Sunday August 20, 2006
My dd isn’t gaining much (13lbs 6oz if I recall correctly) and my Dr. is sort of being a pain about it. She still has some pudge, but I can tell it is sort of melting away and I am a little concerned too, but not totally freaking quite yet.
The main problem is that she seems to have a lot of tongue thrust still. If she were gaining, I wouldn’t care and just hold off on foods for a bit, but I am supposed to bring her in for weigh ins like I did when she was a newborn. Having been on SN boards, I am aware of how serious this could get if she doesn’t eat well.
Tonight, after working with her for quite a while, he grabbed a straw and sucked up some of the baby food into the straw and let it dribble onto her tongue, farther back. She seemed happy and eager to get the food. When that was successful, I went and pulled out the big 1oz syringes from when we had to syringe feed her as an infant and sucked up the rest of the babyfood. She finished an entire jar worth of babyfood for the first time.
Although this seems like a good idea in the sense of being successful at getting food into her for the short term, I wanted to find out if this was going to create bigger problems down the road.
She actually doesn’t seem to have as much of a problem with crackers, but she only has teeth buds (just broke through), so she can’t really chew at all yet.
Is there something that helps with tongue thrust? Any other thoughts? I know we aren’t in serious trouble yet, but I want to run it by the knowledge here because my doctor actually tends to overreact to a lot of things (fresh out of med school) and it can mean a lot of testing that is likely not really warrented.
