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Q: Gripe Water

asked by: mamaTT on October 26th, 2007

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What age can you give a baby gripe water? My daughter will be 10 weeks old tomorrow. She gets the hiccups ALL the time and gripe water is suppose to help get rid of them. I try to get her to take a couple drinks from her bottle, but that doesn't always work and she doesn't always want anymore of her bottle. I wouldn't be that worried about it, but the hiccups make her so mad that she starts gasping for air because she's crying and screaming so hard. It takes quite a while to get her to calm down once the hiccups do go away.

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Emma2

replied on October 26th, 2007

Extremely eHealthy

gripe water can be given from birth as indicated on the packaging

Eyes Wide Shut

replied on October 26th, 2007

Especially eHealthy

Nancy's right.

BUT, you can give her just plain jane water instead of buying Gripe Water.

Gripe water is GREAT for gas too!!

Sarah

mamaTT

replied on October 26th, 2007

Extremely eHealthy

I hadn't ever seen it anywhere, so I never had an opportunity to read the packaging. I did find it in the grocery store earlier and picked some up. It won't hurt to have some on hand!!

Emma2

replied on October 26th, 2007

Extremely eHealthy

mamaTT wrote:

I hadn't ever seen it anywhere, so I never had an opportunity to read the packaging. I did find it in the grocery store earlier and picked some up. It won't hurt to have some on hand!!

its available in all pharmacies and walmart has it..........

Eyes Wide Shut

replied on October 26th, 2007

Especially eHealthy

walgreens too! Wink

Sarah

tinkinpink84

replied on October 26th, 2007

Especially eHealthy

i never saw it at the stores yall are talking about when i was lookin for it for joseph, i had to drive 45 min to a health food store to get it! but it was worth it, i tried everything else with joseph he screamed and screaming an dhad gas bad and stuff and nothing at all worked. So i drove all that way just for it lol. hopefully it will work out for ya!

mamaTT

replied on October 29th, 2007

Extremely eHealthy

It knocked out her hiccups REAL quick. I have found the magic potion!!!! I had never been able to find it at wal-mart (pharmacy section or baby section), but I hadn't looked in any of the pharmacies, because I use my grocery store to have prescriptions filled, but they had it in the baby aisle.

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