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Newborn Breathing
Are All Those Little Noises Normal?
By Melinda Copp
When your baby has excess mucous in his sinuses, one or two drops of saline nose drops in each nostril to break up the congestion and a little puff from the bulb syringe should do the trick.
To use this device properly, you should position the baby on your lap with his head by your knees. Squeeze the bulb syringe to create a vacuum, then stick it into the baby's nostril, tilt it back about 45 degrees toward the back of baby's head and release the bulb. Then repeat in the other nostril.
"Don't use the bulb syringe more than four times a day," says Jennifer Walker, a pediatric nurse and co-founder of Moms on Call, an Atlanta-based infant care consulting service with clients around the country. "And the best time to use the bulb syringe is right before a feeding and right before bed."
If your baby is well, then a bulb syringe should clear up the excess mucous and alleviate some of the breathing noises.
In most cases, noisy breathing is just a normal part of your baby being so new and little. But it can be more serious.
"My son Ian was born six weeks early at 5 pounds, 5 ounces," says Nancy Sayles Kaneshiro, a mom from Woodland Hills, Calif., and co-author of the book Baby: An Owner's Manual (Beaufort Books, 2007). She says his nose was so runny and his breathing so noisy when he ate that he sounded like a pg. "I thought he had a cold, but it turned out to be seasonal allergies that plague him to this day," she says.
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