>Basically healthy babies
>deal with their colds and congestion very well, and snotty noses cure
>themselves quite nicely...you don't need to poke around, really, do you???

I used to clear my pre-crawling babies' stuffy noses by putting them on
their stomachs on the floor.  Both of them hated that position, and would
struggle and snuffle and snort though a sort of frustrated combat crawl,
leaving a nice snail trail on the floor and a clearer nose on the baby.

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL  Ithaca, NY