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She REALLY got none in her mouth, huh? NONE.
How about when she falls asleep? But remember, if little Baby Blue sputters and wakes up, this assvice comes to you from childless girl. I will not be held liable.
Oh, that is very funny, especially with LG's comment at the end!
(I know, not so funny in real life.)
Two thoughts -- and these are only out of cat-related experience, so take with grain of salt (at least babies don't have claws...)
Have you tried pulling a baby t-shirt or similar over her head so that her arms are trapped inside? That might help free up another adult hand.
On the syringe -- is it possible to pull away a bit of the corner of her mouth and squirt it into her cheek, aiming toward the back? That's how we did it with our cat, and it worked better than trying to shoot it straight down her gullet. We'd hold her mouth shut and stroke her throat to make her swallow.
Anyway, good luck!
Oh, Lord. I am so glad my children are old now. #2 Son had a gift for projectile-vomiting all medicines. Those were hard days. But wait a minute, and she will be 14, and you will wonder where the time went...
Some pharmacies offer to add flavoring to children's prescriptions. That might help.
When we give Ivy her vitamins, we put her in her high chair and then sneak up behind her and squirt it in her mouth before she realizes what's happening.
Oops. I meant to also add that sometimes sneaking up on her works, but usually she ends up with sticky nastiness all over her neck. Yum.
ok, here is how we do it... hubby lays his arm across baby arms and body and holds head with other hand... mom (me) gets the meds ready and holds baby's jaw open and puts the dropper in the mouth way back there and does a little at a time so that baby is forced to swallow...
or we put the meds in a bottle top, but since you arent using bottles that might not work...
can I be added to your photo list, please? (it wont hurt my feelings if you say no - I understand - Im a mom too)
LG is the funniest kid.
Also, love that tiny little pool of pink waaaay over by the chair. She's so proud of herself!
I have no advice, but DAMN I love reading what everyone else has to say. I especially like Rana's baby-straitjacket suggestion. 
Ooo, we tried the baby-straitjacket route, it made her hysterically angry. Projectile spitting out of radioactive pink liquid followed. But maybe we'll try sitting her in the high chair, so that we have a free hand to tug open a corner of her mouth for slipping it into her cheek -- which does work well, when we can get her to open her @#$%$# mouth!
Besides which, that high chair is so disgusting that a little antibiotic can't possibly make any difference...
SFW is 17 and we still have this sort of thing when it comes to medications. The whole ordeal changes a bit when you're fighting a 6'3", 230 lb. kid. Not fun.
Hope everyone is feeling better soon. Taking care of sick kids is no fun.
Hey, what if YOU take the medicine--couldn't she get it while nursing?
It's all I've got.
My vet makes a little pill plunger....and i rub her little throat until she swallows.....or i put it on her nose and then she'll lick it off....oh wait, it's a kid, not a cat....
i got nothin
Ewwww, me take that stuff? Pththffffffff!!!
(Ewww, I got radioactive pink antibiotics all over my blog!)
I like the putting the medication on the nose trick. Maybe I could put it on her toes, she likes to eat those....
My god, Friday Mom, how DO you handle it???
Ever read that thing about how to give a cat a pill? QED (If not let me know - will find it and paste it in - funny in a painful sort of way)
Wow. I don't know how people do it.
I actually do know a _good_ way to give a cat a pill. It's not funny, but it works.
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