Poor little Jonah. The winter cold has gotten to his little button nose. It's made the past couple weeks tough for him. The worst part of Jonah's day is when I have to blow his little nose. He absolutely despises it! I probably have to suction Jonah's nose about 5 times a day. I dread doing it to him. This morning I was holding him as I picked up the nasal aspirator and he went from smiling to screaming as soon as he saw the device. I then realized that he now recognizes when the torture is coming. Oh! I can't stand doing this awful chore to my son! I don't want him to be traumatized and view me as an enemy! What gets me through is that I know he can breathe when I'm finished. Anyway, the cute part of the whole thing is in between each "suction session" . Jonah breathes super fast, with his nose and eyes scrunched as he attempts to get rid of the snot on his own. I was able to record his breathing technique.
I just found an electric baby nasal aspirator online. I'm tempted to buy it, maybe it will make the job easier to do. It even plays songs to distract your baby from knowing whats going on.. but for some reason I don't believe that playful music is going to make the experience any more enjoyable for Jonah. It will most likely just turn any of his other toys with music into a feeling of fear and hate.
5 comments:
I would try saline nose drops. Luke hated the nasal aspirator too. Or teach Jonah how to blow his nose. (Good luck with that.)
Ya I use saline before the nasal aspirator. It would be awesome if Jonah could blow his own nose! I'll start trying!!
That is so cute to see him sniffle like that. I think every kid hates the snot sucker! It is great when they can blow their own nose!
Poor kid...I would hate doing that! Caitlin, your blog is so cute, you need to teach me how you did your backround. Post a comment on my blog how you did it. I am going crazy learning how to do this whole blog thing!
I can't believe how big he's getting! He's such a cute baby.... usually when you see other babies your like "aww he's cute, but not as cute as mine" but Jonah is sooo stinkin cute he's up there with all of my boys! Yeah we call Cindy Mimi. I'm glad there is other Mimi's out there cause I thought it was kinda weird at first!
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