Laryngomalaica

AshLynn was born with a breathing problem. At 2 weeks we talked to her pediatrician and he suspected that she had Laryngomalaica. When she has her 1 month check up he confirmed that she did indeed have LM.

Laryngomalacia is known as floppy air way, its when there is softening of the tissues of the larynx (voice box) just above the vocal cords. This causes noisy breathing and sometimes it sounds scary. The LM causes the tissues to flop over the airway opening and partially block it. In a lot of babies, laryngomalacia is not a serious condition — they have noisy breathing, but are able to eat and grow. AshLynn thankfully is one of the few that it only causes noisy breathing and some apnea. Laryngomalaica for AshLynn will resolve without surgery by the time she is 18-20 months old. When we got to TX we had her evaluated by an ENT. He looked at her air way with a scope that went in through her nose. He said that her voical cords didn't move like he wanted so he said he wanted to re-evaluate her in 6 weeks. We came back and he scoped her once again and they had not improved. We had to decide on what to do at that point. The ENT suggested we do a more indepth scope, MRI, an over night evaluation as well as a swallow study. So now we wait on all the test results. Boy do I hate waiting. Hoping no news is good news.