to be annoyed with snotty granny?

[flipper99]

My mum just came to visit for a few days for my lo's christening. However she had a horrible cold which started the day before she arrived, and now both I and 3 month old lo also have it and are both feeling rotten. What's more we have had a week of him sleeping through the night but last night he was obviously unsettled and reverted to his previously usual 3.30 waking (when he was fed) and, being a bit ill and pessimistic, I am now assuming this will now become the norm again :(

I wouldn't have expected her to miss the christening but I wish she had phoned to let me know before she arrived. She could have stayed with other relatives, or even I could have just made a decision to ask her to wash her hands a lot and limit cuddle time. As it was I caught her on several occasions blowing her nose with one hand with baby in other!

I realise I could be overreacting due to my own snottiness (and inability to take any decent cold remedies due to breast feeding!). I know all babies have to have colds at some point so AIBU?

YANBU. I got a cold when DS was 16 weeks, and he caught it. At that stage he was waking once a night. He's never slept that well again since, and he's now 8 months - I had no sleep at all when he had the cold, and then for the next six weeks he was up every 1.5-2 hours, and it's very gradually got better so that we're now down to three wakings a night. Several friends have had the same experience with small babies, colds and sleep - good sleep, then a cold, then permanently wrecked sleep. Yes, they have to get colds eventually, but it's a nightmare when they're really little, and I'd have been really annoyed with anyone who didn't ask first before exposing us to lurgies!

You can use Karvol from 3 months and Otrivin paediatric nasal drops- both are magic darts for nasal congestion in babies.