Mason had his first official feeding therapy session this past Wednesday. He was not impressed haha! He did participate a little in touching the food she put on his tray but mostly wanted to sit in my lap. She was kind of "in his face" a little much for me but maybe we are just used to Austins speech therapist who seems really at ease with little ones. :) She gave us some "homework" and some handouts to read.

The nurse for his GI doc also called and said it's to early for allergy testing so she wasn't sure why the therapist was recommending that for right now. The earliest they could get reliable results would be age 2. We still haven't met with the pediatric dietician and it sounds like we might not. The speech therapist lady is thinking she can just pass along the food journal and weekly weights and get his opinion and recommendations. I personally would like a better idea of how many calories to aim for but I'll bring it up next week if she doesn't let me know herself. Mason had a couple day stretch where he was eating a few puffs a day and now he has regressed and won't touch them. Stinker!

Can't believe he is already 16 months old. He runs everywhere! Also has 10 teeth now with 2 more working their way through.


Really hoping the weather gets a bit more sunny after naptime because we are planning to take the boys to the only dairy farm in Fort Wayne for their fall festival. This is the first year this farm has done this and this happens to also be the last weekend for it before they close to the public. Nothing like procrastination on our part haha. Austin is excited to see the cows! :)

Mason had his feeding therapy evaluation yesterday morning. It went ok...just asked me lots of questions and took a lot of notes. We are going to write down everything he eats/drinks for the next 7 days along with behaviors occuring during mealtime and how we respond to them. Then we will meet with the pediatric dietician...who also happens to be the NICU dietician so I see him weekly or so in the unit with our neonates haha. So *maybe* we will get some answers soon?! I dont know.

The speech therapist (that's who handles feeding behavior in infants/children in case ya didn't know) went over how the weekly therapy would work for Mason. She questions potentially more allergies...asked me if I noticed reactions to stuff he's had lately...when I couldn't give enough evidence of a no answer she decided to suggest the food journal.

She will send her notes and potentially plan to his Pediatrician and his GI doc. Then we go from there after all the docs collaborate and the peds dietician gives his input. Sounds like life is about to get even more busy.


Austin continues to do great and I'm hoping to introduce potty training (again) on this 4 day stretch that I have off starting tomorrow. :) Hate writing a blog post without including him haha. :)


Acuity at work has been SKY HIGH!! Everyone is ready for a break. I was busy until 6:53pm tonight and I leave at 7pm (yes I actually looked at the clock haha!). Talk about barely getting done before its time to leave. My lunch was inhaled in about 5 minutes today because I got called down to a stat c-section too...It's just been insane for about 2 weeks now. We all blame the 50 shades of Grey triology still having an effect on the baby boom lol! ....in reality it's likely because of the new Maternal-Fetal Medicine doc that started within the last few months so we get a ton of high risk babies since she has her patients deliver at Parkview.

Mason had his GI appt last week. Went ok. We are going to trial using Prilosec for 2 weeks at bedtime to see if he does have reflux affecting his sleep. So far it hasn't helped ha! He said his first recommendation would be a feeding evaluation...which we already have set up for Wednesday morning so that's good. We did talk a bit about the possible workup and diagnosis for Eosinophilic Esophagitis. He also mentioned the somewhat likely possibility of a congenital stricture in his esophagus which does makes sense since it wouldn't have affected him when he was a infant and only drinking breastmilk/or his puramino formula.

To evaluate for EE we would have to sedate him for a endoscopy to take a biopsy of his esophagus. To evaluate for a congenital stricture he would have to have a swallow study which would entail him drinking his formula with barium contrast mixed in to they could watch how it travels on xray.

Anxious to see how his feeding evaluation goes. His GI doc did say that the nightime wake ups could very likely just be that he is not developmentally ready to sleep alone all night.

Prayers appreciated!! :)