Hi girls!

Sorry I haven't been here for a few days - way behind on the thread, so sorry for not too many personal replies.

Alison - I second the use of a neti pot. I use one every day and find that it helps amazingly with not getting too many colds. It's kind of gross doing it while you're congested, but it feels so good afterwards.

I can't remember who was asking about baby led weaning books. I've only read one, which is considered to be the "bible" - Baby Led Weaning by Gill Rapley. I haven't actually started BLW properly yet with Liam, but will be doing so soon.

Liam's actually doing really well with solids - he's eager for them and manages to eat quite a bit of his rice cereal. I've been giving him the Rafferty's Garden stuff as well. Have some Farex, but haven't tried that yet, since I really prefer to give him as much organic food as possible. I tried him on avocado this week, but I don't think he liked it much! I'm following the guidelines of only introducing single foods every four days just to make sure that he doesn't have any reactions. I am doing some purees to begin with, and will start him on finger foods soon.

Since we started the solids and increased his reflux meds, he's been doing a lot better. He's still waking 2-3 times at night, but it's only to feed each time and he goes back to sleep well. He's even been napping a bit better - have managed hour-long naps the last two afternoons, which is awesome. I hope it continues. He's definitely been in a growth spurt, too - he gained 500g in a week! He's growing out of a bunch of his nappies and clothes.