When they are sick...the common cold

I would go with what works for now, I am sure they say they don't form habits till approx 3 months and habits are always easier to break when they are so little anyway. I know how miserable I can feel with a cold so I am sure little ones feel so much worse (except for a man with man flu of course ) and so doing anything that makes them feel better would be the way I would go.

My DD is nearly 10 months old and has just had her first cold and then another almost straight afterwards (I had it at the same time as well). I went with whatever kept her happy and comfortable. One thing I found really helped was a vapouriser & once we could no longer borrow that we used a crockpot with the lid off and a bit of vicks in it, don't know if this is okay for such a young baby but worked wonders for DD's breathing at night.

Hope she gets better soon and you do too.

Ava got her first cold at abour 1 or 2 weeks old I think it was and was only sleeping 2 hours the whole night and screaming the rest (coincided with reflux tho).

I just did whatever, made sure the head of the bed was raised, that she was warm and put saline drops in her nose to make her sneeze before every feed. She dropped down to 20-30ml per feed (was having 60-80 at that stage) and was just really groggy so I was a bit worried as I was on my own.

The joys of having daycare kids as well eh?!

(And I swear by the saline drops, 1tsp of salt in cooled boiled water, then syringe 2-3 drops into each nostril before a feed, squeeze her nose and try to get her to sneeze)

ETA: sorry, re the sleeping thing I wouldn't worry, just do what works. She may find sleeping with you at night more reassuring. Bad habits won't be formed, they don't start forming til at least 5 months.

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