Sucking snot anyone??!!

[MrsWhirling]

Sorry. But has anyone resorted to using this method to relieve their newborn of a blocked nose/mucus? If so, how do you actually do it? At my wits end with a really congested 8 week old. I even brought one of those bulbs from Mothercare today but he goes berserk anytime it goes near him :( any advice would be greatly appreciated x

Yes. Dd was very snotty as a newborn. Had to help her as she was struggling to feed, so DH swaddled her and held her while I used the dreaded snot sucker. She hated it, but it worked!

I just couldn't do it! How about the saline spray - they seem to work really well?

I've been using the saline which does bring relief but you can hear the snot swirling around needing to come out. What about parents that actually use their mouths to suck it out? Anyone tried that? I'm getting desperate?

The snot sucker gadgets work and aren't gross at all. No snot can get to the sucker. But i wouldn't go direct. That mings. It's not easy to administer though, i admit.

Isn't there a special valve inside the sucker exactly so you don't take any in? I'm squeamish about it but if it helped my baby...

Just looked up on Google found this on eHow.com:

You should go in the bathroom and run a hot steamy shower and then cradle your baby and comfort him and cuddle him for about 10 minutes so that he can breathe the warm steamy air. If your baby is older than 3 months, you can get a mentholated vapor bubble bath and pour it in the water and they can breathe that in as well. They make such for babies. After 10 minutes, you can take the baby and gently put in saline drops in the nose. Two drops for each nostril. Then take them out of the bathroom and lay them down for 10 minutes. After the 10 minutes is over, you can try to suction the mucous and saline back out of their nose. So you take the bulb syringe, squeeze it, place it into the nose and release the bulb and it should suction out some of the mucous.

Read more: Video: How to Treat Congestion in Newborns | eHow.com www.ehow.com/video_4992839_treat-congestion-newborns.html#ixzz2JYLWzub0

One of the most disgusting things I have ever seen was a toddler in a pram with his mum waiting for the lights to change, he did a massive 'snot sneeze' and the Mum just leaned forward and slurped all the snot up, she didn't even spit it out.
My Mum and I just stood there like we missed the green man and everything, my Mum said weakly after her, "I had a tissue".

Saline drops are really good and less minging although DD informs me they taste like sea thats been wee'd in then something died in it, I didn't like to say that they just taste like sea then!

Aahh, my gadget is different to that one. I got it in mothercare. It has a hard plastic nib and a rubber bulb. The nib isn't as long as that one. Perhaps that's why I am having no success

notso !

You need Olbas oil. Or Karvol. From most pharmacies. Works a treat.

Next time she's due to be weighed or checked, I'd pop along with that gadget and ask someone at the clinic to show you how to use it. In fact if she's unhappy and bunged up, take her along whether she's due a check up or not.

He + him, sorry, not 'she + her'.