Woodwards Gripe Water

I have used Woodward's gripe water with both of my babies so have had a lot of experience with this product. Gripe water is for babies who suffer regularly from colic and trapped wind. It works by breaking down the air bubbles that form when wind is trapped and so realises them causing relief for your baby. Gripe water can be bought from Tesco for around £1.49 which is much cheaper than other brands of colic relievers such as Dentinox colic drops. For £1.49 you get a 150ml glass bottle. This comes in a cardboard box with Gripe water written in pink and blue and a picture of a baby on the front. Gripe water is not suitable for babies under one ...  Read the complete review

As soon as my son was a month old i started using gripe water with him to help with wind. You can buy it in all supermarkets as well as boots stores, i get mine from asda, i believe it's £1.66 for a 150ml bottle, so much cheaper than some of the other products available for this problem. Children under 1 month cannot use this product, 1-6 mths have 5ml after each feed and 6-12mth 10ml after each feed. The packaging is simple and looks quite old fashioned with a drawing of a baby on the front. After each feed i give my son 5ml of gripe water, i put the medicine in a teat and feed it to him that way. When you wind your child, s/he ...  Read the complete review

I've been using this since my first baby and I'm also using it for my second who's 4 months old. You can use it from 1 month old. I bought it in Tesco for £1.91 which is a lot cheaper than many pharmacies but you have to throw it away within 2 weeks of opening. It works like this: Dill Seed Oil- warming the babies tummy to relax muscle spasms and Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate- neutralising acid in the babies tummy. Therefore resulting in usually a massive burp. Mine usually do a few little ones. It doesn't contain alcohol or sugar but it does contain preservatives so if you think your baby's sensitive to them then be careful. These are E217, ...  Read the complete review

I bought this from Boots at first and it colst £2.89, yet I later discovered Asda selling the same size bottle for just £1.55! It comes in a clear glass bottle with a white screw-on lid. The box it comes in is quite old-fashioned looking. The real purpose of gripe water when giving it to babies is that it tends to quickly get them to bring up a big burp. In this sense it definately worked! However it was not enough to help a baby crippled with wind, because no matter how many burps he got up he still screamed in agony as he had colic. However where it was useful is that LO loved the taste (and a lot of my friends' babies did too) and often in a colicky ...  Read the complete review

When I had my first child, Christopher, he suffered terrible colic, we tried all sorts of treatments for it including Woodwards Gripe Water, my mum had recommended it as she used it when myself and my siblings were babies, I thought it worth a try after all a product that had been around for so many years had to be good. Unfortunately for Christopher his colic was quite severe and, despite experimenting with different ways of administering the gripe water, there was simply no improvement, after a few experiments with different brand treatments we eventually settled on Dentinox which seemed to ease his pain. I was blessed with my second child, Elsa, that she suffered ...  Read the complete review