Moms are snot gross!

Everyone knows that babies are messy and that upon becoming a parent there will be drool, vomit, pee, and poop with which to contend, but I don’t think anyone considers the snot. Maybe it’s because babies come from the hospital complete with a nasal aspirator and one assumes that with that no one has to touch a single snotty thing. One would be wrong.

Sometimes babies sneeze and snot flies forth like projectile vomit. Sometimes while they sleep, snot gets rubbed all over their face and sometimes their sinuses get so backed up it coats their eyelashes. Sometimes toddlers like to multi task. At around fifteen months, Sophia discovered that when she sucks her thumb her index finger only need to be extended and it fits perfectly in the nostril. She would pull out little boogies and not even know it sometimes.

A few months ago at dinner Sophia had a boogie just above her top lip. Kurt was eating when he noticed and called it to my attention. I hadn’t sat down yet so I went over and without hesitation picked it off her face with my fingers. “Eeeww, mom’s are gross!” Kurt said. I went to the trash and flicked it off then washed my hands before sitting down to eat. What’s the big deal? After being shit on a little boogie is nothing.

I guess Sophia noticed that I picked a boogie off her face because a few days later she came up to hand me something small from between her fingers. Usually I get bits of paper so I took it without any thought. It was a little baby boogie. I’ll treasure it always honey…Where’s the trash can? Don’t worry the trash doesn’t go out for few days.

Sophia is getting over a cold she had last week. The first night as always, we didn’t think to turn on her humidifier and the next morning we had the snot face to contend with. Unlike her colds last year, this year Sophia has REALLY long hair. She had the ends of a thin lock inhaled into her nose and over the night her mucus membranes worked overtime to seal the lock in place. When she was younger, I would simply use a washcloth and warm water to loosen up all the dried snotty goodness. This time I gave the hair a tug and out came the snot cork. Getting the snot out of the hair and keeping it out is a completely different story.

Last night Sophia’s fever spiked to 102. We called a 24hr nurse line. Kurt made the call and I was nursing Sophia at the time. He gave a little info and then hung up. What the? “They’ll call back.” In between that time Sophia finished nursing and promptly threw up everything she just ate all over me. Ever had a milk bath?…In your own milk?

The nurse called back and basically said not to treat the low 100.4 fever (oops) but to go ahead and give Sophia another dose of Tylenol because it had been seven hours since the last dose and she was now at 102. She gave us some tips on how to make Sophia a little more comfortable, like how to clear her nose with saline, and I guess a little humidifier is next on our things to purchase for baby list.

She threw up on me one more time last night. I had to change her and myself one more time and then try to sleep knowing I had baby puke all over my stomach and legs. ACK!

This morning I noticed another tooth on the little nipple gnasher. This one is on top. That’s probably what caused the low grade fever all day yesterday. Oh and that “pink eye” was gone the next day. That doctor was an idiot. Whoever heard of pink eye clearing up in a day? I was right, her sinuses were just backed up. Stupid doctor.