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I'm here for distraction really, jack isn't sleeping he's really tired but not giving in, he's been up there over an hour and now I'm on 6 mins of c.crying. Won't be worth it soon. I'll hvae to abandon at 5pm if he doesn't give in. Little horror. I know he's tired as he was rubbing his eyes and giving sleepy signs during his milk, he's just fighting it.

Thing is when I abandon at 5pm he'll think he's won, when he hasn't. I only relenting as 5pm is getting on for tea and too close to bedtime.....but try telling him that.

He's doing tired crying now over the monitor and i'm getting really cross.....

SusanCarter

Anybody have any tips on how to get babies to actually take the Medised? The moment Alice sees the syringe coming towards her or feels it touch her mouth she purses her lips and blows raspberries. We just can't get her to entertain taking it. :eek:

pookienoodle

SusanCarter wrote: »

Anybody have any tips on how to get babies to actually take the Medised? The moment Alice sees the syringe coming towards her or feels it touch her mouth she purses her lips and blows raspberries. We just can't get her to entertain taking it. :eek:

mix it in with a small amount of other liquid,milk or juice usually works for us.

[Deleted User]

Alice is around 6 months isn't she? I had problems getting Jack to take meds from a syringe at that age. I just used a spoon, the 2.5ml end as he was used to a weaning spoon by then. Now he recognises the spoon, so I have a certain hold I do and he opens up, tip half the spoon, let him swallow and then offer the rest tipping the spoon over so its all off, then repeat for the second half.

Did that make sense?

PS I found a two person hold, i.e. one pinning him down and the other approaching with a spoon was too traumatic for me and him. Just me and him and he complies (usually).

Js_Other_Half

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JS, I read this "Lu T we are still using elasticated leather pull ons for DS " 3 times with bewilderment until I realised you were referring to shoes and not nappies!!!

:-)

:rotfl:

No, we are using motherease nappies for him - honest...:p

The shoes are either Robeez or Shoo Shoo...;)

He is not walking at all unaided, so I'll leave him alone for now as regards visiting Clarks.

Js_Other_Half

We have used a syringe before now for meds, but it can be traumatic. Generally we have a medicine dropper which DS recognises and sucks the med out of it - most of the time. Occasionally - like today - I have to just squirt a little bit in at a time towards the side of his cheek.
You can see the sort of dropper here:
http://www.livingaidsonline.co.uk/acatalog/medication-management.html

Dormouse

Hope all the poorly babies have a better night tonight.

Well, we had a first tonight... Alex pooed in his bath! :eek: :rotfl: Luckily it was DH that was bathing him. We couldn't believe it, DS1 has never done anything like that, and anyway I thought they are supposed to have some sort of reflex to stop them pooing in water (or did I dream that? )

It was lucky he was in his baby bath and not sharing the big one with his big brother :rotfl:

On a slightly more serious note, he's started bringing up milk after his feeds. He's always done a little dribble occasionally, but the last two days we've had quite big amounts of milk come out, not humongous but a lot more than we're used to, and after every feed. Anyone know what could be causing it? He's 16 weeks and fully BFed, no solids yet.

heather38

are you more engorged? i found that as kennedy got older she took more milk (as her stomach grew) and was a little greedy and sometimes had too much and promptly threw it up. try giving shorter feeds more often if possible and see if that helps.

Becles

Dormouse wrote: »

and anyway I thought they are supposed to have some sort of reflex to stop them pooing in water (or did I dream that? )

I don't think so. One of my sons did it frequently :eek:

Hope all the poorly babies get a good nights sleep.

MrsW82

Morning all!

I feel I should join you guys - I was in the pregnancy group - but since Samantha is now 2 weeks old, I should wean myself away from there! (sniff!)


I currently have the world's sorest nipples (from b/f!) I have resorted to using my breast-pump and a bottle occasionally (no more than 2 feeds a day), and this has helped. The only thing is, I had my last M/W visit yesterday, and she made me feel really bad about doing this - as if I'd done something pure evil!!!:mad:

Am now worrying. Plus I've not had a Health Visitor 'round yet (so don't know DD's weight - ie is she feeding well enough?)

And to top it off, OH is back at work, for the 1st time since she was born - so it's our 1st full day alone!

Sorry for the rant - please someone say I'm not mad?!

Thanks,

MrsW82