Reed All About It!

There's no place like home...
           After a long day of appointments, there really is no place like home. Even if it's a home that's destroyed because we got up late this morning, it's home. Somehow by the Grace of God Bricen is napping. He fell asleep on the way home and is still asleep. Here's the new plan. A new formula. We are switching from Enfamil Enfacare 24 cal to Peptamin Jr. which is  30 cal formula. I will admit and I shared this with the GI nurtitionist that this makes me nervous. Her response was we can always go back. Oh if it was only that simple. But I do appreciate her words.
          I pray he tolerates the change well. No. I pray he does awesome with the change!!! I mean, if the man can walk on water, I can ask for awesome, right? :0) I was praying for these appointments before we even went. I prayed that God gave me the verbage to paint the picture of our current feeds, his eating habits, throw ups, etc. in a way that would guide these providers to help us takes steps forward. So, even if he does horrible with this, I know God is still in control, taking care of us in ways that we cannot always see. We also have some new things to try from the speech therapy perspective and mouth feeds. Peanut butter (who doesn't like peanut butter), butter, puree ravioli, cream of chicken soup, instant mashed potatoes with vegetables in them and fried, as well as pancakes with vegetables fried, and crackers.  14lbs 9oz today. Not bad considering we are in middle of a feeding trial and not doing so great with it and getting over the virus. She is okay with his weight gain but would like to see an increase in his average daily wt. gain. Yes, yes I would too. :0) Oh, and we switched to a pill for prevacid that can be crushed and put in Gtube. No more calling all our surrounding pharmacies every month looking for someone that has some sodium bicarb left to mix his liquid prevacid because the bicarb is on backorder. Yay. ..............................................................scratch that. CVS just called and said they need a prior auth for insurance to cover. Stinkin' insurance. I have a love hate relationship for insurance companies. They tend to rule the world at times. But I'm so thankful for it at the same time!