how to land your kid in therapy

Also you posted in the how to land your kid in therapy thread, so. . . .

Oh dude, do you have a nose bulb and saline yet? Because when your kid does catch a little cold, you're going to have to develop extreme proficiency at removing boogers. This was by far the roughest thing to deal with when our girl got sick.

I've heard good things about this Swedish snot system, but never had the chance to try it.
http://nosefrida.com/

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5.0 out of 5 stars IT SUCKS BOOGIES & catches them in a tube to eat later, December 2, 2010

By Moobs (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

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my wife has tiny nostrils. i can't fit any of my fingers in her nose...it's amazing she can breathe through her nose at all. consequently, our son is also lacking in the nostril-diameter department. he gets boogies...he can't breathe very well...he gets upset. it's been like that since he was born, whenever that was...recently. i forget, but i digress. we came home from the hospital with a pretty decent nose-sucking bulb...it did a reasonably OK job of sucking out boogers...and was reasonably firm and springy. but then our dog ate it. so, i tried to find a replacement. not all bulbs are created equal, i soon found out. some were too hard to squeeze and didn't spring back quickly enough. others were too soft to suck anything out and just sat there, mocking me. i tried at least four different replacement bulbs, none of which were as good as the one from the hospital. we even tried a fancy battery powered nose vacuum that made a whirring sound but produced nary a single lump of green gold. while ordering the various, useless bulbs i also ordered this thing - the nosefrida - on a whim thinking i was probably wasting $13.

BOY WAS I WRONG.

this thing works. it sucks boogers out of noses. it even stores them in a little tube to eat later. or, you can just wash them out in the sink. anyway...it works better than any of the other things we tried...and we tried pretty much everything. there's a technique to it:

- suck in quick short bursts with your mouth muscles first...to loosen things up
- then, suck in long hoover-style bursts to get those boogies out
- if the boogies get stuck near the surface, try pulling the end of the thing out a little mid-suck a few times
- use a tissue or q-tip to get any nose goblins that are loitering anywhere accessible
- repeat

if i was a professional booger sucker...and it was my job to suck the snot out of noses 8 hours a day, i would insist on using this thing. but i would want a longer tube, and a holster.

Moobs!

My sister-in-law used to just apply her mouth to her infants' noses and suck the snot out that way, so I guess you don't necessarily need a swedish snot system, but...

so totally ordered. but yeah I used to know a Polish family who was like "what's wrong with American mothers? why don't they suck out their babies' snot?" --strict mouth-to-nose, eliminating the middleman. and I guess there are claims about shared beneficial flora et al for that kinda thing but then again all home-remedy type stuff comes with all kindsa claims.

we have a nosefrida, tbh i don't really think its any better than the bulb. the kid certainly doesn't have a preference, she hates either.

feel like i don't have much input re: sickness, our kid hasn't gotten that sick yet since she's at home most of the time, just a couple of colds. i will say that when she was in daycare for two weeks, she caught a cold which she then passed on to me that was pretty much the worst cold i've ever had, some kind of baby-only supercold that took me literally a month to completely shake. the kid never seemed that upset about it though, she'd be a little grouchy once in a while but was never miserable.

lol when I worked with kids I used to get The Supercold about once a season, just the unshakeable fuckin' A you little monsters are made of strong stuff flu of doom

The thing about little kids and colds and stuff is that the parents who sequester them and take extra precautions to maintain them sicky-poo free when they're tiny will eventually get their ass kicked when their kids get bigger and go to school and get totally sick all the time when it really counts. All kids get sick, but colds and even fevers are pretty par for the course. Build their resistance when they are young. The only thing I tend to avoid is other kids who have terrible coughs, not that I'm worried about my kids getting sick, per se, but because kids take weeks to get over a cough. Snot sucker is vital, btw, for all parents.

Anyway, aero, just be reasonable, wash hands, etc. Use common sense. Don't be afraid of sick people, but don't let them slobber all over the baby, either. And it's never too early to teach/adopt the so-called vampire cough.
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haha well as I mentioned my fear of sick people is an ongoing kinda deal - when I worked in hospitals & had sicktime I didn't have any such fear but when "calling in sick" = losing a lot of money one's relationship to illness changes

If you ever have a month off, go on a handshaking/doorknob-licking spree.

p sure the lil dude will be fine---he's got mom's immune system for about six months and then he's got to start paying his own immunological rent

basically quincie otm