Going the Distance

Addie's worst feed of the day is the first. She usually eats around 3:30 or 4:30 a.m. and then wakes around 7:30 a.m. Most kids are ravenous after going so many hours with out eating. Not Addie. I think she could probably go another 2 hours before she would get hungry on her own. I give her Prevacid at 7:30 and she eats at 8. She usually fights me quite a bit. She cries, pulls back, kicks, pushes the bottle out with her tongue, shakes her head like she's telling me "NO!" and will often vomit.

Per the speech therapist and GI doc's advice, I try every morning at 8 a.m. to help maintain a schedule (we have no choice with all of the medicine we're giving her, too) and to try and get something down her to start the day and keep her thriving. If we're having a good day, I can get about 2 oz. in her.

This morning she wanted nothing to do with her bottle. After some fighting, she started to eat. But, about an ounce into it, she slowed way, way down and I could tell it was coming. WOOSH! Up came what she had left from her middle of the night feed and the ounce she had just eaten. Just for s & g, I actually measured it

I put the pink ball down mark her "greatest distance". It's like the shot put, but with barf instead of the ball.

Here, I used the bottle because it seemed like the pink ball wasn't showing up too great.

From where we were sitting to the farthest "point of contact" was 4 feet!

That is right. No joke. This happens about 3 or 4 days a week. After each "event" I steam clean the carpet to avoid the awful smell of her partially-digested-but-smells-like-vomit-even-before-you-eat-it formula. I cannot wait until this is done and over with.