Mariella has a little snot up her nose, I have been unsuccessful in sucking the snotty stuff out of there. She doesn’t appear to be uncomfortable with it, and the pediatrician checked her out and she is fine. She just has a boogie or two in there and I guess I am too scared to stick that suction thing too far up her nasal passage way! Pat bought me some her some saline spray to loosen up the mucus so I can suck it out a little better. I put in on the kitchen counter next to the other little baby things.
Well… scared to use the mist too.. I let a couple days go by since it wasn’t affecting her, I just thought she would sneeze it out or something. (which she did once before)
mistake, yeah I know
It is morning… 9ish… I am holding Wee Baby in the kitchen heating up a bottle. It is quiet and we just woke up. The bottle is almost done, I open the kitchen drawer to get a towel so I can wipe the steam off the bottle. I grab the towel as I was talking to Mariella, “good morning sugar poo!” ” did you have a good nap?” She went to talk and make some morning ohhs and ahhhs and as she did, some snotty stuff must have went in her throat. She did an eyes closed – noses scrunched – mouth open – gaggy thing – and she didn’t take a breath. My immediate response was to reach for the saline mist to squirt up there to loosen the snot so she could swallow it or cough it up.. ? As I reached for the saline mist, I closed the kitchen drawer with my hip, I caught her little foot it the drawer. So now she can’t breath and she is flailing her arms and legs all over the place because her mommy hurt her foot and she still needs to swallow or cough up a lump of snot.
I have the mist, pop off the clear top and do you see that little white top?? I tried to remove it too. I pulled… I pinched… I grabbed a steak knife and tried to slice it off.. Mariella is still jerking and flailing all over the place… “damn this plastic is thick” one handed, trying to use a knife, too risky, I got halfway through the cap.. it is now jagged and sliced up. “this is f**king ridiculous!” I throw the knife across the counter… back to the towel drawer to get the scissors… I chopped the tip off with the scissors.
Finally I got the damn cap off!!!
Freaked out, scared, using saline for the first time ever (for myself or baby) I give the bottle a test squirt. I pressed the trigger and saline shot up and hit the ceiling! “OH MY GOD What the hell? this is not right! Saline mist MY ASS!” arghhhhhhhhhh helppppppppppppppp meeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!
I have some saline drops in her bedroom…. so I run down the hallway to her room… laid her on her changing table… and successfully put a few drops in each nostril. By this time, I think all the flailing and jerking movements from me running down the hallway knocked the snot down and out of the way. She was happy and content laying there, and I was in tears from all the terror and chaos of the last 60 seconds.
You probably already know that there is no “white cap” on the saline mist bottle. The way you see it is the way it is supposed to be. In my panic, I thought I had to cut the top off to release the saline solution. You know, like cutting the tip off of a tube of super glue, or a rubber silicon tube. My brain just thought, get the white cap off so the spray will come out!
I can laugh now! So can Pat, he nearly busted a gut when he came home and pressed the trigger on the saline mist bottle and saw the saline shoot up 6 feet.
Tags: funny, learning, mommy, Wee Baby Girl
Welcome into the beautiful world of being a mom,as she get’s older you will have a lot of hair raising things going on. You are doing a GREAT JOB.Love you
Thanks mom! The next hair raising thing can take its sweet time getting here. I am in no hurry! lol
Good thing you tested it first!!!!
good thing is right! Lol I would have sprayed her little brain!