I've never read or posted on this group before, but I'm hoping someone
can answer a quick question for me.

Could intubating a newborn to "clear him out" if he sounds a little
gurgly after birth ultimately damage his trachea?  I had a baby one
week ago, and within minutes of his birth, a nurse put a clear tube
down his throat to suction him out.  He's since made a snorting sound
when he cries and occasionally coughs, which the pediatrician says is
likely caused by an under-developed trachea.  Could it be a damaged
trachea from the tube instead?  Neither my memory nor our birth
videotape reveal the snorting sound prior to the intubation, but it
does show up immediately after she pulls the tube out.

Thanks for the help.  

-Carlye