Gaviscon help

[bigkidsmademe]

DS has just been diagnosed with reflux and I have some gaviscon to give him. He is bf but I do express for DH to do nightfeeds.

Anyway, tonight is the first gaviscon night and tomorrow we're off to a hotel for 5 nights for DH's work. We have a kettle but no microwave in the room so I'm worried about sterilising the gaviscon stuff - spoon, syringe etc. and obviously couldn't pump some milk as I couldn't sterilise the pump.

I am a bit worried about it - what is the easiest way to give it to a bf baby, does the mixing bit all need to be sterile? Is a syringe or spoon the only way? Is this all feasible in a hotel with no steriliser?

thanks!

You could go and buy some milton tablets and a tupperware box or similar and cold water steralise. Takes 15 mins and no need to rinse.

I found trying to syringe the 15ml into my ds's mouth was a nightmare as he would just spit it out. If I was giving a breast feed we would make up the 15ml and put it in a bottle to administer, by the time he had realised what we had given him he had already swallowed it!

We used a syringe but only mixed with 3 ml of water not 15ml.

I agree with the Milton idea, just make up in a mug or whatever and stick the spoon/syringe in. Same goes for the pump if you want. You don't actually need to sterilise pump/bottles if just for bm, just wash in hot soapy water/dishwasher, though I appreciate that using Milton might be easier than this in a hotel.

I think as long as you really scrub the spoon it will be fine, especially if only breastmilk.

Can you get anything by hand-expressing? Might be a realtively fast way to get enough to mix with gaviscon. If your baby's really young I would go for a syringe as the spoon is likely to be quite difficult for the baby to deal with. The ones from a baby neurofen packet are good as they have a big hole and gaviscon's quite gloopy.

Milton! What a great idea, I'd completely forgotten about that. Then I could mix it with boiled water from the kettle and give it in a bottle or on a little spoon.

I am rubbish at hand expressing! He's 12 weeks now though and licks calpol off the spoon like a cat so I'm hoping the spoon will be ok.

thanks everyone