GI Clinic

The GI clinic had a cancellation on Wednesday so I took Gracie in for a consultation. I mostly talked to the nurse and she asked all about Gracie and her history. The nurse left and went to talk to Dr. Jackson and they both came back in. They agreed that her relux medication doses were too low and almost tripled some of them. They want me to try that first and see how she does. If she does not improve then we will try different formulas. (By the way, Gracie cried the ENTIRE 2 hours that I was in the clinic--good times!) So now she is on the following doses of reflux meds:

Zantac .7ml 3 times a day
Reglan .6m. 4 times a day
Prevacid 3.1 ml once a day

So far, it has not made a difference. About 3 weeks ago, I started having to give Gracie half of her food for the day in formula because I was running out of my milk. For the last 1 1/2 weeks or so we have had to give her about 80% of her day's milk in formula. I think this may be the problem. I don't think she is agreeing with all that Pregestimil. I have about 4 bags of milk left in my freezer and I am experimenting today with all fortified freezer milk to see if it makes any difference. I am a little sad that I am not providing her enough milk anymore, but I figure pumping for 7 1/2 months is pretty good.

Gracie is still quite fussy. She has a fairly good day once and a while but on the whole, she is a bit of a crabby patty. We all say that we would be too if we had her life!! So we make sure to enjoy the good times and the bad times with her and to try and just be grateful that we are all home as a family together.

Since my last post we have discovered a few new things that Gracie likes. When she is fussy, I can just dance around with her to ABBA's greatest hits--yep, that's right, ABBA (I love them and I loved the movie Mama Mia!!) and she quiets right down and sometimes falls asleep.....pretty funny!! When you give her her lip gloss she absolutely goes crazy like she is a drug addict trying to eat it. So my friend had the idea to twist it all the way down and let her just put it in her mouth and lick it.....another one of her favorite past times. Also lately, she has acted like she is thirsty so we give her water through a syringe and she drinks it.....it is pretty cute. However, if you try to put some formula or PediaSure in there, she does not like it, so I am trying to think of what I can do to get something with calories in there that she likes.

I will post some Halloween pictures of her soon!! (Gracie's FIRST Halloween!!)

Happy Halloween everybody!!