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Hey Girls!

Well Arna has got her 1st ear infection (I only realised when she woke up during the night and was like I just picked her up out of the OVEN!) - so she is on antibiotics (first time in her life) and she hates them. David has to hold her down and I have to force her mouth open to get the spoon in. We started off as a game so she would be happy but has hit and kicked me and we don't know what to do to make her take them. As it is doing it how we are now we are losing half the meds on my shirt or hers...
Any tips, advice, help etc would be very happily recieved!!!

we use an eye dropper cos you can control it and it doesn't all come out in 1 spurt - and you can put alittle at a time in. You might be able to explain and negotiate to her a little now that she is nearly 2. and maybe - after giving her each little bit she might be able to have a sip of drink? also, you could bribe (i know it's not always best but sometimes easier than a fight)sit her down and explain and tell her once it is all gone she may have, whatever, a bickie a lollie a chippy whatever.. or maybe can play with her favourite thing or whatever. soon she'll just get used to it and you can slowly remove the bribes and just stick with the sip of water after each little mouthful. hope that helps.

the syringes are great. I use them for the boys when they are being fussy. The ones I have go up to 10mls. Not sure how big they get. Otherwise I have put the medicine in a small amount of water and just got them to drink it which works great too as they feel in control but you will have to check if thats ok to do with her anitbiotics

Edited by k&jsmum

Zaara is on medication as well, she has blocked nose. The Eye dropper comes with it and I just put it next to her mouth and she sucks the med out herself. This gives her control as to how fast and how much to drink and I wait untill she sucks the next bit......However Zaara never said no to meds...well so far!

Try the eye dropper....????

Joey is on antibiotics for the first time too I hate it when babies are sick!! We use a syringe to give him the medicine and he loves it... mind you he is little enough (just hehehe) to hold down still!

How is Arna now Lena? Better I hope. Miss Maya was sick last week and it sucks! We do the syringe thing with the medicine, when she was smaller and used to fight more Willie used to have to hold her with her head tipped back so she couldn't spit it out again, but she seem to have gotten over that now.

Rachel had the same problem with Brianna, she just wouldn't take her medicine when she had an ear infection. Rach and mum tryed everything and in the end they gave up and Brianna didn't finish all her med's and the ear infection went away by itself.
Ryan and Katelyn are sick at the moment to, yucky blocked nose's so they have to breath out of there mouth's, i feel so sorry for them, but nurofen for kids seems to do the trick, that medicine is the SH*T.
Hope Arna and Joey get better real soon.

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Gosh its amzing how many bubba have caught a cold....I guess the bug is going around...I am lucky Zaara only has a blocked nose....and it is getting better.

I hope all the little bubba's get better soon!