Blocked Nose

Is there anyway to unblock babys nose? Hers is really blocked and she snorts when crying im presuming because of it.
Just before when she was feeding she was stopping and starting and crying coz she couldnt hardly breathe through her nose...

I think you can buy a thing from the chemist that is like what they use at hospital when the baby is first born to take out the muccus from their mouth and nose. Not good at explaining. I do know that in KMart you can get them. Its all in one and its got a long tube attached to a pump type thing and you push the pump bit (with the end of the tube in baby's nose) and it should expel what ever is stuck. Sorry if you don't get what I mean. When your MW comes next ask her if she has one to use.

hehehehe It's scary how obsessive you can get about it. I'd use tweezers if it wasn't easily available. Damn small noses and adult sized fingers!!

When i used saline drops, they just ran down into mikeys throat and he drank them!! we stopped doing that, maybe it only works for some babies.
i know it sounds gross and i've never had the guts to try but i've heard that u can actually suck the snot out of the baby's nose (blech)
Also, at night, it helped mikey sleep if we put some thick books under the legs of his cot at the head end. it just raised his head a bit which helped him to breath. but i was told definitely no pillows!!!
good luck, hope her nose clears up soon, poor wee thing.

i have heard of sucking out the snot - think plunket reccommended it. i was a snot picker myself, with the baby cotton buds or tweezers (very very carefully i assure you)

hehe this is actually turned into a funny thread lol

Where can i get some saline stuff from?

She looked so relieved when she could breathe again lol

I was a snot picker aswell, never tried the whole sucking it out thing not my cup of tea.
You can make the saline mixture yourself, tarn4 put up a mixture 1 cup cooled boiled water and 1/4 tsp salt.

You can buy saline drops from the pharmacy, we only used them once cause Quinn cried til he blacked out.

And the snot-sucking thing? We have one but never really it, I found it useless if babies nose was actually blocked rather than just snotty cause all it seemed to do was suction his nostril shut.

I was a snot picker too...

Vicks has a baby balsam which is really nice - might only be for bubs over 3months old thouhg. Mum was telling me about new vaporisers she saw advertised in a woman's magazine - kinda like those plug in air fresheners that you get the refills for - same thing but a vaporiser. not sure what they are like. She's going to send one over (I'm sure Gisborne has them if Palmy does but she seesm to think I am in the middle of nowhere and can't buy anything - and as it's free for me if she saends it, I hestitate about telling her the truith)

I went and brought a nasal aspirator from Baby Factory for piper and find that works well was only about $5