Competition run from 31st May to 3rd June 2017 to win one of our cups.

Members were asked: Post the way you have looked after yourself whilst surviving infant/child gastric reflux.

• I would get my husband to take the baby when he woke in the morning so I could get a few extra minutes of sleep before getting up for the day.

• My first, I’m really not sure how I survived?! My second, an electric swing was our best friend, worked well for her, also had a much more helpful partner to take turns pacing the house.

• I nap when ever I can. Screw the house work or jobs. Sleep is more important.
  Ive also had a few massages which help heaps when im so tired that I get angry easily.
  Also meal prep in advance for my lunches and snacks. It means i can just pull good food out easily while comforting my screaming child.

• A cleaner, 2 hrs a fortnight makes such an amazing difference! Sitting in a clean house rocking a baby is so much nicer, and worth the investment for us 

•  I decided it was completely fine that I stopped cleaning the house while we were struggling with this 

• I’m loving the suggestions. It is 16 years since my girl with Gastric Reflux was a baby so how I coped is a bit of a blur. I had fantastic neighbours who would help out or visit. They were the third set of “grandparents”.

• My first was attached to me her entire first year so not a lot of relaxing there! My second we bought a natures sway hammock which enabled me to put him down, Amazing! Plus having mother in law come and look after number one for a day, priceless 

• I bought a nature sway hammock  So I could sit down with a coffee once in a while.

• I had a gorgeous teenage girl who would come in three afternoons a week to help look after my older two, or she did errands for me, or I got a nap in.

Origin:https://www.facebook.com/NationalInfantAndChildGastricRefluxAwarenessWeek/posts/1593381800703218