to believe that feeding a 2 month old baby bottles of chamomile tea is not the best of ideas?

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According to SIL it is

Yep...as long as they're not replacing a milk feed with it, and there's no sugar or honey added, I don't think it's that bad an idea at all. but, as others have said, only if unsettled.
My sister lived in germany for a whiole, and i remember her giving her DDs chamomile and fennel tea......i think they were from a tub of granules (i was v young as well at the time).

I also used chamomile tea for DS1 who was a colicky and very hard to settle baby. I used it at about 9 weeks old.

It never replaced a milk feed and is not harmful.

should be fine

in spain you buy special baby infusions of fennel, chamomile etc for colic. very popular

Thanks for your feedback! Like others here, I only breastfed dd so have no experience - but SIL is bottlefeeding. I just panicked at the idea of her son being fed anything but milk at such a young age. The tea was to 'settle his stomach' as he had 'the runs', but I am suspicious even of extra water at such a young age - as I said, dd was breastfed and I only ever gave her breastmilk even in the hottest weather until she was 6 months old.

However, I have just read an article stating that feeding a baby under six months water should be strictly off-limits because of the dangers of water intoxication - I guess chamomile tea too! www.mindfood.com/at-drink-water-baby-feed-family-health-seizure.seo

I've never heard that you shouldn't give babies water before. Seems very strange. Neither of mine had anything apart from bm before six months, but I thought it was OK in hot weather for a ff baby.

It is common in Spain, although I have never done it. My Austrian friend does it.