To think it's absolutely fucking vile

[WetsTheFinger]

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.

Not even your own child's, Koala?

Jesus I thought it was bad enough when I tried one of those baby nose sucking things
My mum bought be one, (it's like a straw and you suck to loosen snot)
I only used it once because the fear of her snot accidentally entering my mouth was too hard to bare!!

Gross to swallow, I would have said gross fullstop however I had to do this once when DD was small. I know it sounds really disgusting but she literally couldn't breathe and it was all I could think of, a sucker dropper thing didn't work, I had to suck and spit. She was fine afterwards but I was heaving for hours. But when its a choice between doing something disgusting and watching your baby struggle to breathe...I would chose the gross thing all day long. But still...ugh.

When my baby was tiny, she was really struggling to breathe due to a congested nose. It was in the middle of the night, single parent, don't drive etc etc. So couldn't get a snot sucker thing. I did it, I was terrified because my baby couldn't breathe. Am I a dirty birch?

I can see how it works. When mine are congested I put them in a warm bath and when i wash their faces sort of pull the snot out with a flannel until it stops coming and they are always loads better after

I've never been in the situation with a horribly bunged up child, so I assume if it was necessary.

However I've had my hand up the u-bend more times that I care to remember due to DSs prolific pooing (sometimes with only a leaks plastic bag for protection).

West Indian DH will do this, I think its also absolutely fucking vile, but then we all do things we don't necessarily enjoy for the sake of someone else.

Not to say I wasn't agog the first time, until the horror set in that is.

That is absolutely vile and totally unnecessary!!

My cousin once did it for her tiny baby who has bronchiolitis and was really distressed...that's a whole different ball game though.

I suppose I never really thought about it, but it's a quite common thing to do in my community, but I've only ever seen people do it with a flannel/muslin over the nose so that you didn't actually get any snot in your mouth.

I wonder does it increase immunity in bf mothers' milk, to help fight the infection? It likely does.