Visit with nutritionist

Today we had Ellen, Arianna’s nutritionist, come out to the house to do the monthly check in. I wasn’t to happy to hear that Arianna had absolutely no growth this month. Her weight is still 17 pounds, length 72 ½ cm, and head 44 ¼ cm. Ellen strongly believes if it wasn’t for her getting sick she would of gained some weight. The month before she had a 7 oz weight gain and the month before that was a 12 oz gain. It’s a little disappointing but I’m glad she didn’t lose any weight. We will continue to keep at it and hope next month is a big gain. Arianna is doing fairly well with her feedings but definitely not enough to put much weight on her. She has really been into drinking yogurt smoothies, which is good cause I pack on a lot of calories with the milk and duocal. Ellen felt it was time to switch her over to whole milk. We are to add 8 oz of milk and 1 ½ scoops formula to boost the calories, and then I can give her 4 ozs at a time. Since she has been on a 27 calorie formula if we just switched her to whole milk alone she would lose 33 calories per 4 ounce bottle. With her no gain this month we definitely don’t want to skimp out on the calories.

Then I got a call from the GI clinic and they had to cancel her appointment we had scheduled for this week. The next available was for Feb. 28th. I was a little blown away that I had scheduled this appointment a month in advance and now they are rescheduling us for the end of February. But I guess this is a good thing since Arianna didn’t gain any weight. The GI doctor would not be too happy and I’m sure the feeding tube talk would come up again. This gives us some time to work more with Arianna and see how the transition to whole milk goes. So far it’s been good today with just a runny diaper. (Eeeww, I know, sorry!) Hopefully that works itself out.

Still no word from the neurologist. It’s almost like trying to get ahold of the President. I just have a few questions and it would be nice to get some answers. Maybe I’ll try calling again tomorrow.

Well I hear my baby girl crying so better run….