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October 2013 Moms
PharmDMom
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PIP- DS's new look post-hospital stay
PharmDMom
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So I haven't been contributing much the past few months and this is why...
After 3 months of battling severe reflux, we ended up at our children's hospital last week. DS had been gradually eating less and less, refusing bottles, and finally stopped eating enough to sustain himself, despite my around the clock efforts to get him to eat. I literally was calling off work to stay home to try to feed him because he wouldn't eat for anyone but me. We were admitted, he got IV fluids, then had an NG tube placed. They have run all kinds of tests and can't find anything else wrong besides reflux. There have been cases of babies developing major feeding aversions from reflux alone, so he isn't alone.
We are working with a pediatric feeding psychologist and our GI team to continue to get him eating more from bottles. We offer bottles first then whatever he doesn't take goes in the NG tube. After a week of hell on earth, he is finally doing better! We are hoping he can get the tube out in a few months.
Of course the story is much longer but that's the shortest version I could come up with. I'm guessing I still won't be bumping too much while we are trying to get him better but I've been here since my BFP so I'm not leaving!
Thanks for reading. And here's the pic of my sweet boy rocking his tube.
Eta something I forgot
After 3 months of battling severe reflux, we ended up at our children's hospital last week. DS had been gradually eating less and less, refusing bottles, and finally stopped eating enough to sustain himself, despite my around the clock efforts to get him to eat. I literally was calling off work to stay home to try to feed him because he wouldn't eat for anyone but me. We were admitted, he got IV fluids, then had an NG tube placed. They have run all kinds of tests and can't find anything else wrong besides reflux. There have been cases of babies developing major feeding aversions from reflux alone, so he isn't alone.
We are working with a pediatric feeding psychologist and our GI team to continue to get him eating more from bottles. We offer bottles first then whatever he doesn't take goes in the NG tube. After a week of hell on earth, he is finally doing better! We are hoping he can get the tube out in a few months.
Of course the story is much longer but that's the shortest version I could come up with. I'm guessing I still won't be bumping too much while we are trying to get him better but I've been here since my BFP so I'm not leaving!
Thanks for reading. And here's the pic of my sweet boy rocking his tube.
Eta something I forgot
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Re: PIP- DS's new look post-hospital stay
He had a lot of vomiting overnight when he first got the tube (he gets a slow drip of formula via pump overnight) so sleeping is really hard... I'm wide awake right now (2am). Boo. Every time I hear a sound I run to him hoping he's not throwing up! He hasn't had any of those episodes in several days though so I need to chill. But you know how a mommy's brain works... maybe my bump time will be MOTN until I can stop worrying so much! haha
Eleanor 9.30.13
DX: Unexplained Infertility
IUI #1: Clomid 50mg + Ovidrel + IUI: 11/3/12 - BFN
IUI #2: Clomid 50mg + Ovidrel + IUI: 12/5/12 - BFN
IUI #3: Clomid 100mg (CD 3-7) + 75 iu Bravelle (CD 9 & 11) + Ovidrel (CD 13) + IUI: 1/10/13 - BFP! EDD 10/3/13
**P/SAIF welcome!**