Tuesday, February 10, 2009

High Risk vs Feeding Team

Apparently there isn't much vs here. They mostly work together. Today they said that they want to team up with the High Risk clinic to see what High Risk has to say. They want Aiden to be on a higher calorie formula, but they are not sure if his bowels can handle it yet or not. It has been almost a year since his colostomy take down surgery, but his sodium output is still super high. They think Nate is on track right now, but they are going to watch him closely. Nathaniel weighed 20 lbs 2 oz (HE FINALLY BROKE THE 20 LBS MARK!), and Aiden weighed 17 lbs 14 oz. They told me to stop giving them the BeneProtein because it could possibly do more harm than good, especially for their little kidneys, and it can cause undo stress to their bodies. SO she said That I am doing very good as far as giving them an avocado a day, since that has good calories in it. They are going to put them on the special wait list at Mason, so that they get into Speech therapy faster. Which can help with some of the problems that they have been having with tolerating longer stints of time actually eating solid foods.
They had a video swallow study done 2 weeks ago, and it came up normal. The Feeding Team has mentioned that we might need to do further tests on their reflux though.
Both boys got their foot braces 2 weeks ago, but we found out that they both are able to take their heels out of them. So they have been returned, and we are waiting for the new taller braces to arrive.
(I will post pictures as soon as I find my camera)