15 Month High Rish Appointment (Failure to Thrive)

So the twins had their 15 month High Risk appointment today. It went just how I thought it would. They are switching them from Neosure 28 calorie to Pedisure 30 calorie, and they still want us to use half a scoop of bene-protein in each 8 ounce bottle. The boys are not gaining weight. In fact, Aiden has lost weight. October 14th when we were there last, Nate was 19.09 lbs and he was 27.5 inches long, today he was 19.73 and he was 28 inches long. Aiden in October was 18.03 and he was 26.9 inches long, today he was 18.01 lbs and 27.75 inches. So he actually lost weight (not much, but he still lost some). Within the next 2-4 months if they don't start to gain weight, especially Aiden they plan on treating them as failure to thrive. Kids who fail to thrive don't receive or are unable to take in, retain, or utilize the calories needed to gain weight and grow as expected. Their plan of action is to see how things go within the next few months, if not something major needs to happen. Possible feeding tubes (Lord please don't let it be feeding tubes), intensive speech and occupational therapy to help develop good eating behaviors, we will also might have to see a neurologist or gastroenterologist. Neither of the boys are on the charts right now. Even when you adjust them back to being 12 months, Nathaniel is just barely on the charts being under the 3rd percentile. Aiden is not even on the charts unless you adjust him to being 9 months old. And then when you adjust him back to 9 months he is only at 9th percentile for weight and 4th for height.
So that is where they stand right now. We are praying that the pedisure helps. We are thinking that their is some underlying reason on why they are not retaining the weight. We are just praying.

Our little A-Monster

I had not really been looking forward to Aiden's dentist appt today. His bottom teeth came in normal, pretty pearly white. But his top 4 teeth have came in yellow and now are deteriorating. The pediatrician was pretty confused. It is almost like we have fed him sweets and pop for 40 years and never brushed his teeth. But they came in this way and every time we give him something too hard to eat, another small chip sloughs off of his poor little teeth. I know that his baby teeth are just placeholders, but I don't want him to be "that kid" that gets made fun of because his teeth "look differnt". Well at our visit to Children's Main Campus we found out that our poor little guy will be getting surgery on his teeth in about a year. They will be doing crowns to help with the sensitivity. Until then we are going to baby his teeth. The dentist said stop filtering the water we use for bottles so he can get the fluoride, and he also wrote a script for an extra strength fluoride tooth gel that we need to use on his teeth right before bed. If his sensitivity gets worse, then we can get semi permanent crowns until his teeth grow in a little more, but they don't want to have to put him under more than once. So prayers that we can "baby" his teeth for another year and wait until he is 2 and then we can get this taken care of.