h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Ay as well start as I mean to go on. So up at peppa pig O'clock after a night of very little sleep as I was being used as a pillow by the Mouseling who us full if the cold.

We all have the cold here, may as well paint a big red x on the door. *sniffle*

Mini

Morning mouse. Sorry about the cold, it's a bit of a fact of life for little children. Get well soon

A baby with a cold is heart-rending. I hope you all pull through soon.

Best wishes from the smugly childless

reddit

Just wait until you get the round of 'nits'

Hope the cold goes soon... I seem to have had one for about a month already...

On the upside - you get to use the snotsucker!

with getting over the cold,

the snotsucker produces disaster grade howls and as such is only used when absolutely necessary.

I even have to pin him down for calpol!

And the best.part us I'm nit allowed lemsip because I'm breastfeeding *sigh*

[Amy P]

A snotsucker? do I want* to know even, what that is?

How old is the wee mousling now, I always loose track of such things...

A snotsucker is a harmless-looking gadget - a rubber bubble with a silicone nozzle which fits into the baby's nostril. As they can't blow their noses yet, we, as parents, feel impelled to do it for them. You squeeze the "bubble" and gently put the nozzle up one nostril and hold the other one shut with your thumb. If possible the child's mouth should also be shut. Then you let go of the bubble and - theoretically - the snot gets sucked out of the baby's system.

Considering that you're doing them a favour, they make a helluva racket about it. But it is pretty scary, having both nostrils and your mouth blocked, and the feeling of having your brain sucked out is even worse, so I can quite understand them.

Don't forget to dismantle the snotsucker after use and rinse out well ready for the next time. If there is one.

Thanks for that, I was just eating lunch and idly surfing the Journals.

Of course, to use a snotsucker correctly, it helps to be an octopus. I never could get the tip into a nostril long enough to use the darn thing.

In those two sentences there must be enough inspiration for someone to outdo 'Fifty Shades of Grey'?

I might have to steal them for my NaNoWriMO

The mind boggles.

Then again, this *is* 2legs, so what else is new?