6 medicine maneuvers

It's bad enough that your baby is sick-no you have to figure out how to get the medicine to down and stay down. And when my daughter was still a baby, it was really difficult to give her medicine, especially the one that doesn't smell and taste good.

So through the course of my motherhood, I have these tricks and techniques that I follow so the medicine will stay down and go down. And I got this from Parenting.com

• Pre-measure the correct dose, then use an infant medicine dropper to either slowly drop the medicine into your baby's mouth, let her suck on the dropper, or squirt it quickly back into the corner of her cheek. My little one usually suck on the dropper and if she is crying I don't do the last one, she would just gag and throw up. So you can wait until she/he has calm down before giving the medicine.
• If your baby hates the dropper, let her suck the medicine through a clean bottle nipple.
  
• she won't cooperate? Try mixing the medicine with a small amount of formula or breast milk.
  
• pop a pacifier in your baby's mouth immediately after giving her the medicine-it will make her more likely to suck and swallow. Now for babies that don't use pacifier like my little one, what I do is i gave her the medicine and then I breastfeed her. So more than likely she will swallow because she is breastfeeding.
  
• if you baby spits out what seems like all of the medicine or vomits within 5 to ten minutes after giving the medicine then repeat the full dose. If the medicine stayed down for about 20 minutes before she vomited, you don't need to give it to her again.
• if everything else fails, then ask your pediatrician for a prescription in suppository.
  

If everything else fails, then you can ask your pediatricians advice.

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