OMG! So I get this holler from the kitchen from Pete to help him as i'm trying to nurse baby girl. I sigh and think you have one, deal with it already! Try having two ALL day long, hee hee hee.
I pop poor baby girl off, put her in the bassinet and truck on out to the kitchen to find... ready for this... a "PEA" lodged up Nate's nose!!! I just about hit the floor laughing, oh god I'm a bad parent but oh come on you have to laugh as you hear of it but I never knew it could REALLY happen. Well the only thing I can think of is to plug the nostrail and put my mouth over his littl nose and suck that pea right on out! HA HA HA, well the joke was on me! All I could think was please god don't let the pea enter my mouth! YUCK! Worst case a trip to the ER would do it. SO I try and man it was like trying to suck a basketball through a garden hose! No frigin luck, *sigh. I call the Newborn Hotline (aka the BC Nurses Line) and after a few minutes of trying to give information between my bouts of laughter she walks me though how I really should do it, not like what i was doing! SO just incase you ever come across a dinner date who jams a pea up their nose for fun, this is what you do;
1. plug the non blocked nose
2. puff short bursts of air in their mouth (not to hard)
3. wait for a pea to come flying out (you hope)
This is called the kissing technique. Well Nate has a freak out and the Pea is now missing, OH GOD! Did he suck it up further up his nose as he was crying??? I sit him up and think, ER here we come. The nurse on the phone is awaiting my return with my results. Well there is a pea lying on the change table! Is that it or is that a stray from his clothes? Quick Pete get the flashlight! Well nothing that I can see but red fleshy nostrail.
I report back to the nurse that we got it out! WOO HOO!
I almost want to keep the pea as a keep sake, HA HA HA. Poor Nate, now I refer to him as "pea nose" so long to "Peanut" ;)
