DD2 born at term, had cough since birth but 5 days ago coughing worse, sounds snotty with breathing but not too awful. Started sicking up majority of feeds (breastfed) when cough got worse, and yesterday, after rattly car ride she started grunting for breathing then eventually sick masses of green snot, very hard to clear off her face. Contacted NHS direct (what our out of hours dr goes through to) and saw emergency dr, who obviously wasn't concerned or indeed experienced with tiny babies. He said her chest is clear, and prescibed saline nasal drops.
Today she is still being sick, and when awake is coughing, sneezing and groaning (sounds kind of like retching groan noise? its the noise she usually makes after coughing, only without the cough always first), or sleepy- no quiet awake time like usual.
Apart from all that, she is feeding normally, frequently, not dehydrated or floppy, normal fontanelles and no rash.
Is there anything I could be doing to help her?
She's caught it from me, I've been sick since she was born with some virus or other, and I've been on antibiotics since Tuesday.
thank you for reading and hope you can help