This is how you give an infant eye drops

Aaron is on two types of drops to control his congenital glaucoma before surgery and we had tried a variety of methods to get them into his eyes including:

• Holding him like a newborn and leaning his head back (he pinched his eyes so tight we'd have needed a vice to get in there)
• Putting him over the shoulder and bending over (see above)
• Putting him in the jumperoo, tipping the jumperoo upside down and one of us distracted him with the toys while the other squirted drops (this was mildly effective but hit and miss)

It's tricky enough trying to get him the drops spaced 12 hours apart as his sleep is so erratic right now. Couple that with the fact that Adam can't always get home from work before Aaron's bedtime (and none of the above methods can be attempted solo, at least not in our house) and we were desperate.

I did a bit of searching and found the most helpful video from Moorfields for giving eye drops to infants or young children:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3wtEWX7HxU

I went with the method of putting him between my legs, sitting on his arms, squeezing the drops into the corner of his eye and then gently working his eyelids until the drops go in. Pleasant it's not but there's less screaming each time and it's been 100% effective. Fingers crossed that these drops help!