In the past 2 weeks of working with Abby we are now to the point where we hardly ever have to say "open ahh" or "big ahh" she just does it! She sees the spoon coming and she opens right up - we have been getting her feeds done in 5-10 minutes. WOW! What a difference! Thank you Allyne for helping us out SO much, we can't wait to see how Abby checks out in a few months!
I mentioned in a previous post that we noticed Abby's tummy feeling pretty hard and full after feeds... well I think we reached her limit the other day when we offered her some mac n cheese noodles, and then 2 hours later she was throwing up and throwing up, poor baby. Allyne seems to think that Abby may have some volume intolerance issues, and the pasta was just too much for her tummy to digest and clogged her up. So we are going to keep the volume right where its at for now 1.5 oz puree 3x a day and 1 oz Carnation Instant Breakfast milk 3x a day.
We were having such a hard time with Abby's milk feeds, most of the milk ended up all over her bib and chair, so I asked Allyne if it were okay to maybe try and thicken the milk into a light pudding so that we could spoon feed it to her. Allyne was down to give it a try so we added some organic corn starch to thicken up the milk and guess what, Abby took it with no problems and ate it in 3 minutes! Hooray!! I also did a little test and gave her 1 milk feed while playing with toys and 1 milk feed while watching the iPad. Well when she was watching the iPad she would barely open her mouth - I think she was too zoned in and she couldn't do two things at once! hehe. So toys it is!
Thank you to everyone who has been following Abby's journey and keeping her (and us) lifted in prayer! We are SO grateful and appreciative!
Here's a cute video of Abby "reading" her "book" lol she is getting cuter by the day! Watch for the hand gesture and PAH! LOL (If you can't view the video, click here).
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