gripe water

[maggie]

Hi

Can anyone let me know if they are using gripe water on their newwborns, and if so, waht results have they seen. thanks

[*~Maddisons Mummy~*]

hey, i used it on maddy and it done nothing for her, and she hated it! to make her burp i gave her a bit of boiled cooled water and that worked a treat for me!

[enigma]

i read that gripe water contains sugar and sometimes alcohol so i didnt use it for Aneta. For her colic we use INFACOL wind drops - works great HTH

[kmh]

i used it with DD1 i don't think it did much.

[nikbrad]

We bought Gripe water and spoke to the 1800 MCHN about it who said it was an old wives tale so we never used it. We ended up using Infacol too.

[NewmumLou]

Wow i am shocked that i am the only one that liked gripe water....I used gripe water on Joshua and it was a life savor! My mum got me into it, I use to dip his dummy in it when he was whingy and it seemed to settle him straight away, i believe it helped with his wind and sore pains in his belly. Now they actually make gripe water without any alcohol, that was the first thing i checked! So i think it is a little more safer!

[Gemma]

We used it - the alcohol one but didn't realise it was the alcohol that was working. We didn't realise so which switched to the non-alcoholic one which didn't do anything. We swtiched to the Braur one.

[Debbie Lee]

I used it and found that it didn't do much. I also found infacol to work a bit better.