ANGRY or HAPPY??

I understand your mixed feelings. Everytime I take Myles to the doctor in some way I hope they find something to explain his dislike for the bottle, but at the same time don’t want them to find anything because I don’t want anything to be wrong with my little boy.

My little guy is getting enought Pravacid, too and doesn’t seem to be in pain, but he’s drinking less and less from his bottle and I have to spoon feed him. I really don’t know why, but I’ve suspected for a long time that they’re may be some ENT thing going on with him. I wonder if I should take him to an ENT like you did with Christian. So far none of the doctors I’ve taken him to have any explanation and they are satisfied with his growth, so they are not concerned. But they don’t have to feed him. Not fun!

I’m glad you finally found out what may be causing some of Christian’s problem. Is there something they can do? Will he have the adnoids removed? What about the fluid, what can they do about that?

I hope the ENT will be able to help Christian.

I agree Laura – I too would be both angry and happy. Nobody wants to
hear that something is wrong with their baby but like you said, maybe
they can now treat this issue and get him eating!

BTW – why is 3 the magic age?

Karaen

My understanding of the three is something similar to Laura’s… there are a couple of things:

– most feeding programs, the intensive ones, actually i think require a baby to be about 18months developmentally (ie to understand a system of reward). By the way, Laura, i hear there are long waiting periods at these places, so maybe try to get into a program? I just know from the other board about waiting lists! Then you can cancel hopefully! 🙂 I think that will be our plan anyway.

– it can take a few months to get the behavior changed and then usually they will leave the button in for another few months (if not a year) in which months the baby does not need it but goes through illnesses etc and eats through them

– by age 3 or 4 there is peer pressure from other babies etc and they eat and so your child may eat as well and imitate etc

Who knows if all this is true. All i know is Matthew is 9months old and i know we have at least another year, judging by the way he eats now. (we still pray for miracles though).

That sounds like a good plan…the nose drops and steroids first to see if the swelling goes down. I hope it works and he won’t need surgery. As for the tubes, every one I know who’s had it done said it helped their children, and that the surgery wasn’t bad.

Good luck at the GI on Monday.

Laura,

Glad to heat that the ENT is so great! How did they find out that he was tongue tied? Also how do they check out the adenoids and ears? Sorry if this sounds stupid. I’ve often wondered about hailey’s ears, but they have such a hard time testing her for anything unless she’s sedated because she freaks out so intensely that they can’t look at anything properly or hear (if they have to listen). Just wondering if this is something that they’d be able to figure out pretty quickly if they looked at it.

It was SUPER fast, literally half a second (but he was MUCH younger than yours, don’t know if they would do it in office like with Aidan) The dr just came in with some surgical siccors (I think that’s what they were) and opened his mouth and snip, clipped it, he cried for maybe half a second, and it did bleed a bit in the office and a small amount at home, but the mouth heals itself faster than anywhere on the body so literally by the time we got home, the bleeding (what little of it there was) had stopped. His was very very severe, as in he could not lift his tounge up at all, and you could see it forking at the tip as he tried to lift it (which is why I caught it so soon), The dr actually said her first daughter was born tounge tied and she had her dr clip the membrane. Suposedly it is suposed to reced in the womb, but sometimes doesn’t, some parents insist on wating til they are one to see if it will recede on it’s own (usually does) but I opted to nip it in the bud early as it can (as you found out) cause speech delay and make it harder for them to take the bottle, eat, etc. My sister just found out her 17 month old is tounge tied and is going to ask the dr to clip it (it’s just a membrane, not much pain with that). I would think that even with an older child the recovery time would be very fast, although like I said it might not be in office, not sure. (funny, now AIdan can twist his tounge-lol I saw it for the first time and was like OMG what is his tounge doing, lol he can twist it almost upside down) But it is a procedure that I would do no matter how old he had been, my older one is in speech in school, and I see how much he hates it!