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Baby Snot
BillieTheBot
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This question is following a disturbing discussion the girls in my class and I had last ethical issues class. They say that if a baby has a blocked nose then your ment to suck out the snot. Now I say babies have months just like big people and they can use it to breath with. They seem to think that its perfectly normal to suck on a babies nose and then spit out the snot. To me its just stomach turning and I spent the whole of that discussion almost throwing up.
Am I the only one that thinks this is gross!!
Am I the only one that thinks this is gross!!
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Yeah, apparently some people do that. But most sensible people take their kids to the hospital and have a machine suck it out instead.
I read it in Angela's Ashes, and I was like OMFG NO WAY. But, it was the early 40s in Limerick.
Yeah, but babies don't know when their tummies are full and that's usually why they throw up after feeding. So, babies won't have the mentality to breathe through their mouths if they're really, really young and thick.
Babies are probably the stupidest form of creature if you think about it hard enough....
Too cute to resist though
Ahh, of course! Little rosy chubby cheeks, tiny rosy lips and big blue eyes and wee wisps of hair. AHHH! SO bonny.
Yeah I know, but babies don't have the mentality to breathe through their mouths early on..
"Nose
Because newborns tend to breathe through their noses and their nasal passages are narrow, small amounts of nasal fluid or mucus can cause them to breathe noisily or sound congested even when they don't have a cold or other problem. Talk with your baby's doctor or health care provider about the use of salt-water nose drops and a bulb syringe to help clear the nasal passages if necessary. "
From - http://kidshealth.org/parent/pregnancy_newborn/pregnancy/newborn_variations.html
ETA - Well, not mentality perse, but their respiratory system isn't developed as best as it can be because they really relied on an umbilical cord and stuff.
which is preferable to sucking snot out :sour:
That's the plan!
As for sucking snot out :yuck: most parents i know of use cotton buds to try and clear the entrance of babies nostrils :yes:
The natural instict to survive means that babies will breather through their mouth. To help them though, you can use saline drops. Worth noting that this was the first sugegstion of my GP. Never even considered sucking snot.
BTW Tissues are useful too you know!
You're apolosing to people who are thick...? :eek2:
Oh for God's sake, you goon. I know babies aren't thick. I just said babies are thick in jest because they don't know any better that young, and by young I mean 3 months old MAXIMUM.