First tooth

After many days of chewing on everything and lots of drooling, Brie's first tooth broke through yesterday. She has been pretty pleasant through the entire thing and I did not even expect to find anything in there. It seems like she has been teething forever, but she never really complains about her teeth.

Maybe it was a combination of her teething and her cold that made her eat poorly the past week. She has been eating better the last 2 days. Yesterday she took 25 oz, which is great for her. We have increased the calories to 22 per oz, but I am hesitant to go any higher. Looking back at our feeding diary when we went to the 24 cal on the nutramigen that is when the vomiting began again. So far she has not vomited the Elecare. I may call the nutritionist on Monday to see if there is anything else we can add to the formula to make it more calories that is not so rough on her little tummy. We also started adding probiotics to her bottle to see if it helps.

She has also been doing a little better on her solids. Today she had some squash for breakfast and some chicken noodle dinner for supper. She loves to chew on baby toast and puffs. I found some baby dried apples and she loves them. Yesterday she actually took a portion of 3 of her bottles awake. A real accomplishment. Today she took a few sucks awake and then was done. I have been letting her play with her bottle for as long as she wants before every feeding to get her used to it again. Also we have been giving her a pacifier to suck on during the day. She mostly plays with it, but occasionally she will suck on it. Next week we go to the feeding center in NJ. I spoke to the therapist on the phone a few times and she really seems to know what she is doing. She is the first one who has actually been willing to help and not to dismiss us. Both feeding clinics we went to were of no help. St. Josephs kept throwing different medications at us and chop just told us that there must be something medically wrong and we need to find it. This therapist we are seeing on Wednesday wanted to make sure there was nothing medically wrong before we see her and now that Brie has had her endoscopy she is willing to start therapy. I think that the reason she does not eat is that in the beginning she was in pain from the reflux and we were to persistent with her and forced her to eat. That made for a negative experience. Then when we got the reflux under control she was still uncomfortable because of the milk and continued to refuse. Now that she is comfortable it has been so long since she had to eat awake she does not know how. Hopefully with some help from feeding therapy we can get our little peanut eating better again and get her growing. Incidentally her weight yesterday was 15 lbs 1.5 oz so she is back up the where she was before she got sick.