We've slowed Lewis' feedings down to an hour again (he was geting 100ml over 1/2 hour, every three hours) and we've got him on a slow continuous feeding overnight. He still gets the dry heaves either late in the one hour feedings or shortly after. He seems to do okay on the continuous feeds. The retching is upsetting to us and looks painful for Lew, but he seems to recover from it very quickly. Jenn got through to the GI doc again today, since the last round of changes didn't help. The Doc decided to put him on Erythromycin. It is usually used as an antibiotic, but apparently also works as a 'motility' agent too. The theory is that his tummy is getting full, since things aren't moving out fast enough. This will either solve the problem, or get things to move through, um...too fast, if you will. If it doesn't solve the problem, we will have to go back to continous feeding for a while and work our way back up. (We'll also may have to do a few extra loads of laundry).
Apparently, most kids in this situation grow out of many of the feeding issues. Only Lewis needs to get enough calories in order to grow, so it is important that we find a solution, shorter term. The GI Doc seems to think this is only a temporary setback, so we're hopeful it will be fixed soon. Lewis got through his 6 pm feeding tonight with no problems, so far so good on the 9. Meantime, he's still getting through his cold, and is too congested to work on eating by mouth at all this week.
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