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4.5 month old has a cold - so anxious

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Rooandtwo · 29/08/2023 21:48

Hi

i know I’m being pathetic about this. DD has her first cold coming on and I’m lying here with her in the next to me crib and I can hear her breathing congested and I am just so scared that if I go to sleep she will stop breathing. I was just starting to worry less about SIDS etc as we are past 4 months but I can’t sleep knowing her tiny nose is blocked up. It’s not even that bad yet and tomorrow night is bound to be worse. I know I really need to sleep to take care of her tomorrow but I just can’t. Any words of experience would be so helpful just now.

OP posts:
DustyLee123 · 29/08/2023 21:50

Ever so slightly lift the head of her cot.
Have you got any olbas oil ?

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Rooandtwo · 29/08/2023 21:54

I haven’t. I will get the baby one tomorrow. I’ve ordered literally everything recommended on here from Amazon to arrive tomorrow. I could lift one end of the crib but worry that’s against sleep guidelines. My anxiety has me in a corner this evening.

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QuacketyQuack · 29/08/2023 21:57

I use Vicks humidifiers, it works wonders

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Quitelikeit · 29/08/2023 21:58

You can buy plug ins to help vaporise the room

You can also get saline drops for her nose or you can buy a little pipette thing to suck the gunk from her nose

habr you got any Vicks or anything?

Lazyhazydays · 29/08/2023 22:00

We lifted one end of Moses basket with books under the feet when our DS was a few weeks old, midwife recommended, was to help with reflux. We have done it since with cot when he has colds/coughs. We used books under the feet so that we weren't putting anything under the mattress.

I used my level app on my phone to make sure it was same height on both sides and to make sure it wasn't a huge lift (I was pretty anxious!)

justanotherlaura · 29/08/2023 22:21

I best things I found was lifting one end of the cot with a couple of thick textbooks and the nasal aspirator that you suck rather than the bulb one that I found was useless and saline solution to loosen everything up.

My sister is a midwife and she suggested something under the legs of the cot to lift it a bit when my son had his first cold, keeps the mattress surface flat but helps fluid drain down the throat easier than flat on their back

Hope it's over soon, so horrible seeing them not well

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