You know, I've been thinking tonight about Ella. She has a nasty cold, and it really has to suck to be a baby with a cold. All she wants out of life is to just suck her damn thumb and go to sleep, but she can't. Everytime she eagerly slips her tiny pink thumb into her mouth and starts to contentedly suck away, the picture of perfect blisss, her moment of peace is abruptly destroyed by the startling lack of air when she tries to breathe in through her plugged-up nose. Damn. That's like having to pee really badly, and you just get a good stream going when all of a sudden someone busts down the door and you have to try to stop and grasp frantically at your pants. It's just not natural. I think we take complete peeing for granted, just like we take being able to breathe out of our noses for granted.
Also, she can neither blow her nose nor snort all the goodies down her throat. I have to suck the snot out for her with the bulb of torture, while HOLDING HER ARMS DOWN. The only way she can express her frustration is to cry, which also hurts because she has a sore throat from having to breathe through her mouth all the time.
That pretty much sucks and blows. Poor baby Ella, Mommy understands.
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HA! We called it the snotty-sucker and the girls HATED it. I tried on my self to see what all the fuss was about and holy shit did it tickle. I cried a little, too.
Poor little mite!
Poor sweet thing! I think baby colds are the worst! Get better soon baby Ella.
Hope she's able to breathe normally again soon, I feel for you both!!
That poor little girl. We've had sick kids around here a lot lately and I always feel guilty when I take meds for the accompanying cold that I catch.
We're FINALLY all better this week but when they were super snotty, we'd sit in the steamy bathroom with them to loosen up the snot before sucking it out.
Ohhh The things we do for our kids.
Thought I'd drop a note to let you know I tuned into your blog!
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