4 month old with a cold

[harper30]

Erghhhhhh just wondered if there are any tips I've not heard of yet.
At the moment DD will go to sleep, either from feeding or being rocked/walked around then will sleep for about 5 minutes before she is woken up by doing a big 'sniff' and getting all snotty again, writhing about, getting worked up.
This happened all last night so she was awake roughly every 15 minutes throughout the night and my nipples basically fell off.
She won't take a dummy, god knows I have tried.

I've got a calpol plug-in on the go.
A cool mist humidifier
Baby vicks/that snuffle baby stuff on her chest and feet?? Someone told me this works.
White noise machine cranked up.
Have aspirated her nose and used the saline drops (she hates me doing it so a more regular snot sucking will just wake her right up anyway)
Head end of her cot raised.

Am I missing anything? Any wisdom?
Any ideas how long this will probably last? One night of 15 minute wake up calls was pretty bad but the same for the forseeable is making me very sad.
Cheers all!

Calpol plug-in thing. £7 at Boots. Smells of eucalyptus, melts the snot, baby sleeps. Has an annoying light on it, so plug it in behind something so the light doesn't disturb baby.

I used to sit in the bathroom with the shower running on hot whilst feeding to help loosen all the mucus.

It is a bit of a case of ride it out I'm afraid.

Keep an eye on her feeding, if she is reducing feeds and not staying latched on long she could be at risk of dehydration. This is often related to difficulty breathing, see below.

If she looks like she is breathing faster than normal, sucking in her tummy under her ribs or on the soft part on the front of her neck, looking pale or blue then get her checked out via 111/OOH doctor or at the hospital. If changing colour then 999. Bronchiolitis is common at this time of year, caused by a virus it can cause difficulty breathing in under 2's and tends to be worse on day 3-5 of the virus.

Hopefully it is just a cold and will pass, but be watchful and if you are worried get her seen.

Hope she gets better soon.

Snuffle rub chest back and bottoms of feet, I have a 4 month old with a cold too. BB bought home from nursery.

Also prop head end of cot on a couple of books so baby isn't flat when lying down.

I'm soooo tired

Thanks all, glad I'm not the only one going through it!
We got midnight to 4.45 asleep!!! The added trick seemed to be a flatish pillow under her head. Which I know is probably forbidden so for tomorrow night I'll put it under the fitted sheet, but sometimes whatever works you know?! And she sleeps right next to me in our room so I wasn't too worried.
Thanks all 😊

@HEIGhtstiAeR I know what you mean about the annoying light!!! I had to tape some duct tape over the light in the end, it was like a bloody blue spotlight across the room! 😂

Oh yes ours has duct tape over it too it's so bright.

I got the same 12-4 but my toddler woke up in between. Gah

@2littleboymonkeys if it isn't one it's the other 😂 I hope your day is going ok with lack of sleep again for you. Ours was ok except on a 25 minute car journey back to our house this afternoon she screamed until she basically passed out. Why do I have the one child who hates car journeys???

Lol @harper30 you don't, mine does too, screams constantly in the car.
I have even tried printing off a picture of myself and sticking it to the car seat in front of him, it didn't work. What my neighbours must think with me always returning home with a screaming baby lol

I have skipped a couple of feeds today and given him formula and tonight has been a bit better, my mum said my milk supply may have lowered from being so tired for so long and he definitely seems to be catching up on some sleep and my boobs are full again.

We went through the same a few weeks ago - awful seeing them struggling to breathe. We ran the shower and got the bathroom really misty right before bed and it actually seemed to help a lot. A few nights though we ended up putting him in the car seat on his buggy and parking him next to the back door to let the fresh air open his airways. He got a bit more sleep that way but we didn't!

I think it's a particularly nasty congested version of the cold going round as I never saw my eldest so bunged up and he had loads of colds.

@2littleboymonkeys that is literally hilarious I was thinking of doing EXACTLY that yesterday and sticking a picture of me on the seat so she can see it!!!??? Glad to know before I bother that it doesn't work 😂 I'm also tempted to hang the iPad from that seat so she can see it and play some videos to distract her, I'm just worried that in a crash she'd get an iPad to the face, so not very safe.
Hope these colds go always soon, we're still suffering the congestion

@harper30 I'm having a terrible night, took me two hours to settle so got to bed at 12 and up again 2 hours later.
I'm on my knees can't do this anymore I need some sleep

Oh @2littleboymonkeys I'm so sorry I've only just seen your reply.
Are you ok?
I don't really know how private messages work on mumsnet (on the app anyway) but feel free to message me any time or I can send you my number and we can WhatsApp at stupid o'clock when our damn babies won't sleep? 😂
Our nights have still been shit, she's waking up every hour or two, even though the cold is basically gone. I feel like she got used to such frequent feeding and using my boobs like a dummy?? Despair.

@harper30 hi, I sent you a WhatsApp Thankyou for your message, are you on WhatsApp?