When does reflux end?

[PrettyCandles]

Ds2 is 17m, and he still, occasionally, projectiles his milk, but only if he hasn't eaten much that day. He doesn't project it far - still keeps it off his own clothes, though!

When will he stop?!

It calmed down with Ds2 when he was 15 months and walking .

He would still be sick and gag if he had a cold etc but certainity not throwing up at every meal time .

erm..........

mine gradually got less and less severe on the run up to their second b/day (3 of mine were severe refluxers), and almost stopped by the time they did turn 2.

BUT, when ill, they continued being able to projectile, and even now they are sick more often, and with more ease, than my other 2. I think that the valve does get stronger, but never gets to be as strong as a child who never had reflux IYGWIM.

I too was apparently a severe refluxer, and now I still suffer heartburn occasionally, and my gag reflex is very sensitive. In fact, I can 'think myself sick' if needs be, which I used to do when pregnant and feeling so yack that I thought I would feel better if I was in fact sick IYGWIM. never helped tho, I still felt rough!

So, what you're saying is that it will stop being routine (which it has done already) but will become more dramatic and a pain-in-the-ahem.

Interesting about the valve. I don't think ds1 had reflux, he barely ever vomited as a baby, but he vomits far more easily and dramatically now than dd does, whereas dd did have reflux and puked, possetted and drooled her way through infancy until it stopped, very suddenly, at 18m.

But neither dd nor ds2 have or had severe reflux - compared to what I read on MN, theirs' was quite mild!