This is assuming you consulted with your doctor and it’s ok to give them the medicine and so forth. A warning to those who pour it down their throat while they are screaming - they throw it back up and it just isn’t a great thing…. yes, that’s personal experience talking, I was desperate, ugh.

• Have them lay down on your lap with their legs around you, slumping towards the floor, then give it to them with the dropper.
• Lay them on the floor on their back, squat over them using your legs to hold their arms down on the sides. Then use one hand to hold their head still and the other to dump it in.
• Sneak the dropper in while they have their mouth open (make them laugh, etc.), squirting it into the inside of the cheek.
• Use a little medicine cup (like what you get on top of cough syrup).
• Use a big medicine dropper (usually found at the store for a dollar or so), put it back between the gum and the cheek and then blow on their face.
• Use a pacifier dispenser.
• Use a medicine spoon (the little one would never stand for this, but maybe yours will….)

Anything that works for your little one that I missed??

My little guy is always cutting, biting or smashing his lips/tongue/cheeks/you name it - he’s a busy little guy and always into everything. To help with the bleeding and pain, popsicles are our friends. Not only because they calm him down and because it’s probably the only way I could get ice in there, but also because the sugar helps to stop the bleeding! Learn something new every day, eh? Just don’t let them suck hard on it, as that will just make things worse…Be sure to check out the rest of the Works For Me Wednesday tips as well as the Carnival of the Vanities which is being hosted here this week, busy place, eh?

1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. table salt
1/2 tsp. potassium salt
3 tsp. sugar (or flavored kool-aid, not sugar free)

Mix it all with 1 liter water.

(I earn the bad mommy award for just giving him Gatorade when he is sick, but he drinks it and he won’t touch pedialyte).