Teething 7 month old won’t take Calpol 😅

Any suggestions to help give my stubborn teething bubba calpol?? We’ve tried with the syringe and he just pulls away or spits it out, tried on a spoon pretending it’s purée, tried in the bottle lid and cup but still nothing 😅 if only they knew we are trying to help!

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Try an adult spoon x

We’ve used this since birth and it genuinely has saved our lives, although she likes the taste of most medicines in fairness 😂

Just an FYI, doesn’t come with the syringe 🙄 you’ll need to buy them separately!

Frida Baby Soother-Style Medicine Dispenser https://amzn.eu/d/5lxMDg9

My little one absolutely hate calpol, the only way I can get it into her is with the syringe, put in a tiny bit then quickly putting her dummy in so she takes that and swallows the calpol, it’s a long process but gets the calpol into her!
Of you little one doesn’t take a dummy try some of the supermarket or pharmacy liquid paracetamol as it comes on different flavours, Lloyds pharmacy for example do a cherry flavoured one and my little girl is much better with that one!
Hope this helps 🥰

I had to do the Same as really but with the bottle instead of a dummy

Thank you all for the suggestions will give them a go 🤞 x

My little girl hates Calpol but absolutely loves ibuprofen or nurofen. You can also try using anbesol gel on the gums x

my little girl is the exact same!!! Can’t get her to take the calpol but the orange nurofen she loves!!

the things we have to do! I don’t get it I used to love calpol 🤣

I don’t get it either, last couple of bottles I’ve bought have been white too instead of pink so maybe the taste has changed from what we remember? 🤔

I noticed that too! Picked one up from boots the other day and it was white instead of the usual pink. I checked and it still said strawberry flavour 🤔 must have changed it!

We used to put it in the milk bottle and take the time of it when she finished the bottle. Now she takes it fine but never any issues in the milk itself

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RANT!! MIL & Partner

My partner told me that his mum called him and said our child is turning four and she feels like she’s never had her, whereas my family have. That’s not really true—apart from one time this year when our daughter stayed overnight at my mum’s because my partner had booked us a surprise one-night getaway, my family don’t have her regularly. My mum lives 40 minutes away, so contact is mostly FaceTime, and the only other family nearby is my gran, who lives about 10 minutes away.
My MIL originally asked to have our daughter on Tuesday, which I agreed to. She then changed it to Saturday, but I said no because we already had plans. She got upset, moaned, and said she’d just have her Tuesday then.

I told my partner that I don’t need anyone to look after our child. If I did, I would ask. I manage everything myself—I even take her with me to my brow appointments. Realistically, my MIL wouldn’t have her anyway because she works.

My partner then got angry and started shouting at me, saying that I often tell him our child hasn’t been listening or has been a handful, and that he’s tired of hearing it. He said I should just let his mum have her. He also said his mum is better suited to look after her than my family, and said my family are trampy and they can’t look after children properly. After that, he went upstairs, kicked some boxes on the landing, and said he was done with me🤯

The truth is, I don’t want anyone to have my child. I don’t feel I need the help, and if I ever did, I would ask. God forbid a mother can have a little rant to their partner if she’s had a stressful day with their child!😣

Am I just complaining?

am i just complaining or is this actually unfair?

my partner works 9–6 monday to friday
and i stay home with the baby all day

i don’t mind doing chores during the week, makes sense to me

but when he comes home, gets on the game, and then goes to sleep
and on weekends i’m still the one doing everything

like… when do i get a break?

i’m not saying he doesn’t work hard
but taking care of a baby all day isn’t easy either

so am i just complaining… or is this actually not balanced?

My boyfriend told me I'm making what I'm going through affect my daughter and I stopped showing up for her the way I used to. He's right. How do I fix this?

Super depressed and hopeless most days. We're in a shelter and I'm currently working very low hours. I try to go to school trips and stuff and I do pick up and drop off but we don't do much else because of money. We used to have dates and I used to buy her clothes and shoes and now I feel so helpless

Do children have a right to digital privacy…

even before they can consent?

Would you send your child here?

Would you send your child to a preschool that offers access to a live streaming video for “your little one’s safety and your peace of mind”? Why or why not?

Am I being paranoid or gaslit?

I feel like I am being constantly gaslit by my husband over things that to me, should be common sense, but to him I’m “being dramatic” and “he won’t do that”

For example our son has just started crawling, we already have a baby gate at the top of the stairs but I want one for the bathroom door too because the actual door we have doesn’t shut properly and I don’t want him going in there and playing with the toilet brush and stuff like that, my husband said I was being stupid and “why would he do that he’s not stupid” and he thinks we should only have a gate at the top of the stairs and that’s it and any more I’m being obsessive about them, I also want one over the kitchen and bottom of stairs but again apparently that’s too much!

Another example I told him he has to turn his extension lead off at the wall now baby is crawling because I don’t want him to chew the phone charger or play with the sockets etc, he told me I was being ridiculous and “nothing will happen to him stop being paranoid”

Earlier I caught him texting while he was bathing our son and I said he needs to keep his hands and eyes on him at all times in the bath and he told me I was being paranoid again.

There’s been a few other digs here and there but these are the most recent ones. It’s making me worry when I have to leave my baby with him incase he’s not taking his safety seriously like why isn’t he thinking of all the potential dangers the way that I do all the time?
I have post partum anxiety which he knows about and sometimes I think he uses this against me.