Giving Gaviscon

Hi there, just wondering how those of you who had to give your baby gaviscon actually got your baby to take it? My wee guy is 6 weeks old and 5.7kg therefore we have to give him 2 sachets after each feed. We tried for the first time this morning using a bottle ( he does take the bottle with EBM) but he gagged and then chucked up the gaviscon plus a whole lot of milk. We tried a few times and same thing.

So question is how on earth am I supposed to get it into him?? Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thankyou

You could try giving it to him on a spoon - I've managed this sucessfully once with gaviscon - but it takes ages with so much to give.

Isla was older when she started on it. After much trial and error, the best way we found was the 2 sachets mixed with 15 mls cooled boiled water into a smooth paste, then put in the side of her mouth usuing a large(10ml I think) dropper that I brought from a chemist for about $2.
We found it was more useful given immediatly before feeds, rather than after.

Yes unfortuantley you have to make it up straight before u give it. If u got it turns into cement! Truely!
I just used to have little plastic bowls with lids, and would open 2 sachets into each bowl in the evening, for the next day. I would then keep boiled water in a bottle next to it, and spoons etc all set up, so when I actually needed to do it, it was as ready as possible.

I had a seperate set of stuff for when we went out. Did get some funny looks out in public mixing up a white powder to give to my baby! Lol!

You do get used to it. I gave Isla 6 lots a day for 6 months (plus Ranitidine twice a day), and then luckily she grew out of it!

Yeah Jen- thats how we used to feel,...so many medicines for such a wee thing. Was even worse when she got sick and she had to have pamol and antibiotics on top of the rest.

Isla had problems with constipation, but fortunatly they werent ongoing, once she was having 3 meals of solids, and we could get prune juice/apple puree etc into her!

Glad that you are getting some help. Karitane Centre should be really helpful. We ended up going all the way to Auck to a Plunket Family Centre there get help when Isla was still unsettled/screaming/ feeding less than 3 mins a feed and sleeping less than 2 hrs at a time day or night, at nearly 5 months.
We had seen 3 Dr's, 2 plunket nurses, 2 midwives and been to the Mothercraft Unit at Waikato Hospital for a week- and kept being told she didnt have reflux cos she didnt spill at all, and that she was healthy and just an unsettled baby.
The nurses at the family centre really listened to all my concerns, and 2 nurses on 2 different both thought she had reflux,...so eventually she was tried on Gaviscon, and within a few doses she was like a different baby!

It was only the beginning of a new road for us,...which involved Paeds, other meds,...alergies, excema,..etc,...but just thought I would share a little of our journey!

Feel free to keep asking questions. Oh baby is a great place!