Feeding therapy update

The feeding therapy appointment at Children's went well. We identified a couple of goals before actually eating:
1. Increase rate of g-tube feedings, so we can space them further apart and thereby create appetite. Right now, the feedings are sloooow (because she STILL is gaggy), and she is being fed about 3 hours, 3 times a day. Getting that down to 1 1/2 hours a day will take much prayer.
2. Nix the gagginess & vomiting. People who vomit alot don't want to put food in their mouths. Go figure.
3. Sit her at the table 3x a day. Practical point: ditch the highchair that doesn't fit her and get an appropriate chair that can sit up to the table, but also support her.

If this sounds like deja-vu all over again, we have been working on relearning eating since last summer, in fits and starts, as her medical condition allowed. It is frustrating to begin again, and again, and again. What can I say? Someday we'll be in heaven, and I'll sit beside Annie at the wedding supper of the Lamb. And she won't have a g-tube.

As always--thanks SO much for your prayers. You guys share in her victories.

Jean

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