How much gripe water and oral gel?
I'm a first-time mom with an almost 7 month old baby, and I'm not against medicine, I'll use it, but this sounded excessive to me. I recently hired a nanny. She said that she's using gripe water, probiotic drops, and oral gel, all of them every day sometimes twice a day with my baby for the last month. She comes three times a week for 9 hours a day while I'm at work. Basically, the entire time she's worked with us, she's done this. I did buy them for the baby first aid kit, and the baby does sometimes have some gas and teething, but it didn't seem so bad when I'm at home with the baby that those would be needed. Usually, if I give them a cold teething ring, or washcloth with water, or those teether with frozen fruit, or brush their gums with a baby toothbrush, those seem to help a ton. Or if it's gas doing bicycles, tummy rubs, or even just walking them in the stroller. I wouldn't say no to using gripe water, or oral gel if I tried the previous methods and they didn't work, I myself would use them in that case. But when it's just me and baby, I've never needed to. Maybe baby is really worse when I'm not around, I don't know. Maybe the formula upset their stomach or the way she feeds them. They have started solids. But that seems like a lot. I'm not sure if I should go to the pediatrician when I'm not seeing the same symptoms. She follows the directions on the box, she says. It doesn't say you can't use it every day. Is that how people use it? The baby's poop has never been hard. They do store it for three days and then have a massive poop but it seems like a normal poop. So they are definitely not constipated. I don't know if I being weird by asking her to use less gripe water, oral gel, and probiotics when I'm not sure if she's using them too much or not. I found out because she asked me to buy more.
I'd like to know also. :)