gripe water - how?

[SalBySea]

how do you get gripe water into a screaming baby without drowning them?

I've tried using a little cup thing and he inhales it and spends ages coughing and spluttering and trying to catch his breath again

also tried a mother care dispenser dummy which was worse cause not only did it still go down the wrong way, but half of it also pours down his top as the thing spills (even if I have tightened it carefully)

help

I couldn't get it into ds2, so I added it to the milk and it worked fine.

Ds1 took it off a spoon from 8 weeks

Also use a syringe, and do just a tiny bit at a time. Buy a bottle of infant nurofen (you'll need it when teething kicks in) and use the syringe that comes with that.

or, put it in some water in a bottle

I used a syringe. (Buy from any chemist, a plastic kind for dispensing medicine to babies, not the kind with a needle, for injecting things!) Put about 1ml or 2ml in at a time, put the syringe right down the side of baby's cheek and release the liquid very slowly, letting them swallow before releasing more. Then repeat until you get at least 3 or 4 ml into them. It helps if you have somebody else to hold the baby.

It gets better, I promise! They realise after a few times that it helps and they calm down as soon as they taste it.

I'm guessing that the baby is bf and so won't take a bottle mad4.

If I'm wrong and baby is ff then mix it in with feed.

Is it need v regularly SBS? How old is baby?
Both of mine used copious amounts of it, but only until I gave up dairy, as their discomfort was a symptom of milk intolerance.

I wont be giving up dairy - it is really impractical to give up dairy if you cant eat soya

yes he's breastfed - 1 month old

Oh gosh - is it you who is allergic to soya or baby? I don't envy you. As much as it is a pain to give up dairy as it gets into so much, I know that soya is in just about everything processed these days. I gave it up for 2 or 3 weeks when dd was little, and it was hard.
Would it be feasible to maybe just cut down a bit on milk - perhaps use rice or oat milk on cereal, or drink herbal tea so that milk isn't needed in it?
Or is baby not regularly in pain, and gripe water just an occasional thing? I read the tone of your OP as being quite desperate and despondent, but I may have read more into it than was there.

Wait, one month? I'm not sure gripe water is suitable for one month - might be wrong though.

It's ok from birth or 1 month cc (depending on brand iirc).

Oh ok sorry - just wanted to check.

OP, Fennel tea (drunk by you, not baby) is supposed to be fantastic for colic. Worth a try?

Tiny bit at a time on a medicine spoon. I usually find that DD stops screaming after first taste (at least temporarily) Also if your DC has a dummy, dip it in the gripe water.