Silly Straw
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Scout has her first cold. I feel very blessed that as of tomorrow, she will be 7 months old, and she has never even had so much as the sniffles until now. But I still hate that my sweet little girl is all snorkly and gurgly. Poor thing HATES having her nose wiped. So on top of feeling crummy, she has to deal with mommy coming at her nose every 10 minutes with a wash cloth. Even more than getting her nose wiped, she despises the nasal aspirator.
I know it looks absolutely ridiculous, but I am seriously considering ordering a product I first saw featured at Thingamababy:
The Nosefrida Nasal Aspirator
If I do, I'm sure it will arrive when her cold is past the nose-full-of-snot phase, but after reading the rave reviews, I think it would be worth it to have one on hand for future snot-sucking.
Because I am cheap...er..I mean, innovative, I tried fashioning my own hill-billy Noefrida by taking the bulb off of a large baby medicine dropper and sucking the snot out that way. The shape and size of the medicine dispenser is pretty similar to that of the Nosefrida - the only things missing are the long tube and the snot filter. (I'm really not afraid of a little bit of baby snot getting in my mouth. I guess I'm just gross like that) I only tried it once before I decided that is was a bad idea. First of all, I don't like it that my face was 2 inches away from her face while I'm performing this highly irritating and maddening thing on her. If I'm going to make her that made, I don't want her to only view to be a close-up of mommy's face attached to the device that is torturing her. Seems like that would be disturbing. Second, I'm sure that the Nosefrida is designed the way it is designed for a reason. The fact that there is a long tube probably prevents the parent from sucking too forcefully.
Babies are expensive. We just bought a humidifier for her room last night and now I want this fancy Norwegian mucous collector? Gees. I guess we just love you that much, Scout.
I know it looks absolutely ridiculous, but I am seriously considering ordering a product I first saw featured at Thingamababy:
The Nosefrida Nasal Aspirator
If I do, I'm sure it will arrive when her cold is past the nose-full-of-snot phase, but after reading the rave reviews, I think it would be worth it to have one on hand for future snot-sucking.
Because I am cheap...er..I mean, innovative, I tried fashioning my own hill-billy Noefrida by taking the bulb off of a large baby medicine dropper and sucking the snot out that way. The shape and size of the medicine dispenser is pretty similar to that of the Nosefrida - the only things missing are the long tube and the snot filter. (I'm really not afraid of a little bit of baby snot getting in my mouth. I guess I'm just gross like that) I only tried it once before I decided that is was a bad idea. First of all, I don't like it that my face was 2 inches away from her face while I'm performing this highly irritating and maddening thing on her. If I'm going to make her that made, I don't want her to only view to be a close-up of mommy's face attached to the device that is torturing her. Seems like that would be disturbing. Second, I'm sure that the Nosefrida is designed the way it is designed for a reason. The fact that there is a long tube probably prevents the parent from sucking too forcefully.
Babies are expensive. We just bought a humidifier for her room last night and now I want this fancy Norwegian mucous collector? Gees. I guess we just love you that much, Scout.
posted by Unkempt Mommy at 12:30 PM
3 Comments:
Interesting! A Neti Pot for a baby, essentially. Very cool. Neti pots really help out, at least for me. :)
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Ok, how happy does that little babe look with it's mama sucking the snot out if it's little nosey? I'm sorry, but as the mama of a 5 and a 6 year old, they are NEVER that happy while you are performing mucous removal techniques on them, at any age. Otherwise, it looks like a wonderful device.
I've tried it and it's definitely worth the money. The design is exact -- so it's quick and pretty painless.
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