One more week until Abbypoluza 2007!!!!

Yahooooo!!!!
Only one more week until "lock down" is over. Finally!
Abby is doing better these days. Thank goodness too because she lost over a pound when she was sick. And when you're only 13 and a half lbs to begin with, there isn't too much to spare. Abby is also doing better with her eating lately. As you know, she only eats half of her food and milk by mouth and the rest of the milk goes through the G Tube. The problem has always been that the rest of the milk would take over an hour to give her through an over sized syringe and plunger. If we pushed it in any faster, she would throw it all up. This past week though, we decided to try the old way again, which we stopped before because the old way made her throw up too. The old way is called 'bolus feeding", which is using a syringe and attaching it to the g tube like normal, but we don't use the plunger along with the syringe. Instead, we just hold the syringe up in the air like a funnel, and pour a little bit of milk in every few minutes and let gravity do the rest. The milk goes in MUCH quicker this way. When we tried this at the beginning months and months ago, that was actually the problem. It went in so quick that she threw up. She just couldn't handle it. But now she can! So feeding her takes about a half an hour or so. Don't ask me why Abby will accept the milk going in her tummy so fast this way, but not if we pushed it through the syringe with a plunger. That's a mystery to me too. Let's just be glad she's actually getting her milk in a normal time phrame. This is important because she finally gets that "I'm full" sensation, which in turn means that she is a lot more hungry when the next time to eat rolls around. We've also noticed that she gets a nice case of "food coma" after she eats and has been taking longer naps more frequently throughout the day. We're very excited about everything and we hope that with this new found hunger she'll be able to take more food on her own and obviously gain weight quicker.
Momma is still doing well with her pregnancy and daddy found himself a jobby job which is GREAT news, especially since one of momma's first places she's taking our little nugget is to the mall. I told her to pretend like she's in a museum... look but don't touch. I think my words fell on deaf ears though.

All in all It's been a good week. Thanks again for checking in!


Look at our little model!



Here's that food coma I was talking about



And here's my latest artsy fartsy one... Not too bad eh?




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