how to land your kid in therapy

so totally ordered. but yeah I used to know a Polish family who was like "what's wrong with American mothers? why don't they suck out their babies' snot?" --strict mouth-to-nose, eliminating the middleman. and I guess there are claims about shared beneficial flora et al for that kinda thing but then again all home-remedy type stuff comes with all kindsa claims.

we have a nosefrida, tbh i don't really think its any better than the bulb. the kid certainly doesn't have a preference, she hates either.

feel like i don't have much input re: sickness, our kid hasn't gotten that sick yet since she's at home most of the time, just a couple of colds. i will say that when she was in daycare for two weeks, she caught a cold which she then passed on to me that was pretty much the worst cold i've ever had, some kind of baby-only supercold that took me literally a month to completely shake. the kid never seemed that upset about it though, she'd be a little grouchy once in a while but was never miserable.

lol when I worked with kids I used to get The Supercold about once a season, just the unshakeable fuckin' A you little monsters are made of strong stuff flu of doom

The thing about little kids and colds and stuff is that the parents who sequester them and take extra precautions to maintain them sicky-poo free when they're tiny will eventually get their ass kicked when their kids get bigger and go to school and get totally sick all the time when it really counts. All kids get sick, but colds and even fevers are pretty par for the course. Build their resistance when they are young. The only thing I tend to avoid is other kids who have terrible coughs, not that I'm worried about my kids getting sick, per se, but because kids take weeks to get over a cough. Snot sucker is vital, btw, for all parents.

Anyway, aero, just be reasonable, wash hands, etc. Use common sense. Don't be afraid of sick people, but don't let them slobber all over the baby, either. And it's never too early to teach/adopt the so-called vampire cough.
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haha well as I mentioned my fear of sick people is an ongoing kinda deal - when I worked in hospitals & had sicktime I didn't have any such fear but when "calling in sick" = losing a lot of money one's relationship to illness changes

If you ever have a month off, go on a handshaking/doorknob-licking spree.

p sure the lil dude will be fine---he's got mom's immune system for about six months and then he's got to start paying his own immunological rent

basically quincie otm