Another Caidy Update

It has now been 2 weeks today since Caidys' surgery and she is not quite back to normal, but definitely doing better.

We met with a public health nurse yesterday who weighed Caidy and she is down to 15lbs 12 oz, almost a whole pound since her surgery. I knew she hasn't been eating well, but that really put things into perspective. We are going to meet with Linda once a week until Caidy gets gaining again, which once she figures out a bottle and eating more shouldn't take any time at all.

I talked to Linda about Caidy not wanting anything to do with liquids at all. She won't even take them from a syringe anymore, I think it has to be that there were a couple times we fed her without enough Tylenol in her system! I can't think of another reason she is so completely against them, but we did get a new bottle yesterday, it is called a haberman feeder, this is the only way we can get liquids into her. It allows us to squeeze the tit into her mouth without her having to do too much work, used a lot for preemie babies or those having trouble sucking. The health nurse is allowing us to borrow it for a couple weeks and then if this is how she chooses to eat we will have to get ourselves one. I am not sure but it seems our daughter has very high standards for her bottles, never the cheapest one!

I think all in all she is doing ok. She still wants what she likes and refuses to try anything new at this point, but I will stick with it and hopefully not produce too spoiled of a baby once she is all healed! :)

Thanks again for all your prayers and great advice!