Does anyone know whether starting on solids helps with the reflux? And if so, what age I could start my girls on solids?

Solids didn't really help me and I had 3 days at 4.5 mths with solids and then waited until we hit the 6 month mark.

I think that it is dependent on what is exacerbatiing the reflux for your girls - I always was frantically trying to get my milk issues sorted before I introduced anything new into the mix. Some reflux is body part - some is body part plus exacerbated by food issues.

Now at 10mths we just have silent reflux (but still reflux) and that is pretty much on no milk.

For allergy/intolerance reasons if you can wait until 6 months then it is worth it

Hiya dolphin.
Reef (my first boy) still had lots of silent reflux issues when he started solids. This continued on till he was about 8 months when he was upright alot more and 9 months when he started walking.. the reflux improved immensely. We also then had the issues of ezcema, etc starting... (obviously food intolerances)... so the solids didn't do much help!..
how are the girls doing on their meds and are they both on the soy formula or just Jessica/??
I hope they are getting some relief!
hugs

Our kids all settled a bit once they were on solids, mainly because they were very hungry before that.
We introduced the food VERY slowly, starting with baby rice and then introducing a new flavour once a week, we also kept a food diary so we could see easily if they reacted to any foods. I would recommend the Annabelle Carmel cookbooks for ideas on what foods and at what ages, although my kids never ate lumpy food, they went straight from puree to finger food!?
Most people seem to reckon that it is best to wait until at least 4 months old to try solid food.
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This is the first chance I've had to be online for a few days now! - just had a rough few days. after behaving so well on thursday they really played up on friday. i ended up taking them for a 2 hour walk in the afternoon to keep them quiet, and then driving into town (from manurewa) to pick up my DH as the car ride kept them quiet. The paed wanted to try lowering the dosage of losec, so we dropped it from 10mg to 7.5mg on saturday and by saturday afternoon we knew that for Jessica it was way too low!! So she's been spilling acid (man it stinks! even more than soya!) and been so unhappy and crying that it's been so hard to get her settled. Even last night - she was fine for the first half of the night, but then really unsettled for the rest.

Claire's been okay at the lower dosage, but still had a bad patch yesterday afternoon from 4 till 6 and is doing the same today. We put Jessica straight back up onto 10mg this morning, but we've kept Claire at the 7.5mg. So I'll ring the Paed again tomorrow morning and talk to him about where to next. I will definitely keep Jessica up, and may even increase this if needed - but will give it another week for her poor osophogus (sp??) to recover. I think we'll try Claire at the lower dose for another few days and see how we go. But DH will HAVE to be home from work by 4:30 every day this week!! 2 screaming, unsettled, refluxy babies is one too many!!

Poor Jessica is now crying every time I put her on my shoulder to burp her after a feed, cause she knows it's going to hurt. breaks my heart that there's nothing more I can do to help ... The Paed has sent off for the number for prescription soya from whanganui, so we'll get that plus a prescription for the soya this week sometime. Jessica is soooo much more settled on this. I asked the Paed about soya versus Pepti jn or neocate, and he says that he's happy for her to stay on soya as it seems to be working. He also said that there's no reasearch showing issues of the phyto-estrogens affecting long term use of soya. so that was reasurring.

Thanks for all your ideas and support ladies!! It really helps keep me going.