My baby had the hardest time taking his vitamin D supplement until we started using the Frida baby medicine pacifier Honestly a game changer, it takes like 3 seconds to give him when we’re feeding, and he doesn’t choke on it because he’s already sucking/we can control how much we squirt into it. It also tricks him into swallowing when we give it while breastfeeding, because otherwise he would make a face and kind of let it look into his mouth. We’ve had minimal issues with him spitting up because, i think, we follow it with more breast milk. But we still have to do our usual ‘keep baby up for at least 20 min’ thing because of regular spit up
Does she use a pacifier? We have good luck with the FridaBaby pacifier that lets you poke a syringe in. amazon link
We LOVED the MediFrida syringe — it felt like a lifesaver and I recommend it to everyone. Also the Haakaa if you hope/plan to breastfeed.
I see it recommended a lot, by the Breastfriend nursing pillow was a huge flop for me. I could never get babe in a good position with it.
Binkie of deception!
Medi Frida the Accu-Dose Pacifier Baby Medicine Dispenser by FridaBaby https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073XVXQ6R/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_Z8QF9T48K24WQMV72YG2
It's roughly the same shape as the Avent pacifiers so my girls (who are two and still use the binkies they were given in the NICU religiously) will use it no problem.
We got ours as a gift and I made sure to thank our friends for giving it to us. My guy struggled soo much with the bulb that I finally tried the electric one. It’s more work to clean but soo fast that he can’t struggle enough to stop me from using it.
Have you tried different flavors for the Tylenol or try Motrin? Does she like a pacifier? Medi Frida the Accu-Dose Pacifier Baby Medicine Dispenser by FridaBaby
We used the Frida Paci attachment after our daughter gave us a hard time with antibiotics for an ear infection. She'd blow raspberries and laugh or gag and spit up. The Frida Paci thing helps you aim the medicine into their cheek. We sat her in her highchair, one of us would gently hold her head and the other would maneuver the paci into her mouth/cheek and squirt. We would do a little at a time (like three squirts to get it all in). This is what finally worked for us. Medi Frida the Accu-Dose Pacifier Baby Medicine Dispenser by FridaBaby https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073XVXQ6R/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_59D9Q1DW0NZ0J3WTA9BK?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Are you using a syringe or a spoon?
Make lots of happy faces and yummy noises and tease top lip with a syringe to get LO to open, then pop it along the cheek right towards the back and put a tiny bit in. Then smack lips together and say yummy noises to get LO to swallow. A bit will come out but majority should swallow.
Or try to get a dummy that you can dispense meds through like this
Frida baby MediFrida - it's a syringe attached to a pacifier. You can squirt it into their much through the pacifier but the baby sucking on it basically tricks them into swallowing the meds. Best purchase I ever made
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B073XVXQ6R/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_45AE8EP6SV3ASC2JBBWT
A lot of pharmacies/Walmarts/targets and Amazon carry something called a MediFrida that’s a system designed to do this - it’s a syringe-compatible pacifier that has a little tube in it that goes to the tip, so the medicine gets delivered just past the back of the baby’s tongue. My LO has to take meds as well and is not a fan, but with this thing, he doesn’t even notice. If you can, it helps to give it right before a meal when the baby is already hungry, so they gulp through the meds fast before realizing it isn’t milk/formula (nipple in their mouth + liquid coming out = oh yay, I’m being fed!). I then swap it out super fast for an actual bottle (or boob, if you’re nursing), and the baby can then chug their way through the rest of the meal.
We went from spilling/having the baby spit out almost half of each dose to giving all the meds with no issues. Totally worth the $13 in my opinion!
Here’s the amazon link for it (not an affiliate link, I promise, I’m just SO grateful for how much easier this thing has made our lives that I try to tell people about it whenever this comes up!). If it’s easier, I think most pharmacies carry them too, although that might just be the ones I’ve checked.
Oh! And you don’t have to use the syringe that’s included; most syringes will fit in the little tube. So infant Tylenol will work if you need that at some point, or smaller syringes like the 1ml ones you can order off of amazon, if you’re doing smaller doses and need to be more precise.
Medi Frida the Accu-Dose Pacifier Baby Medicine Dispenser by FridaBaby https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B073XVXQ6R/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_Q1S3EFBB0FSHVA79G6K1
This is the one I have by Frida: https://www.amazon.com/Fridababy-MediFrida-Accu-Dose-Pacifier-Dispenser/dp/B073XVXQ6R
Medi Frida the Accu-Dose Pacifier Baby Medicine Dispenser by FridaBaby https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073XVXQ6R/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_6JFB7T7YQZ4750JAD25R have you tried this?
FridaBaby MediFrida the Accu-Dose Pacifier Baby Medicine Dispenser https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B073XVXQ6R/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_X5BACZ9ECCSTNPX11Z1D?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
More a tool than a tip but a medication pacifier is the only way we've gotten our 6-month old to take Tylenol. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073XVXQ6R/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_EF9S314A1PMW5BV8JT5J
The spoon is a great idea!
I also just saw this medicine pacifier syringe by FridaBaby the other day, and thought it was rather brilliant: https://www.amazon.com/Fridababy-MediFrida-Accu-Dose-Pacifier-Dispenser/dp/B073XVXQ6R
We are also on Omeprazole, and we use the MediFrida pacifier to administer it. Works great!
This, this, a thousand times this. Fridababy MediFrida the Accu-Dose Pacifier Baby Medicine Dispenser https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073XVXQ6R/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_hDIYDbSR0RBE0
I use a MediFrida for vitamin d drops. It’s basically a pacifier with a syringe. Maybe it’ll work?