The Grossest Baby-Helping Product Ever. I Think.

Back in MY day, we got the snot out of our baby's noses the natural way.  God's way. 

By taking a little blue plastic ball thing, and putting the pointy part up our kid's nose, and using air pressure to suck the goobers right out of there. 

We didn't have all these fancy Swedish products things.  Our neighbors tell us it "works great".  They cost $15.

We love our neighbors.  But...gross. 

Urgh. 

Comments

[Amy]

I have to agree. The question coming to my mind is "WHY??!!" That little blue ball thing works so well!! If it ain't broke don't fix it!!

[Talley]

Um, OK I'm a pediatric nurse and we use a suction thingy to suck out the boogies from poor congested babes, but it's attached to a WALL of suction, NOT my mouth! What if it backs up to far into the mouth? GROSS!!!! I'm with you Brant, EWWWW!!!!

Talley, RN

[Alexandra]

What in the Gimini Crickets?!?!?! Scary. :)

[tricia]

the blue plastic suction thing comes free @ the hospital too. and there is no chance of spontaneously vomiting on my new baby.

[Brant]

I'm with you people.

I'm also sorry I grossed everybody out this morning.

I did hear from some nurses who said it's actually no big deal.

Remind me not to be a nurse.

[Monica Battaile]

I am officially going to gag ALL DAY from this one...

[RevJeff]

OUR little girl will be taught the "old school" - "KJV" way... "Pick it and share it"

[Steven]

My wife is Jamaican, and I've heard stories from her family that in the "old days" when they didn't have the blue ball thingie to remove the buggies, they would suck them out with there mouths.

YUMMY!!!

[Mike Taylor]

I can't tell you how weird this looks from over here in Britain. Here in the land of Real Beer, we let babies deal with their own bogies (or else ignore them). It's a fine system with an ancient pedigree, and it's produced Shakespeare, Churchill and Bobby Moore.

[Danae Pick]

Omigosh, now THAT is the grossest thing i've ever seen, do you eat your baby's snot? GAG!!!!! EWWWW!

[Taeya]

I am a mother/baby nurse and also a mother of a 18 month old. I would never use something like that, very yucky!! The bulb syringe works well!!

[Boogie Patrol]

Um, you didn't give us the link to e able to buy this awesome invention....my kids have very stubborn boogers.

[Boogie Patrol]

WHERE can I find this? Please give us Booger Hunters the link.

[Boogie Patrol]

Bring it! Where's the link for me to purchase this amazing invention?

[Jon Swerens]

Might be a good way to eat a KFC bowl.

[Brant]

Sadly, I don't have the link.

I'm sure, though, if you googled "Sickeningly gross ways to remove baby snot" you'd hit gold.

[Pattie]

My children are all grown now so I would not be the one sucking snot but when they were babies even the little blue ball gagged me when I had to use it. GROSS.

[Jocelyn Figueroa]

EWWWWW! GROSSS! YUCK!! Who invented this? Thats a waiste of money, no offense.. I feel bad for the babys that have to go through that thing, you know? lol :]

-Jocelyn

[reebert]

Ha! I was looking for a site with the blue ball sucker things and came across this. You wanna know why the Swedes invented this? It's because they don't have the blue ball suckers. They have a white version that is shaped differently and doesn't work AT ALL. So, although, as any good American living in Sweden, I was totally grossed out by it, I did end up buying it the first time our son was so stuffed up he couldn't nurse. Just for the record, there is no chance of getting the snot in your mouth, it has a filter thing that guards against it. But still. It's pretty gross. haha