World's Fastest Update

I want to prove to myself that it's ok to update the blog when I have, literally, 3 minutes.

And, of course, I promised my mom I'd let the grandparents know Sam's latest stats.

We had a weight check with the doc yesterday.  Sam has gained a whopping 2 oz since the 4th of July, but has grown 1/2 inch. 

30.5 in

20 lb 1 oz

We now are moving back to a diet that's focused on a highly concentrated formula with feeding more as occupational therapy to try to get her weight up.  This should make her happy, because she really hates to eat. 

Next Tuesday, she gets another barium swallow test to see if everything is developing properly in terms of how she takes in foods, because we've been having a LOT of drama around feeding time.  I really think the issues are behavioral, but Dr. Purcell thinks its important to be sure, because hydrocephalus kids have tone problems (as we know) which can even impact their digestion.

In other news, we had 5 therapy sessions in 6 days over the last week and I finally put my foot down and said "no more".  Sam and I were both stressed out about it.  So I'm re-working our go-forward schedule for a while to be a little less intense.  We weren't even able to practice what one person said before we met with the next.

We'll keep you posted on various progress.  Neurology tomorrow...

Drat, that took 7 minutes, and no pictures...  Need to keep working on this.