Re: Re: Dawn- Giving infants meds-?'s

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Darla:

Is it because the liquid is coming out too fast in the bottle for her

and she can't swallow it fast enough? As I've mentioned before, Leah

still uses a habermann nipple. We found the nipple can work on a

regular bottle instead of just their bottle. The nipple comes with

a round plastic diaphragm. You squeeze the nipple to let the air

out; but there are three lines on it to control the milk coming out.

This nipple is used for premies and cleft palate children that don't have

good muscle control or muscle tone. You look at the nipple and would

think a child would gag on the length, but Leah takes the longer nipple

and absolutely refuses to use the short nipple. She has always used

the long nipple from birth. And I pumped my milk for 18 months.

One thing we do now with her supplements is microwave for 5 seconds

only and it melts the CoQ10 more to mix with the other supplements and

liquid carnitor. We also use a syringe and squirt it in her cheek

pocket and some times we closed her mouth to keep the vitamins because

she now recognizes the syringe and knows that this is awlful tasting stuff

going down her throat. Do you put it on the side that wasn't affected

by the stroke? I'm sure you are, just an honest question on my part.

You could put it in just a tiny, tiny bit at a time. Leah takes 5

CC's of liquid carnitor, so by the time we mix up all her vitamins it is

about 6 CC's she is taking in and we some times syringe twice in to her

mouth. Hard with a three month old who has swallowing issues.

If the supplements go down too fast in to Leah's mouth she will cough and

some times throw them up too, and that can happen almost an hour later.

May be mixing it in your breast milk it will thin out the supplements more.

But that is what we found with the microwave, melted the thicker liquid

so it does go down smoother. Good luck and tell us what you found

from experimenting that worked.

Nerenhausen

mom to leah

Darla Klein wrote:

I am not sure if that

will work with Porrah due to her being breast fed rather than bottle fed.

We have tried bottles a couple times, but she gags on them and then vomits.

I am hoping the Prilosec will help some but if the gagging and excessive

air swallowing are due to muscle weakness from the stroke episode she had,

I am not sure how much it will help. Maybe I will try the bottle

idea and let you know how it goes. Thanks for the suggestions. Darla

Re: Giving infants

meds-?'s

Darla,

I know that we had to try this with . They actually

make

bottles that have syringes attached. When they are drinking the

formula or whatever, you just press the syringe a little at a time

and they suck the med down with the formula I cannot remember the

name of the company who makes it though. Another idea we used was to

put the nipple of a bottle into their mouth and let them suck on it

and put the med into it while they are sucking By the time they

realize it is not a bottle, the meds should be down. Other then

these two ideas I cannot be more helpful except keep doing what you

are doing. Good luck. (it's sounds horrible, but thank God for

G-tubes!!!) I know meds with my other two are so much more difficult

then just sticking them down the tube.

& ! nbsp;

;

Dawn Myers