
One TikTok mom is blowing up the internet — no pun intended — with a viral video showing her secret snot-sucking method. Warning: It’s not for the faint-hearted. Whitney Leavitt, 32, who is known as @whitleavitt on the social media app, is a Utah MomTok star famous for microblogs featuring her sons, her husband, and her booty-shaking dances.
“This is how I get Liam’s boogies out,” Whitney explained in a recent TikTok video before placing her mouth over her 6-month-old son’s nose, sucking the snot into her mouth, and spitting it out.
Whitney captioned the video, 'it's okay you can if you need to.'
"I did this in front of my friends and family not thinking anything of it," Whitney said in her video. "They literally were like dry heaving."
"you’re kidding," read her video's top comment, which was posted by TikTok user @brookexaloura, summing it up quite simply.
"I love my children, but absolutely not. Hard pas[s],” commented Dr. Bonnie Soto.
Another TikTok user agreed, writing simply, "NOOOOOO." Just beneath, someone else wrote, “never doing this. Idc how much I love my kid.”
Most TikTokers creating duets agree: Whitney’s method is a total gross-out.
"No, no, that’s gross," said one TikToker's video posted alongside the original. Looking horrified, she put her hand over her mouth. “I’d be barfing too.”
Another TikToker titled her duet “Snot smoothie?” and while Whitney, uh, sucks snot, she mouthed, “No, no, no,” before making a face like she’s about to vomit and (presumably) running for the toilet. “@whitleavitt [you're] not serious??? #babysnot,” read her caption.
“I will not suck snot out of their nose. My stomach ain’t made like that,” shared another TikTok user. She captioned her stitch, “I can’t do it yall .” One of her commenters said, “Only if it’s a life or death situation.” The video’s creator agreed: “Yes, definitely.”
Of course, some people claim it’s normal.
Kya Jeub, another MomTokker, gave Whitney’s method a try and stitched the result. “Oh my God, it worked!” she said after she sucksed her baby’s snot into her mouth and spit it from her front porch. “I think I just passed away,” one commenter wrote.
“It’s the BEST WAY! I was raised like this!” another person said in her duet with Whitney, flashing a thumbs-up. She titled her video “Would you do this for your kid?” And “no,” replies one of her commenters.
Others shared that it's not that unusual. “Yeah, my mom used to do this for me,” one person claimed, and even on Whitney’s original video, someone asked, “Omg this is normal lol idk why you people are making such a big deal?”
There’s another way to get out that snot.
One TikTok user simply dueted herself making a face and holding up a Nosefrida. “NoseFrida please. Does the same with no snot in your mouth. But whatever works for you. ,” she captioned her microblog.
In a comment, she replied, “I am giving her all the respect. I’m not that good of a mom to do that. .” But another commenter simply wrote, “I threw up.”
Other people pointed out that Whitney’s method could be dangerous.
“You can get sick,” one video title reads. And that’s a definite benefit of the Nosefrida, or really anything other than Whitney’s method: not ingesting a child’s germs, which could make you very ill if, for example, your child had something like RSV, which Whitney’s son Liam came down with in January.
He wound up in the hospital, where Whitney created a firestorm of controversy by filming a dance video while he was hooked up to oxygen.
Dance videos aside, because boogers and snot trap bacteria, slurping them up isn’t a great idea. Doing so exposes you to whatever’s causing them in the first place. As one TikToker captioned her stitch with Whitney, “mam. Respectfully no.”