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The Snot Sucker???

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Guests

“Mama, my nose is running.” 3 minutes pass. “Mama, my nose is running again.” 2 minutes pass. “Mama, my nose is running AGAIN.” 30 seconds pass. “Mama, my nose is STILL running – you didn’t wipe it properly!”

Sheesh! This has been my world for the last few days since Bowser picked up the summer cold that’s been passing through the family. Because it’s summer and he has no long sleeves to cuff on he’s devised a new method of either lifting up the body of his T-shirt or pulling out the neck to wipe his nose on. How gross? But as I tell him for the millionth time through gritted teeth to use a tissue, NOT his shirt I have to feel a little sorry for him since he still hasn’t mastered the art of nose blowing. Bowser is 3 ½ and through his recent cold we’ve still been trying to explain how-to. Breathe out of your nose…no, close your mouth. Blow out, no, out of your nose. We get strange sounds, and contorted features, but no action.

I tweeted this – you know what us moms are like: sharing our children’s bodily excretions with the Twitterverse is what we do best. @mamasuperpow Tweeted me back with a recommendation:

@RookieMommy try a NoseFrida Snot Sucker. It looks gross and strange, but it WORKS!!

Now there’s a no-nonsense product name. I had to investigate. And this is what I found.

Until you have a baby with a cold you don’t realize how handy it is to be able to blow your nose. A cold to us* is usually no more than an inconvenience, but when it’s your 6 month old baby that’s congested the whole household suffers. What’s a mom to do when her baby has a cold? Make sure they get plenty of sleep and hydration we’re advised, but when Baby is all bunged up both are harder to accomplish. Baby doesn’t sleep well, and may have trouble breastfeeding or bottle feeding because it’s hard to suck when you need to use your mouth for breathing. Colds are often followed by ear infection as the shortness and angle of the ear canal makes it easy for infection to travel from the nose and throat to the ear. Then you have another week of sleepless nights, fever and general unpleasantness to deal with. So the best thing to do is try and clear the baby’s nose …and since they can’t blow, that means sucking it out – Moms get all the best jobs. But this NoseFrida Snot Sucker might just make this particular job easier.

*When I say ‘us’ I’m talking of the fairer sex of course – we all know in men the common cold morphs into a life threatening case of Man-flu after ½ an hour.

In my conversations with NoseFrida they kindly agreed to give away one of their snot suckers to one (lucky?…I’m not so sure) reader.

To enter simply pop to the NoseFrida site and come back with a fact about NoseFrida and leave it in a comment below.

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