Hi there, not a comment on todays post, sorry. But I just had to let you know your column has come in very handy indeed. I'm almost seven months pregnant. Not one person has ever told me how incredibly excurciating and searing heartburn can be. Even the ads on TV make it look like a bit of discomfort, not a crippling pain. So whenever you've mentioned getting called out to a pregnant woman with severe pain only it turns out to be heartburn, I've thought they were a bit neurotic (or nuts!). I've a lot more sympathy now! One day between Christmas and New Year I must have bent over in such a way that the entire contents of my stomach were squeezed upwards. I've never been in such agony (to date at least - there's labour to come yet). If I hadn't read your site I'd have probably have completely panicked. As it was, I slurped down nearly a pint of milk (ugh hate the stuff) and a bottle of Gaviscon, and the pain went from searing to just sore in about an hour. I wish someone would tell us about these things. Before getting pregnant I'd never had heartburn at all, so was unprepared entirely for it.