I hate snot

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Warning - moan coming up!

My clothes are covered in slug trails of snot.
Dd's clothes are covered in snot.
My sofa has snot stripes.
There are snotty tissues scattered all over my house.
Whenever I look at dd, she is licking another green slime trail off her lip.
Then she sees me and comes running over to give me a big hug - and lo! I have more snot on my trousers.
They don't warn you about snot in antenatal classes, do they?
Snot, snot, snot.

lol.

I am not squeamish in the slightest, I can watch operations, clean up dog poo, cat poo, horse dung and og course ds nappy!! But snot is THEE only thing that actually makes me gag!

Much sympathy to you at the mo. Ds and I both have a rotten chesty cold....so add to the snot coming out of the nose, ds is also coughing it up!!!YYYYYUCK!

Loads of sympathies. We've just had about a month of green snottiness between our two. In ds case his skin on his face got really rough and eventually started impetigo partly because of the way he tends to smear it around when he tries to blow his nose. dd hates me blowing her nose and I use a nasal aspirator to get rid of the worst in the mornings but have to pin her down to do so.

That reminds me I really must wash the sofa covers now that that batch of colds is over.

and when they've managed to wipe it in their eyes so they get conjunctivitis and there's 'snot' coming out of their eyes too, that's even more gruesome.

Oh yes Lalaa, we've had the snotty eyes before, but not this time thank God!

And then there's the way dd snorts and snuffles while feeding, and covers my boob in bleugh. Sometimes when I'm in a rush I don't notice and just yank my bra back up and then, when I undress in the evening, oh it's truly disgusting! I can cope with poo and puke, it's the snot that really makes me gag. Especially the way dried-on snot goes all slimy when you wash their darling faces.

Don't you just love motherhood?

my dd has an awful chesty cold too! i am literally wiping her nose every two minutes and have gone through tonnes of toilet roll! ( the aloe vera ones are great for the skin) This cold seems to be going round here

Do I get the Good Mummy prize? My ds is drowning in snot at the moment, which means he wakes up in the middle of the night and sounds like some undersea monster. He can't go back to sleep because he can't breath. When it's the hard, stuffy sort, in the past I have squeezed saline drips down his nostrils - he HATES it but it usually does the trick. But this cold is one of the wet variety. Desperate for sleep a couple of nights ago I finally did the thing that I swore blind I would never be able to do - ever. I sucked the snot out of his nose. Salty, slidy and slippy. And no, I don't swallow.

Cha! yuk! I was just eating some biscuits.
I thought I was used to a lot (professionally and as mum of 2 snotty children(DS will pick his nose and put the contents in my hands)).

How do children produce so much?? I swear DS2 produces more than his bodyweight per week in the height of the cold season.

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oh Cha you made me gulp, i am so glad you didn't swallow....

oh Cha! euuugh! Chemists sell things called nasal aspirators - its a little bulb thing. You squeeze the air out of it, stick the tube end up ds's nose and release the bulb - it sucks the snot out for you.

Am tempted to stick a couple of bits of cotton wool in the end of dd's nose at the moment, since she can't breathe through it anyway. D'you think the snot would explode out of her ears if I did?

No, no - you're all looking at this in the wrong way. Go WITH the snot, snot can be your friend! Makes great waterproof coatings for settees, clothing etc., much cheaper than Scotchguarding and more aesthetically pleasing than plastic slipcovers. I think the potential of snot has been enormously under-utilised.

Cha, I have often thought about doing that and wondered if I could - guess I could if my baby was having real trouble breathing. I have caught sick in my hands though - does that make me a runner up?

Most definitely, Marthamoo.