Encouragement for Newbies

[Anonymous]

I just wanted to post to give all of you newbies out there some encouragement: I found my son’s daycare provider sheets that I saved from his first week of school (he was almost three months then) and by every feeding they noted something like “FYI, spit up twice during this feeding” and he was only getting four ounces at the time! It made me look back and realize how far we have come and although I didn’t think I would ever forget how bad it was in the beginning, it is getting blurrier and blurrier by the day. We are not completely out of the woods yet with the reflux but it is so much better than it used to be. I am having so much fun with him now! So, hang in there everyone, I promise it will get better!

Mom2Seth2006-3-2 12:51:12

[Anonymous]

Great Topic, Tiffany! I too, remember wanting to jump out the window and end it all! It was so hard, and nobody understood, and Dylan spit up on average 8 to 12 times every time we fed him!

Now, we have such a blast! We had his 3 year old party on saturday and we had a clown. She was singing BINGO and Dylan was jumping all around her screaming “Be a Kanagroo!!!!”. We have it on video and it is priceless. When he says “I love you, Mommy” I just melt. It was all worth it and it is such a blur now. At least for another month or so….. Then I’ll be back at the Boo Hoo, but for now, this is awesome!

[Anonymous]

i had tears in my eyes when hannah ate frosting recently. i know, we strive for our kids to eat healthily (and trust me, i am as “organically” oriented as they come…but this girl who gagged and threw up on her first birthday cake and fed her second to the dog, oh hell — she gagged and threw up everything sweet or not sweet and then just plain refused it, looked at me and said “ummmmmm, cupcake.”

yes. even when it gets as bad as it can get and then worse, it really does get better.

[Anonymous]

So true.

My recent teary eyed moment was the other day when I gave Hailey her first Flinestone vitamin (the hard kind you have to chew). She chewed it up and asked for more. This is all from the baby who puked the moment a flake touched the back of her tongue. She’s come such a long way…

[Anonymous]

I have to jump in here too. We’ve gone from a boy that would scream at every bottle, where I would cry because he wouldn’t eat, would run the vaccuum cleaner so he would take a bottle (don’t ask) to a boy who, when I ask “Owen, do you want dinner?” will stop whatever he is doing and will speed crawl to the gate to our kitchen to wait until I pick him up and bring him in to the high chair. The minute he sees a bottle (he only gets them before bed and first thing) he will point and whine until we let him have it, and then he’ll end up drinking nearly the whole thing (8 oz). He still has his problems, and still has days where he barely eats a thing, but it is NOTHING like it used to be. Not even a little bit.

[Anonymous]

Ditto to everything above. As we mentally try to prepare for the strong possibility of yet another reflux baby, we’ve been talking about what the first few months were like. It is absolutely amazing how far she has come! Our little baby that couldn’t handle more than 2 oz of formula at a time without spitting it all back up, will now happily drink 8 oz of soy milk at one sitting (when she’s in the mood, of course).

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