Morning all, hoping you may have some advice or experience on 2 issues. Lenghty post ahead, sorry! My son is 5 months old, he doesn't seem to have a high temperature and his nappies are all normal.
LO has been struggling with a cough and cold for around a week now - he just about seems to be over the worst of the snotty stage but the cough has got worse the past couple of days. For the past week he has been waking himself up coughing 2-3 times a night - he had been sleeping through to 7am prior to getting the cough and cold. As soon as we pick him up he'll go back to sleep and won't cough at all while held, but we have to hold him for 20 minutes before trying to put him down again otherwise he'll start crying or coughing immediately. Even if he does go back to sleep in his cot he'll wake himself coughing again around an hour later. We've dropped the foot end of his cot and have been using snuffle babes vapour rub and room drops, we also have Calcough and the Calpol plugin arriving today.
Also for around 2 weeks now, LO has started messing around when taking a bottle, arching his back to look around him, hitting it, grabbing and pulling towards his mouth but then pushing away again immediately. He's also coughing a lot this morning while the bottle is away from his face but I think that's related to the other issue as it hasn't been a problem before. He's definitely hungry and the teat flow seems right. LO weighs approx 8kg and we offer 1110ml a day - some bottles he drains, others he'll leave some. He' s on infant gaviscon for reflux.
Thank you for taking the time to read all that, any words of advice are very much appreciated!