To think it's absolutely fucking vile

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To suck the snot out of your child's nose and swallow it. Or spit it, for that matter. I just heaved watching a woman do this to her snotty toddler this afternoon at soft play.

I feel fucking sick. Surely there's other ways to get baby snot out?
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I thought this was absolutely gross until i spoke to a friend of mine who said her partner did it - i said that it was so gross and she said they were out with her newborn, didn't have a aspirator, and her newborn was struggling to breathe (i guess the newborn didn't know how to open her mouth?) and then she asked me what i would have done in her position. Didn't say much about it after to be fair - i guess it does depend on the situation!

Blimey. A bit of baby snot and people turn all pathetic.

I couldn't do it personally....

It's grim but if my baby was really struggling to breathe I'd do anything to help them

I first heard about this when I read an article about adele the singer doing it for her baby. I just think if it eases your congested baby why would you want to leave them struggling to breathe comfortably.

Eating snot is actually good for you - see this recent article in the independent here she should however be insisting the child eats its own snot.

I have sucked the amniotic fluid from puppies and lambs in the line of duty but I have gobbed it out immediately. This has made me actually want to hurl though and I'm as hard as fecking nails despite not being Scottish. Fuck sake!

Thank you, ExC!

My family is from the Caribbean and it's something they have always done, in fact my brother had to do it to his dd the other night.
You can use a cloth though as long as air can get through it so it's not as gross.

If it was a life or death situation I don't believe that anyone would refuse to do it.

My DP does this, he's Zimbabwean and said it's pretty common there. Does spit it out though.

I wouldn't do it, I use nasal spray and nose bulb!

Needing a warning in the title?! Come on now.

I can't get too worked up about this, wouldn't do it myself but I doubt I'd be heaving or vomiting!

I don't particularly have an issue with the snot sucking per se, I just think it's odd to gleefully post about something that made you heave, knowing it will upset other people.

My mum's Jamaican and told me she used to do this for me and my brother when we were babies. No biggie.

She didn't swallow it though!

Or, it could be cultural difference

Perhaps that IS the cultural difference - that we're so precious and delicate!

Yeah, I did this with my babies when they had colds before a feed when the saline spray ran out/ went walkabout. I spat it out though -

A doctor told me to do this when DD was a baby and had the most awful streaming cold. I did it a few times, but it seemed to distress her even more and of course the crying made her even MORE snotty so I had an 'excuse' not to keep it up! I'm showing her this thread - shes always insisted no one would do this in a million years and I'm making it up.

Oh god that's gross

It's grim, but I've done it when DS has struggled to breathe and snot sucker not to be found.

Have immediately spat and brushed my teeth though!

I used to inject saline up their little nostrils - not the spray, a big squirt of warm solution. A river of snot would come out of the other nostril, it was so satisfying.