Calpol syrup and anti-histamine syrup being used frequently.  There is a 
brand with both combined, that is used a great deal at the moment.

My next door neighbour, who has three sons in their twenties, asked how 
my then 3 month old was doing, and when I said fine, said "It's that 
spoonful of calpol in their last bottle, that's the magic."  So they'd 
each been dosed every single night.  It's also common to double the 
amount of formula powder at night. 

A recent anonymous survey on one of the Mum's forums, asked if the Mum 
had ever drugged their baby to sleep, and 70% of those said yes... 
that's how I knew about the combined paracetamol and anti-histamine syrup...

Any formula claiming sleep properties will be readily snatched up here, 
I imagine.  For those who've not read it, the report on how mothers 
discuss formula and it's various attributes online, by the Caroline 
Walker Trust, is well worth a read. 

"I hear it's the closest to breast milk":    
http://www.cwt.org.uk/pdfs/Formula_PTBReport.pdf

Rather frightening to consider the effect of this sort of 'sleep 
inducing' formula AND dosing the baby with pain killers and anti-histamines.

Morgan Gallagher

Helen Butler wrote:
> The drugging of babies continued in Britain at least,  a pharmacist 
> friend whose baby was around the same age as my son told me in a 
> discussion  of sleep we were having [about 23 years ago] that  when 
> she was newly qualified that lots of  mothers used to come in and get 
> phenergan for their babies to get them to sleep,  but that fewer did   
> at that time.  I had never heard of it and was horrified.   It was 
> suggested to  me to  a friend's wife a year later for help with 
> teething - she'd used it with hers,  one of which was younger than my 
> son.  Maybe mothers still use it but  not so openly.
> just done a quick google on it and found this 2009 leaflet from the 
> BMJ where it is suggested.  Despite the claim that it is based on  
> the  most up to date research there is not a single reference on the 
> leaflet.
>

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