>My second child had reflux and excema.  Taking dairy products out of my
>diet eliminated the excema but NOT the reflux.  I kept her upright most
>of her first six months of life.  I did not feed her lying down.  We got
>up and nursed in the rocker at night.  If I was too tired to hold her
>after she fell asleep, I put her in the crib which had an elevated
>mattress on one end.  The crib was next to my bed so I could hear if she
>began to spit up.  She stopped spitting up at six months of age.

I do think that we need to be mindful that reflux can be caused by more
than one problem. Sometimes it may be dairy (allergy), but it can also be
a loose esophageal sphincter.  I had one baby of four with the latter,
and he spat up until he became vertical-- learned to walk, also
regardless of diet.  Another baby I worked with who had severe reflux
ended up developing pyloric stenosis and had surgery.

-Lisa Marasco, BA, IBCLC