Mum's Stomach-Churning Tip For Unblocking Baby's Nose

A mum has shared her fail-safe tip to unblocking her baby’s nose – but it comes with a warning. If you’re squeamish, it will probably make you want to vomit. Seriously.

Whitney Leavitt shared a video of her demonstrating the stomach-churning tip, which has now had almost seven million views. The tip is simple and quick, but only if you don’t have a weak disposition.

“This is how I get Liam’s boogies out. I did this in front of my friends and family, not thinking anything of it,” Whitney explains in the video. “They literally were dry heaving.”

@whitleavittit’s okay you can ???? if you need to♬ original sound – Whitney Leavitt

All Whitney does is place her nose over her baby’s mouth and sucks out the gunk. She then spits it out. Genius, huh?! She even demonstrated the technique on her toddler in another video.

@whitleavitt Reply to @thisissavvy ♬ original sound – caden

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Of course, if you can’t face sucking your baby’s snot out of the nose, there is another way! Snot suckers are an easy (and completely non-stomach churning) way to clean baby’s nose of snot and mucus.

Or you could always try the completely hands-off option and go for a steam vaporiser or humidifier in baby’s room!

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35 Comments

- - Lividanke said
  - 29 Aug 2024
    3:59 pm
I know some other Mum’s from my mother’s group who used to do this but it wasn’t something I was comfortable doing myself.

- - meedee said
  - 28 Aug 2024
    10:07 am
I have heard of this but never performed it myself.

- - Ellen said
  - 22 Jul 2024
    4:28 am
i’m quite confident this was common practice back in the olden days
- Ellen replied
  
  22 Jul 2024 , 4:29 am
  I was happy to use a snot pump or snot sucker
- - mom489365 said
  - 03 Sep 2022
    7:28 pm
My ex did that once and it looked gross. The next day I bought a hand held squeezing thing to suck the snot out. Easy fix.

- - Mad Bean said
  - 03 Sep 2022
    7:14 pm
I would be dry heaving too.

- - Zmijka86 said
  - 14 Jun 2022
    5:36 pm
Thank you but no…i have one which you are attaching to vacuum cleaner…its the best

- - mom461384 said
  - 05 Jun 2022
    8:52 pm
????????
I occasionally struggle with the aspirator just knowing what I am doing!

- - mom321588 said
  - 01 Jun 2022
    8:07 am
I think boogers and mucous are the least of the problem here, the germs in one’s mouth are more worrisome! If this floats your boat, maybe try an infant nasal aspirator, they work a treat.

- - Jessica said
  - 17 May 2022
    11:35 am
Super gross! I couldn’t imagine doing that! Just use a snot sucker!

- - Mum2archer said
  - 14 May 2022
    10:31 pm
YUCK! Nope, I couldnt do that. Turns my stomach just thinking about it

- - tessie said
  - 14 May 2022
    1:58 pm
Had to read this a couple of times and still couldn’t work it out. Maybe a typo? How can you put your nose over your baby’s mouth and suck the gunk out. I definitely couldn’t do this because I’m very squeamish. Actually dry heaving just writing it down without watching it being done. I know we’d do anything for our kids but this is one thing I could not do

- - mom101628 said
  - 11 May 2022
    3:20 pm
Well, I never needed to do this with any of my children, just wiped their noses and that seemed to work well. Think I’ll pass on this method.

- - rovermum said
  - 11 May 2022
    12:52 pm
I’m sorry, I couldn’t read this past the heading because I know what the story is about. Retching right now.

- - Frankiielot said
  - 10 May 2022
    10:25 pm
My husband told me his aunty used to do this with her kids.
I personally wouldn’t do it as I don’t think it’s very hygienic but each to their own.

- - BadMamaJamma85 said
  - 10 May 2022
    5:06 pm
No judging here because ya know what I did the exact same thing with mine. And it worked a treat! Lol!! Yes their muccus goes into your mouth, but hey just spit it out. Did the trick for my kids, and yes they would cry followed by calming cuddles and kisses and that’s BadMammaJamma for ya.

- - sars_angelchik said
  - 10 May 2022
    1:24 pm
I think I just threw up in my mouth! I tried a nose frida and it had my friends and rellies freaked (and wasn’t that great to use, in the end we just settled for a more traditional boogie sucker.

- - sharna_booth_weinrowski said
  - 10 May 2022
    1:05 pm
eww ewww eww no no no no i just cannot

- - mom74252 said
  - 10 May 2022
    11:10 am
Request for those choosing to use the aspirator or another similar device. Please DO NOT clear the appliance by squirting contents into the air, as I saw one woman do at an airport !!! Now THAT is really DISGUSTING.

- - mom485263 said
  - 10 May 2022
    10:59 am
It may work but eww.

- - Ellen said
  - 10 May 2022
    7:36 am
I didn’t use this method but had a snot pump (battery operated) and a snot sucker
- Ellen replied
  
  11 May 2022 , 7:36 am
  Probably back in the day when all the fancy tools weren’t around we have now, it was a pretty normal think to do