Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Visit at Chop's feeding clinic

Well today we went to chop. After evaluations with the nurse practitioner, speech therapist, occupational therapist, and nutritionist they all agree that there is some medical reason why she is not eating. The think an endoscopy is the way to go. This is a test where they put Brie to sleep and look at her stomach with a camera. They can take biopsies to see if she has an allergy to milk or if there is any inflammation. After talking to the GI doctor on Monday she is scheduled for the test Dec 1st. We also switched her to a hypoallergenic formula. Since we have made the switch she has not vomited and seems pretty happy. I think the taste is quite different then breast milk, but she seems to be getting used to it. Yesterday for the first time in a week she actually took 24 oz. Prior to that we were averaging about 16 oz. I also weighed her last night and she was 14 lbs 10.5 oz so she is back where she was a week ago. Hopefully this new formula does the trick and we can get our little girl feeling better. We are going to progressively make it 24 calories per oz rather then 20 so hopefully that will help with weight gain.

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