https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 16 May 2026 16:16:37 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-to-get-baby-to-swallow-medicine#post-1257304 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:55:23 +0000 Penny Lane 1257304@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>what worked for us was squirting the medicine near the back of his mouth, and either leaving the syringe in his mouth for him to suck on, or taking it out and putting a paci in super fast </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-to-get-baby-to-swallow-medicine#post-1257297 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:52:46 +0000 HabesBabe 1257297@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mamimami: This is what we do!</p> <p>We had to give C antibiotics last month when she had a sinus infection through a syringe. I would sit at the kitchen table, have her kind of lie down on her back across my legs, and put her arm (the one closest to me) behind my back. Then I would cradle her neck/head with my arm and kind of headlock her and hold her other hand with the cradling hand (it sounds soooo mean! But she would get her hands and hit the syringe away).</p> <p>Then we'd put the syringe in her mouth, squirt a little at a time, but not take the syringe out. If we took it out, she would blow raspberries and I would be covered in pink medicine. Somehow, keeping the syringe in her mouth made her swallow/close her throat, even though her mouth was open. Repeat until she finished all of the medicine. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-to-get-baby-to-swallow-medicine#post-1257161 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:06:40 +0000 Running Elley 1257161@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We squeeze his cheeks and make sure his head is tipped back! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-to-get-baby-to-swallow-medicine#post-1257124 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 16:55:35 +0000 Ash 1257124@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: same advice I was gonna give! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-to-get-baby-to-swallow-medicine#post-1257092 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 16:47:15 +0000 jodyblair 1257092@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mamimami @looch: I'll have to try that!<br /> @yoursilverlining: If only he would take a bottle or let me feed him from a spoon! </p> <p>Thanks for the suggestions! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-to-get-baby-to-swallow-medicine#post-1257015 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 16:29:58 +0000 yoursilverlining 1257015@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We tried every which way to get medicine in her mouth via the syringe/dropper and none of them worked. What has worked, consistently, is to just mix the medicine into either a bottle of bm or formula, or to mix it into yogurt or applesauce if your LO is onto purees. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-to-get-baby-to-swallow-medicine#post-1257005 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 16:27:26 +0000 blackbird 1257005@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We squirt it in and the force makes her swallow, then she stick a bottle with water in it in her mouth and she sucks. It works but she does NOT like it </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-to-get-baby-to-swallow-medicine#post-1257000 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 16:26:29 +0000 looch 1257000@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Put the syringe in the corner of their cheek, depress plunger and blow in their face. It causes them to swallow. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-to-get-baby-to-swallow-medicine#post-1256994 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 16:25:37 +0000 mamimami 1256994@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I HATE THIS. The only solutions I have found are either to NOT withdraw the syringe from the baby's mouth until he has swallowed the medicine OR to take it out and hold the mouth shut. Either way sucks but it usually works. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-to-get-baby-to-swallow-medicine#post-1256975 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 16:20:57 +0000 jodyblair 1256975@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 8 month old is working on a new tooth and every time I try to give him Tylenol, he ends up spitting most of it out. I aim the syringe towards his cheek and only squirt in a little at a time, but he still spits it out. Any tips? </p>