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AIBU?

AIBU to think I injured little one despite seeming fine!

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WhatsTheT · 03/09/2015 20:38

Right I did something really daft, so don't scold me I've already scolded myself.

Little one (9 months old) has been struggling to breath all day, had a nasty crusted up snot in her nose and she wouldn't let be got to. She fell asleep, to which I thought was dead to the world. Thought I'd quickly sneak in there with a cotton bud/ q tip, she woke up with a start! me mid forraging for said bogie.

Needless to say the q tip went a lot deeper than expected, and she cried/wailed, not for long, less than a minute. Cuddle and a bit of milk later and she seemed fine.

Now my silly paranoid sleepless brain has gone into over drive thinking I may have poked her in the brain and other ridiculous notions.

Can some one bring me a brew and a cake and remind me their child can fit a whole crayon up there please?

(I never use cotton buds on her, don't know what compelled me to!)

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WhatTheJeffHasGoneOnHere · 03/09/2015 20:44

You won't have poked her in the brain. Don't do it again though, as tempting as it may seem.

WhatsTheT · 03/09/2015 20:52

I don't plan on doing lol! doubt I'll be tempted again. Hearing her whistling through that crusty nose all day though....

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Isthereeverarightime1 · 03/09/2015 20:53

Get a snot sucker and humidifier for her room at night and stay away from the cotton buds

I am sure she will be fine she was just shocked

WhatsTheT · 03/09/2015 20:55

We had a snot sucker it wouldn't even go near hear face, so we ended up getting rid.

She's still in our room :), can't afford a humidifyer I'm afraid.

The cotton buds are staying in my make up bag where they belong! lol

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Isthereeverarightime1 · 03/09/2015 21:13

Ah my little boy always found it so funny when I used it

It's awful when they have colds isn't it, I hate it! We found it helpful to put a bowl of hot water with some menthol drops under his cot and also a saline spray used to help clear it so he could breathe better

Isthereeverarightime1 · 03/09/2015 21:14

Oh and.... and

missmakesstuff · 03/09/2015 21:17

Are you bf? Breast milk up the nose works a treat..my ds dies the snuffly whistling thing, complete with bogeys actually moving in and out..buggered if I can grab them but the milk softens them and gets rid, or makes them sneeze them out, they dont mind the taste as much as saline..(don't ask how I got it there...)

paulapompom · 03/09/2015 21:25

no harm done. You have not poked her in the brain, she is ok. You wwere just trying to clear her little nose. Xx

WhatsTheT · 03/09/2015 21:32

Unfortunately she's formula fed, don't think squirting that up her nose would have the same effect! haha

Thanks for the and s

On a positive, there's not bogies now... lol...

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Griphook · 03/09/2015 21:52

Just use your little finger nail next time

Ineedtimeoff · 03/09/2015 22:00

I remember trying the snot sucker on DD once when she was sleeping. She woke up mid suck. I'm sure she must have thought I was trying to suck her brain out via her nostril. She screamed the house down. The snot sucker went in the bin after that.

I also let her fall off the bed onto a hair brush once and she ended up with a brush imprint on her face.

Hellochicken · 03/09/2015 22:02

You should see the size of a nasal pack for nosebleeds, even scaled down to a 9 month old you didn't poke them on the brain! There is quite a space back there.

Still I'd stick to saline drops or one of those snot suckers from the chemist!

Hellochicken · 03/09/2015 22:04

Plus I'd scream if I woke and someone was picking my nose!

WhatsTheT · 03/09/2015 22:07

I also let her fall off the bed onto a hair brush once and she ended up with a brush imprint on her face.

That made me laugh a lot more than it should have done.

Plus I'd scream if I woke and someone was picking my nose!

Lol but It was definitely her lunging forward onto the q tip and half the q tip going up the nasal passage that made her scream... my eyes watered for her! I felt it go further than it should, made me cringe a little.

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Purplepoodle · 03/09/2015 23:29

she will be fine. good squirt of saline spray work well (though you may have catch unaware to squirt). baths work well as when I used poor water over do head he would snuffle and splutter and bogeys would fly

VikingLady · 04/09/2015 08:59

Saline drops can be quietly dropped up their nose whilst they sleep, if they sleep on their back

And as a dedicated picker/groomer of my kids I may possibly keep my right little fingernail longer than the rest for bogey and earwax purposes.....

BestZebbie · 04/09/2015 09:28

You have four huge sinuses behind your face, which are just empty space - it will have gone into one of these very briefly (and felt it 'popping' through as you lined up with the entrance and then went in). If you didn't cause a pouring nosebleed, you definitely have not harmed anything (and if you did, all you have done is cut the inside of the sinus a little, which will happily heal up by itself).

KanyeWestPresidentForLife · 04/09/2015 09:42

Olbas oil is good

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