes, and looks to be stiff as a board and holding her breath. 

Poor little things always getting tossed around and swung about. Guilty of seeing the same face though.