It's a diagnosis that scares the pants off me, because my nephew, aged three, is still partially tube-fed. There are degrees of reflux. It's something that runs in my family - my mother now believes it's the reason she and her mother had such a lousy relationship; my mother was "a cranky baby" and my grandmother couldn't handle that. My nephew wasn't a cranky baby, he just almost died.

I'm not surprised Alex has mastered her milestones early - her new-baby photos were *very* unusually alert. The only other baby I've seen that I thought looked that alert was my own, and there's bound to be some maternal bias at work there.

I'm glad it's getting better. For everyone's sake.