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Claire_Jones_3

We've all got the sniffles at the moment, so rubbish sleeps for the last few nights. It's hard enough trying to sleep with my nose all blocked and not being able to take anything useful like Sudafed for it, but I'm also being woken up every couple of hours by a snuffly baby who's finding it hard to settle. I hate colds. :mad: [/quote]

Dormouse: Have you tried using vicks vaparub? My mum always used to use it on us when we were younger and seemed to clear your airways and help you to breathe a bit easier:p

Dormouse

Claire_Jones wrote: »

Dormouse: Have you tried using vicks vaparub? My mum always used to use it on us when we were younger and seemed to clear your airways and help you to breathe a bit easier:p

I love Vicks I go to bed covered in it and it does help. For some reason, it says on it not for babies under 6 months though I'm not sure why not

I use Olbas oil as well, both in my bed and in Alex's cot, that helps a bit too. But I do wish I could take my normal stuff, like the nasal sprays - normally I swear by Boots own nasal spray. That's one disadvantage of BFing, not being able to take most medicines or drink too much (although that might be a good thing ).

jenpoptab

try snuffle babe, it's just like vicks but suitable from two or three months.

thanks for replies re; weaning will update you with sleep and weaning progress in the week.

Have a good week.

Jen xx

cha97michelle

I was going to suggest snuffle babe - definitely works on little tiddlers.

You can also try putting something like karvol on a hankie tied somewhere out of reach from the tiddler, like on the cot bars. Don't try this with older babies though who can sit or stand.

Becles

I've used Olbas Oil on Charlotte. I put a drop either on the top sheet when she's sleeping or on the chest of her babygro during the day, so the vapours waft up her nose.

It hasn't left a mark when the sheets/babygro's were washed, but I'd still not put it on something decent that I would mind if there was a mark on it!

purplepatch

It's really quite an unpleasant invention and goodness knows Izzy detests me doing it, but I bought this aspirator (review here) and it really helped with her most recent cold where she was unbelievably snotty. It's suitable from birth. And no, you don't get any baby snot in your mouth!

I also use a sudafed vapour plug in her room and that seems to make quite a difference. It says it's for babies over 3 months.

Also, not convinced this made any difference, but one of DH's colleagues told him that vicks vaporub rubbed sparingly into the soles of the feet stops them coughing. I figured it was worth a try and she definitely coughed less, but possibly the cough was on its way out anyway

Js_Other_Half

Another family coughing and spluttering here. DS has been given Medised and his parents are on the the night nurse!

I posted it on a separate thread, but http://www.sasaslings.co.uk/ has 4 pairs of baby legs for £21 - free delivery. I got him a pair of cow print ones, as well as some skull and crossbones...rofl.
They arrived the day after I had placed the order. DS is now cruising furniture, so I am trying to leave him bare footed. At least I can be sure his legs are warm even if his feet aren't.

Curious_George_2

when my DD was too little for vicks directly onto her skin, i used to get an old tupperware tub (or something similar like a marge tub that i didnt mind throwing out) and put some boiling water in it and one teaspoon of vicks into it and put it just under her cot,
the vicks melts in the water and releases all those lovely tube clearing vapours and they waft up to her,
the only problem is whats left in that tub in the morning, like congealed menthol earwax! not nice.... (hence using a tub you dont mind chucking!)

I also used to put a few books under the head end of the cot so she wasnt laying completely flat, that helped with...umm... drainage!

in other news.... we changed Dannys milk yesterday (again! the poor kid... from breast milk from the boob, to expressed in a bottle, to sma gold and now aptimil, all in 2 1/2 weeks!!!)
and he is MUCH better, drinking at least 2oz per feed compared to the 1 we were struggling to get into him, he seems to be hungry more often and his wind and stomach pains seem much better too (and his poo doesnt look like green/brown jelly anymore)

he is still not on the 'regulation' amount, but seems happy with what he is getting... hopefully we shall see some improvement in his weight when we see the HV on tuesday

Snaggles

CG, I'm so glad you are seeing a bit of improvement, that's fantastic news. :T

SusanCarter

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Can I be nosy and ask who decided you need to be monitored? I'm not going into detail but things are so incredibly !!!! here yet no one is interested and I feel expected to just 'deal with it'. My health visitor saw my twice and I think that's it, and the women in the baby clinic didn't even manage to make eye contact with me!

My health visitor did a questionaire with me at 12 weeks when she came to talk about weaning which was obviously to detect PND. She told me she'd done it with me at one month as well (which I pointed out she hadn't as she'd not seen me due to being off sick) so I guess that's the standard round here. Like someone else said, you can always call the health visitor (or see the doctor) if you think there's a problem.

I think the weights on nappies are just guidelines so if your baby fits them they're fine. Personally Alice has really fat thighs so ends up in bigger nappies for her weight. She's 18lb but the 22-30lb plastic pants are so tight on her legs that we've gone for the 30lb+ ones which are okay on her legs but really baggy on the waist.