The following list is of some remedies that have been passed down from differing old wise men (witch doctors basically) who have doctored the art of using any old household item to help with a baby's ailments.

Disclaimer – these are NOT medically proven but more home proven ... they may work on your baby and they may not. Always make sure you seek health care professionals advice before trying anything you aren't sure about.

And by the way - we'd love to hear your grandpa's remedies also!

Teething:
* Small baby's bottle almost filled with cold boiled water with teat and cover on, placed in freezer on it's side to freeze so that teat is full. Wrap in face cloth as it is too cold to handle for too long, and give to child to suck to sooth gums and help keep fluid intake up.

I was really looking forward to the day when we could finally start feeding our little one other foods (other than breast milk) … and he took to it really well! The problem is at the other end though – we’re back to the constipation scenario now. After the usual trial and error process we found out that baby rice really isn’t great for our baby’s bowel movements.

We’ve had a history of constipation with Noah over the last few months. Apparently it is unusual for breast fed babies to have this problem but well … it just happened. Fortunately it usually cleared again after a week or so and using prune juice certainly helped. As soon as we started with baby rice that strategy went down the toilet … or actually it didn’t. The stuff is literally like glue – no matter how much water you add it always ends up sticky after a given period. I tried this out by just letting it sit in a cup with water for a while and baby rice really has an amazing capacity to absorb water. Obviously it keeps doing that even after it’s been swallowed!