Good news. The GI Clinic went well today. Both boys are doing really good for their height/weight gain. The doctor we met with was really impressed that they've gained and grown as much as they have, especially for being 24 weekers. Jonah is in the 50th percentile and Noah the 25th percentile. It is truly a blessing from above that neither has yet needed a feeding tube and has gained weight appropriately.
We have new goals for feeding. We are still trying textures out. We started today adding Wheat Germ instead of Oatmeal to all the Stage 1/2 foods the boys are eating. We also will be adding one piece of small pasta/veggie, etc. to a spoonful of pureed food and gradually as they tolerate increasing the amount until they can fully tolerate the Stage 3. We determined Jonah is just not yet ready for the sippy cup and may need a few more months over which we can still attempt trying him with one and we will continue with the NUK exercises for both coupled with holding Jonah's chin up after he takes bites of food to help him learn that eating requires closing his mouth and keeping his tongue in (he tongue thrusts a lot) when eating.
It was a long day, but productive.
Poor Noah is having a reaction to the antibiotics he was on last week. He has developed a nasty yeast infection and we started a prescription ointment yesterday afternoon. He had me worried last night because he had a couple of stools with small traces of bloody mucus. I did read this can also happen as a result of yeast infections but there is a lab order now at our pediatrician's office for Noah's poop to be cultured to make sure he hasn't developed any internal infections from the antibiotic cleaning out all bacteria from his GI tract (apparently this can happen, especially with babies). So tomorrow is his poop culture. He started up with a fever of 100.2 tonight. If this continues tomorrow we will take him in. In the past this has happened with teething. We just continue to give him Tyenol, etc. and it passes....but all the symptoms together are a little unnerving. We have been on the phone with his pediatrician all day and the GI Clinic ordered the poop study plus double checked his rash to make sure the ointment we are using will work.
So hopefully tomorrow goes well and Noah's fever subsides.
That is the latest at the Hanna home.
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