I do a nice line in incy wincy spider!
I got a book from my HV full of rhymes and actions to do.
Appointment with dietician was interesting. She doesn't see a need to rush to weaning but also had some interesting chat about 'early' weaning. She says the worldwide advice is a combination of trying to encourage better health practices across the world and also to try to get people to wait until 4 months at least. She said when the guidelines said 4 months people did it at 3 months and so on. Apparently there was a big furore in the dietician community because there is no evidence that waiting until 6 month makes any difference re allergies. She said it was more important to understand clear signs of a baby being actually ready and work from that. Signs such as a weakened tongue thrust reflex - p showed her awesomely strong tongue thrust by pinging her dummy out of her mouth just as we were mentioning it.
So, in short careful weaning when the baby is physically ready is key for reflux. She did say that reflux babies can be harder to wean due to some natural anxieties about putting things in their mouths. They like to be able to discern exactly what it is. Apparently they are not keen on various things mixed together because they can't work out what it is.
She also wants us to move from IG to carobel. I must admit to being a bit reluctant as I was feeling ok about IG. She feels that while p is not strictly constipated her daily play doh poo while help by me is not ok.
Anyone got any advice about carobel? Might go off and start a thread about it.