Not Quite a Feeding Clinic Update

Hey, Mom, put down the camera and lemme at that pizza and those bananas. At Wolfgang Puck's in the AA terminal at O'Hare. Charlotte ate nearly all of a container of Gerber Organic Bananas and had (and chewed) about 5 bites of my pizza.

We had a flat tire in Racine and had to wait 45 minutes to help. The receptionist told us that the team wouldn’t be able to squeeze us in late (understandably) so, once repaired, we turned around and went home.

I’m trying to reschedule, if nothing works out for this week, our next appointment on 7/12 (the whole family, including birthday boy Daddy).

In the meantime, since you're all dying to know how she is eating: Charlotte is eating like crazy. She’s averaging 2 to 4 tablespoons of puree a meal and getting to 180-200 mls. of Pediasure fairly consistently throughout the day. Midge, the dietician/nutritionist at CHOW tells me that this is 1,200 or more calories a day (her recommended diet is aorund 900 calories a day) and that, based on her most recent food journal, she's taking 90% of those calories orally.

Charlotte and Nemo, the flying fish, get a tour of the cockpit from Christine, our fab flight attendant, after landing in Newark 2 weekends ago.

She’s starting to really open her mouth. I bought some The First Years Take & Toss spoons when we were out of town and they seem to do the trick.

But…she’s vomiting almost daily again. Frequently it’s fairly large (4-6 ounces). Yesterday morning with Laura she ate 2 tbls. of egg puree, 2 tbls. of applesauce, and 200 mls. of Pediasure. about 5 minutes after she finished, she vomited all of it back up. Maybe even more than all of it.


We're working (via email) with Midge and Trina (our RN at CHOW) to make sure that Charlotte's meds are the correct dosage for her weight and then to reduce her caloric intake in case she's vomiting because she's getting too much. Yep, you read that correctly! After 2 years of worrying that Charlotte was not getting enough nutrition, we're finally concerned that she might be getting too much. Hurray!