"Drugging" Baby - Page 4

[urchin_grey]

Unfortunately I have heard of this. My aunt's step-daughter gives it to her kids (and my aunt is all for it and gives it to them too). And they do it a LOT. They even got into trouble at Wal Mart because they were buying so much cold medicine they were suspected of running a meth lab. :

Actually, the way they talk, it sounds like its pretty common practice where they go to church. :

[momz3]

My sister did that to her son and when I had watched him a couple of times, she had advised I give him benadryl to sleep. I refused and she was like "Oh well! You are gonna have a hard time getting him to sleep." I gave him a long bath, dinner and put him to bed WITHOUT meds and he was fine. Slept through the night. I told my mom about this. And she doesn't see anything wrong with it either. I'm like are you kidding? She's giving my nephew meds and he's not sick!!

[wonderwahine]

Originally Posted by carolhagan

Yikes! That's sad. A totally preventable death of a child... horrible.

I rarely give my children medication, and when the decision was made to medicate my oldest son, I felt terrible. I really did. I was actually embarresed by it for a while because I have always been so anti-medication. But, now I really feel we did what was best for everyone in the family.

Is there a spell check on this forum??

I think in your situation is is perfectly acceptable, what we are discussing more is the parents who do it for no medical reason.

it is awful what some parents will do, and what some parents consider "waking up alot", ive heard some people say cause their 6mth old wakes once during the night they have a sleep problem! :

[northwoods1995]

Wow!!

Is is really that common?

I can't even imagine!! I admit I gave DS Tylenol a couple of times when he was miserable from teething (this was before I knew better I haven't given him any since and DD has never had anything) but giving it every night to get kids to sleep better????!!! Wow.

Gosh, thankfully no one I know of IRL does this (maybe they just don't talk about it?!?)

[ewe+lamb]

A friend of mine was returning to Auz after being here in France for a few years and was given a prescription for both her boys so that they would sleep for most of the 24 journey they - she got the prescription but I'm not sure if she gave it or not! It seems to be quite common here for long journeys.

[Canadianmommax3]

my sil has been giving her baby gravol for months so he will sleep, he still crys himself to sleep everynight. He is 9 months old.

[avocadolemonade]

I read articles all over that the "drugging" thing doesn't statistically help, especially the Benadryl myth. Well it might help them to fall asleep, but not to *stay*asleep.
However my ped was casually telling me to give Benadryl to my older boy during the flight when we went to Japan last winter. I didn't do it cause I remember as a kid I always got travel sickness and the medicine made me soooo sleepy I just felt so pooped by the time we arrived. The sleep you get with those meds is not quality sleep in my opinion

[USAmma]

There was a baby a few years ago that died in the care of a daycare provider. It turned out that the daycare provider was putting Benedryl in the bottle. The baby got an overdose. How sad is that? It can be so, so dangerous to give something like this. I remember in the article, the mom said that on weekends her baby was not a good napper, but the daycare provider had said that the baby always napped well at her house, for most of the afternoon.

[Benji'sMom]

When our older DS was a newborn, DH many times suggested I give him Benadryl for DS to sleep at night. I told him he must be CRAZY! No way!!! That's the wierdest thing about having kids, that I find out all these wierd, and very sad, things that MIL did to her kids while she raised them.

[ashleyhaugh]

my sil did that with my nephews.... we took the oldest one on a week long road trip to see my dh graduate basic training when he was about 4 1/2, and she sent a bunch of benadryl "to help him sleep"

funny, in the almost 4 years id known him at that point, and all the times hed spent the weekend at my house (usually at least once a month) hed never had trouble sleeping...

[MommyCarla]

i heard about that case with the daycare provider. it was on court tv, which my mom watches regularly. she told me about it. so sad

i don't see how parents can give their child a needless medicine every day don't they realize that it is very harmful? if not, i hope someone tells them that it can cause problems, even death.

[turtlewomyn]

Originally Posted by USAmma

There was a baby a few years ago that died in the care of a daycare provider. It turned out that the daycare provider was putting Benedryl in the bottle. The baby got an overdose. How sad is that? It can be so, so dangerous to give something like this. I remember in the article, the mom said that on weekends her baby was not a good napper, but the daycare provider had said that the baby always napped well at her house, for most of the afternoon.

I had heard about this too, and she didn't have the parents permission to even be giving the benedryl at all.

[kdf]

I think that "drugging" your baby to sleep is awful. My ds hasn't been a good sleep up until resently and I would of never thought of giving him something to get to sleep. It is hard enough to break other habits that he uses to get to sleep never mind a drug habit. My ds doesn't get meds for anything. He takes a health juice which is an anti inflammatory, anti histaime pretty much anti everything and he never had anything pain for teething. Yes he was up in the night but we just played until he was tired again and then went back to sleep. We don't know what kind of effects giving your babies meds is going to have on them when they grow up. IMO meds are poison and none of my ds will ever take them. IMO

[NotTheOnlyOne]

check out this article, read the whole thing..... It may change your mind about giving benadryl to make your child sleepy. http://www.oweb.com/state/story/08162003_sta3.asp

[rouserstrousers]

My mom tells me to do this pretty frequently. I'm fairly sure she did the same thing to me and my sister when we were kids. Not every night of course, but occasionally.

[leximom]

OMG this woman gave a 3 and a half month old baby a tablespoon of benadryl every afternoon! wow

[nextcommercial]

LOL.... I have drugged my kid too.

When she broke her leg, I gave her The Motrin and Benadryl together. Just hoping she could sleep a little.

Then when she was 12, and got braces, I drugged the living snot out of her. You have not heard whining til you have listened to a 12 year old with a new set of braces. She actually begged to be knocked out. (she had a lot more than just braces done that day though)

When I worked at a daycare center in 1982, we put Robitussin in EVERY bottle for EVERY baby EVERY day. We never told the parents of course. My director told me it was to keep the kids healthy. LOL. Eventually I learned that cold medicine is not a cure for a cold. But, I was young then. When I figured that out, along with a bunch of other things, I turned them in to the health dept, and quit my job.

[kriskriskris]

That makes me so sad to read that people do this on purpose... I took my 7 month old to the doctor last because for the last 3 weeks she had been sick with somthing, cold, then croupe, which then led to an ear infection. Well she still had a raspy sound in her chest so I took her back to the ped., we are almost sure she has allergies (I had been ignoring some of the signs because I DIDNT want to medicate her) well the ped. told me to give her benydral for a week and call her back to let her know if it was helping...
It just makes me so sad that people would give meds on purpose to thier children when they dont need them because I am here struggling to give them to my DD and it is actually helping her to breathe better at night..
Very Sad

[kriskriskris]

Originally Posted by leximom

OMG this woman gave a 3 and a half month old baby a tablespoon of benadryl every afternoon! wow

Can you say OVERDOSE! My ped. recommended only 1/2 tsp for my 7 month 19 pounder... that poor baby!

[jenn5388]

I really don't have issues for using meds when miranda is sick or in pain, but using it strickly because I want her to sleep, that's like Abuse. Tylenol is bad for you, I know this, and even more so if you have to switch drugs because your child has grown IMMUNE to it. That's way too much use.

I have Asthma and HORRIBLE allergies, which in turn make my asthma worse, so I'm on allergy meds everyday. I grow Immune to them and have to switch brands every couple of months. Glad I haven't gotten Immune to my Albuterol. lol

I wonder what is wrong with people.