Talk to Cussons Mum & Me about your top tips for dealing with a snotty baby - you could win a £150 voucher plus a year's supply of Cussons Mum & Me products NOW CLOSED

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With cold season once again upon us, Cussons Mum & Me, a range of specially designed skincare and personal care products for Babies featuring a special Baby Bath to help Comfort Snuffles, would like to know about your top tips for relieving a baby with a blocked nose as well as your stories about blocked noses and babies.

Here's what Cussons Mum & Me have to say: "If your baby has a snuffle, it can sometimes be hard knowing what to do to help them. That's why we want to hear from you, the real experts. We listened to the voices of over 1000 mums to help design the Cussons Mum and Me range. The special Baby Bath to Comfort Snuffles with a gentle menthol fragrance, offers a different way to help comfort little noses, and soothe baby." All baby products are Paediatrician Approved and Hypoallergenic.

So, what are your top tips for helping a snotty baby? And please share your horror stories of baby blocked up noses on this thread.

Whatever your top tips are, Cussons Mum & Me would love to hear about it.

Everyone who posts on this thread will be entered into a prize draw where one winner will receive a £150 shopping voucher plus a year's supply of Cussons Mum & Me products.

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Thanks and good luck,
MNHQ

steam from the bath always helps, and I put some olbas oil on a tissue in their bedroom and put a rolled blanket under the mattress to raise their head up slightly, and definitely lots and lots of soft tissues.

A long bath to help the steam work, and then a baby wipe to get the snot out

Put a little bit of vaseline around their nose to stop it becoming sore.

vaseline to stop sore noses, sudocrem to relieve if it does get sore. Steam/lavender to unclog, and some fresh air every day to blow away the germs.

Couple of drops of Karvol or Olbas oil on a hankie or tissue, and put it in the cot near the baby (no need to put it too close to them, the smell is strong and the vapours will reach them!)

Olbas Oil and steam

Olbas oil on a muslin under bed sheet or pillowcase. Snuffle babe on the chest and a nice warm bath before bed.

3 drops of baby olbas oil in a jug of hot water placed under the cot and or a wet flannel over the radiator. My little one's snuffles are instantly relieved and we sleep really well too.

Most effective tips for colds that I have used (after discovering them on forums like this!) are as follows..

1. Get the bathroom nice & steamy before their bathtime - putting a few drops of Olbas oil into a bowl of hot water on windowsill (or anywhere out of baby's reach) & letting this circulate with the steam.
2. Calpol plug-in is brilliant - smells absolutely yummy & really seems to help little one.
3. Raising mattress slightly so head is elevated.
4. A few drops of Olbas on a muslin tucked into pillowcase.
5. Before bed - rub snufflebabe/vapor rub onto soles of feet, put socks over this & put little one to bed in socks. I don't know why but this really does work! :)

Saline drops are great, and a little bit of olbas oil (the baby kind) somewhere in the room always worked a treat.

Lots of steam always helps along with calpol, vicks and olbas!

I've just had ds3 after a longish gap; and I totally forgot about the snotty baby thing, it's relatively common after birth

boiling the kettle

Warm flannel and saline drops alternately.

We had a snot Hoover thing, bought in the throws of PFBness. DS hated it. I usually found that some karvol or similar plus a good wipe did the trick!

When my ds is snotty, both when he was a bany and now at 3.4 I have a hot shower running, with the plug in the bath and lots of albus oil. All windows shut. I always find it makes a huge difference (and as a sinus sufferer it always made my nasal passages nicer too!).

Also I have menthol crystals, which I use when my sinuses flair up. However, I put some In a bowl with hot water, leave in LOs bedroom whilst they have their evening bath. When you go back in its full of vapour which again I found help loads.

I also put Vaporub on the soles of their feet and put them to sleep with socks on

Whenever my children have been snotty or bunged up I would give the usual nurofen/ cal pol and when I lay them in the cot put sum boiling kettle water in a bowl with a spoonful of Vicks let it all dissole and put it under the cot. Of course out of reach! Make sure y don't use your best Pyrex bowl tho as it's a bugger to clean the next day when the waters cooled down. Also some olbas oil on a bib hung round one of the cot bars and a warm flannel the next morning to remove any hard snot that comes away in the night.

vaporub is a life saver and baby olbas oil. i swear by that !!

a bit of olbas oil on a damp teatowel on the radiator often helps. That and a steamy bath.

vicks vaporub is magic :D

I haven't learnt a good trick yet

Using a muslin and Vaseline for little sore noses, and def Vicks on feet!

I found if my daughter was really bunged up it would help her to be sat up, or have her head elevated. We used to roll a tea towel up and wedge it under her mattress and let her have her evening nap in her bouncy chair.

This and lots of steamy baths.