Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Water from heaven

Levi's sleeping at night has been getting worse, not better. I know his tummy is bothering him. (This happened with all of our kids, but I think Levi has it the worst.) I've already noticed that it helps if I don't eat dairy, but Levi is still waking a lot at night in discomfort. Enter a wonderful invention called gripe water. I think it has been around for a long time; it's a natural medicine-type water with ginger and fennel, and you give about a teaspoon of it to the baby. I did this last night with Levi's last feeding, and then he slept for 5.5 hours. The longest he had gone before was 3.5, so last night was great!

2 comments:

Sheyb said...

Gripe water is awesome!! We had to give that to Zoe when she was newborn too. Works wonders. :)

Sara said...

I second that!! We used it a ton with Elena--even now sometimes--it's awesome!!