We've adjusted the lovable Noodles' diet. He's now getting 100% homemade blended food through his G-tube button. We slowly phased out the Elecare formula from his nutritional intake over the course of the last few weeks. He is tolerating it folks and his retching episodes seems to have decreased! His poop is real, human poop and lots of it- especially when we are in a very inconvenient place. Timing is everything!
We've had many consultations with our nurses and nutritionists, and I bought this great "cookbook" called Homemade Blended Formula Handbook. We're armed with a crockpot and this new snazzy, uber-powerful Vita-Mix 5200 (it's a commercial-grade blender) to help our little cutie patootie pack on the weight and get ample protein, vitamins and minerals without being too much of a time suck for the family. His stomach has gone through the "normalizing" period and we seem to be well on the road to a stronger, happier, more talkative kiddo without all that formula sloshing around in his belly aggravating his reflux.
He's been in a great mood. Here he is shooting hoops with Cathy, our OT, earlier this week and mastering the Up and Go gait trainer.
Superstar LJ_Oct 2010 (2 years old) from Jenn S on Vimeo.
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