Hi everyone! My 1 year has been a congested baby since birth almost. She breathes through her mouth so often that it wakes her up multiple times at night and she cries and screams and then struggles to go back to sleep. She wakes up every 1-3 hours and sometimes can’t go back to sleep for 2-3 hours!!! Piriton is the only thing that seems to help her sleep mostly through the night but I can’t keep giving her that!!
Does anyone have tips as to have I can do or give her? Has anyone experienced? I have no idea when I’ll get an ENT appointment and I have no idea what he can give a 13 mo :( we are desperate for sleep so any tips are welcome!! We have tried steam inhalation, saline drops, vapour rubs and everything off the counter basically!
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Use saline drops in her nose before she sleeps and when she wakes up. This helps releases some of the mucus and helps ease her breathing a bit, but definitely ENT if a referral has been made start calling the directly to chase it or chase the doctor who did the referral.

When my LG gets particularly congested we end up using a saline spray to loosen the mucus and then using the frida snot sucker. We also have a vapour bubble bath and use klearvol capsules. Have you tried raising her slightly? We sometimes put a blanket under my LG's pillows so she's sleeping at a slight raised incline which helps when she's got a bad cold.