Does anyone have a foolproof method for getting a 4 week old baby to take gripe water? My health visitor recommended it for colic, but I've tried it on a spoon, and using a pipette and have been totally unsuccessful.
Part of the problem is that, once shes fed DD goes into a complete milk haze for about 5 minutes after feeding and nothing can really get her attention during that period, when the bottle says that she should be having the gripe water. Even when I have managed to coax a pipette into her mouth all I get is a little fountain of gripe water a second later as she spits it out, nothing can induce her to suckle anymore at that stage. By the time she comes out of the milk haze she's already got trapped wind and I worry that it would be too late (she's still not keen on the gripe water at that stage either but at least is alert).
Any ideas? She's exclusively breast fed if that makes an difference? Any other recommendations for trapped wind? We've tried infacol, and while she thinks it tastes wonderful it doesn't appear to do any actual good.