Helping Babies Take Their Medicine

Respectful Parenting: Janet Lansbury Unruffled

JLML Press

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2017

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Janet responds to two mothers who share a common challenge: giving their small children necessary medications that are unpleasant or painful. Both mothers are caring and respectful, but both are struggling. One mother believes, “I’m definitely doing something wrong here.” The other wonders, “How do I speak to my baby when I’m doing something that hurts, but is necessary?” For more on common infant/toddler parenting issues, please check out Janet's audio series SESSIONS, her recorded consultations with parents discussing their most immediate and pressing concerns: SessionsAudio.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, before we begin, I just want to remind you to please check out my new
0:07.6	No Bad Kids Master course.
0:09.6	You can find out all about it at nobadkidscourse.com.
0:13.8	Hi, this is Janet Lansbury and welcome to Unruffled.
0:21.9	Today I'm responding to two separate emails from moms who share a common and universal
0:28.9	challenge, giving a resistant infant or toddler their medicine.
0:33.7	I know that Mary Poppins recommended a spoonful of sugar, but we all know that it's not
0:39.4	quite that simple with our children.
0:44.8	Now here are the emails that I received.
0:47.2	First one, hi Janet, I love your blogs and I always refer to them when considering how
0:51.0	to raise my daughter who's 10 months old.
0:53.5	I'm currently in the middle of a huge problem though, and I'm hoping you can offer some
0:57.2	practical advice.
0:58.8	I did read your blog on this topic and the comments, but I couldn't find anyone with a solution
1:03.5	to this problem for a baby of my daughter's age, other than tricking.
1:08.5	My daughter has some antibiotic medicine that she needs to take for a week or on day three.
1:14.4	She absolutely refuses to take it.
1:16.7	This is what I've been doing, preparing her that she's going to have some medicine and
1:20.6	then she's going to have her meal.
1:22.7	Then picking her up and putting her bib on telling her it's time for her medicine.
1:26.9	I acknowledge that she doesn't want to take her medicine, but she's going to have her
1:30.8	medicine now and then we can have some food.
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