You are now four days old and your mom and I have been enjoying every moment of the exhausting roller coaster ride that is having a newborn.
Among the sounds, fusses, and daily movements we've been dealing with, is the occasional bout of hiccups. Most newborns suffer from hiccups due to stimulation of their diaphragms. There's no real way to prevent it, you just kind of have to deal. For a couple of days we had trouble figuring out how to help you with your hiccups... until Grandma Betty showed up.
She gave us the old Ecuadorian solution of taking a little piece of paper, putting mom's saliva on it, and placing it on your forehead. It works!
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| Chicken Nugget with the hiccup cure |
Sure it looks a little funny, but it makes you feel better. Every time you've gotten the hiccups, we've put the little spit paper on your forehead and every single time, they go away within seconds.
As you get older you're either going to find the above picture really cute or really embarrassing - either way, never doubt the magic powers of a little bit of mommy's spit.
Eternally yours,
Tu papa
Note: I'm not sure that this hiccup cure is exclusively Ecuadorian, it just happened to be passed down by my Ecuadorian family.
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OMG! This is fabulous. A coworker's husband has had hiccups for days. And an Ecudorian coworker says, "Try this, lick and put a piece of paper on his head!" Then ANOTHER coworker overhears her and says, "Yes! When I lived in Ecuador that's what we did for the kids!" Then I googled your site and we were all laughing over the cute picture!
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