Gripe Water Rage!

[LoveMrKipling]

Not sure if this is the right place for this Q. Does anyone have any tips on getting Gripe Water into an 11 week old? It's fine if DH is helping (holding bottle, keeping waving arms out of the way) but when I'm on my own it goes everywhere but his mouth!

Also, should I be sterilising medicine spoons or is that OTT?!

TIA for any suggestions!

Try a syringe instead, the ones you get in packs of Calpol or Nurofen. Squirt it a little at a time into the corner of the mouth rather than straight down and dont sit baby right up ti after its all been swallowed.

You could try infacol instead? Comes with a dropper so easier to administer, or maybe try a medicine syringe for the gripe water, I think you can sterilise them along with everything else.

I use a calpol syringe, a little at a time, and have him tilted back in my arm (he hates lying down) to help him swallow it.

Try putting it an a teat (minus the bottle).

Or give up, because I'm convinced it's only sold for the placebo effect

Colief is very expensive but very effective and you just put it in their normal feed (or in a bit of expressed bm)

A syringe is good.

Thanks everyone. I do wonder about placebo effect too! He really seems to struggle with trumping and straining though! We didn't get on too well with infacol but will give Colief a try and will pop out to get a syringe. Thanks again.

We used dentinox for dd (still do now if she seems to be struggling with trapped wind) which comes with a 2.5 ml dropper. I tried sterilising the dropper and it melted and bent!

The syringes in the boots own-brand calpol are fantastic. Gripe water is so much easier going in that way.

Use the little dropper thing from your infacol.. Made it really easy for me.

Oh and I used to chuck it in the sterilizer with the bottles and it was fine

I'd second trying infacol. It tastes far nicer for little ones.

Colief is for lactose intolerance, so will only work if the problem is inability to digest lactose (which is pretty rare in babies).

Infacol has a side-effect of possibly causing puking, and only works if the problem is them gulping air (it joins small bubbles together in the stomach making them easier to burp out, doesn't work further down the gut).

I just wanted to point out that these things aren't interchangeable, they treat different problems.

I just poured a little into the lid of the bottle and slowly poured a bit into their mouths.

Thanks for the advice whereisshe . I hadn't realised that Infacol only dealt with the higher digestive tract. I did find it made my DS sicky so stopped using it. The pharmacist suggested giving Colief a try to see if it made any difference, but haven't used it yet. We started a baby massage course today so will see if that improves the wind and straining. Hopefully things will get easier as his bowels mature a little. Thanks again for the advice x

It was a total life saver for DC 2 but no effect on DC1. I lived in fear of running out !!! I used a calpol syringe