Getting liquid medicine into small babies

[AnythingNotEverything]

Hello,

We have to give DD (12 days) a daily dose of medication dissolved in 7.5mls of water. It's importent she takes it all. It's lifelong medication so we have to crack it!

Anyone have any tips to get it down her?! We have a syringe, and I'm trying to aim it into her cheeks, but she's still spitting some of it out.

We're also giving it halfway through a feed, around nappy change time so when we switch boobs.

Any hints or tips gratefully received!

Just release the syringe very, very slowly. I learned this the hard way when giving my first baby her Vitamin D drops.

Lovely - it just seems such a lot of fluid! Will try it slower tomorrow.

Very slowly some in pause then more. There is a medicine dispensing dummy that can work very well.

Will she take a bottle? We used to put meds in the end of a teat and pop it in whilst DS was still searching for milk.

We'll asda bottle to the list.

Tonight we had some success with holding her fairly flat, dropping it in about half a millilitre at a time, and putting my little finger in the stimulate her suck reflux.

Please keep your fingers crossed for us!