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Can someone please give me some advice as to what positions to avoid or positions that would help a baby that has a reflux problem. The baby is in my class so I would like to be as knowledgable as possible.

I have heard that inversion are good for this, if so, please can someone explain why so that I can relay this to mum.

Thanks v much 

Hi Clare

I am not a yoga teacher but an infant aquatics teacher, I am also a mummy to a now 3 year old who suffered badly from reflux up until quite recently. My advice would be to keep him upright and avoid lying on the back as this causes the acid to rise back up the oesophagus which my little one is now able to describe as fire in his throat. I'd be interested to know if inversions are a good idea too.

Sara

Hi Clare,

I am the administrator for this site.  I want to encourage everyone to use the resources already here (as well as here what others are learning - hint, hint to all you experienced Birthlighters) and so I took the word "reflux" and put it into the search function (top righthand corner of this site's pages) and got 10 hits which you can see here:

 http://birthlightforum.com/search/SearchResults.aspx?q=reflux

You will find that there is one hit from the old forums.  If you click on its link you will be taken to a web page that has many posts from the old days and the reflux discussion is buried in there somewhere.  It may help you to pinpoint where it is in there by using your Internet Explorer search function to search the page once you get there (go to EDIT -> FIND ON THIS PAGE from the Internet Explorer menu).

Cheers,
Jeff
PS. If you have any trouble let me know and I'll be glad to help.