how to aspirate toddler?

Joes_love · October 2009

seriously, how are you supposed to do it? he won't blow his nose well enough to get it out and when i try to aspirate him he wipes his nose in my armpit and kickes me in the head!

papagena · October 2009

For whatever reason, DS likes it. Sorry - no good suggestions.

susangilchrist · October 2009

I've never done this but have heard about a technique. You sit on the floor with your legs out in front of you. You place your LO in between your knees laying down on his back, with his head in between your thighs so you can hold it in place and his arms out under your legs. You could also wrap your legs over his legs to avoid being kicked in the face. Make sense? Sounds a little rough, but I suppose you have to be sometimes to get the job done!

TCsbride · October 2009

I'm probably going to get the bad mommy of the year award for this, but we sneak up behind DS with a wet rag and like press down on the nostrils so it gets it all pushed out. Sorry, gross, i know! He wines for about two seconds and then goes back to playing. It works though. We have a lot of laundry to do when he's got a runny nose, but oh well. I'd rather have that then him wiping his nose EVERYWHERE. His new one is walking over to the couch and wiping his nose on it, SICK! Thank goodness we have microfiber and it wipes right off, but still, where the heck did he learn that?

crackerjackprinter · October 2009

Honestly DD doesn't mind as long as we do it in front of the bathroom mirror. So we hold her and do it. If she is still resistant we will do it to ourselves (pretend) and then she'll let us.

GladToBeMrs.SRS · October 2009

I'd do it just like I brush their teeth: Plop them on the changing table and essentially cover their body with mine until the task is done. Not in a mean way, of course. Firm, but in a gentle, forehead-rubbing, tickle-giving, I-mean-business sort of way.

TCsbride · October 2009

GladToBeMrs.SRS:
I'd do it just like I brush their teeth: Plop them on the changing table and essentially cover their body with mine until the task is done. Not in a mean way, of course. Firm, but in a gentle, forehead-rubbing, tickle-giving, I-mean-business sort of way.

Haha! Now I find this funny because as much as DS hates having his nose clean, he LOVES brushing his teeth and washing his hands for whatever reason. His new favorite is learning to spit so we can switch over to regular toothpaste. He wants to do it after every meal b/c that is what my hubby does. And OF COURSE he wants to be just like hubby.

As for me, he has to put lotion on his face every morning, deoderant under his arms and a squirt of purfume. I hope he doesn't get beat up when he goes to preschool and it's a good thing I don't wear makeup....hehe!

suzymarie · October 2009

DS's newest thing is to shoot the saline drops up his nose. He gets pissed if I don't let him do it.

He doesn't mind me aspirating him, but his nostrils are too big for our snot sucker- I can't get good suction.

smurfetteinred · October 2009

TCsbride:
As for me, he has to put lotion on his face every morning, deoderant under his arms and a squirt of purfume. I hope he doesn't get beat up when he goes to preschool and it's a good thing I don't wear makeup....hehe!

AHAHAHAHA - that's awesome! And my ds is in a 'learn to spit' kind of place too. I let him stand on a stool at the sink while I brushed my teeth the other day and he thought that was great. He walked up to me while I was holding A yesterday and 'spit' on her (he doesn't actually spit just makes a pfft noise). That doesn't bode well does it?

suzymarie · October 2009

Ds pretends to spit the toothpaste but nothing ever comes out of his mouth.

The kid is going to be 10 before he can use flouride toothpaste!

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