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Jan. 18th, 2008 08:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lls_mutantWell, I survived my parents' visit. Actually, I'm very grateful they came, because we're having some trouble getting Trevor to sleep during the night, and my mom helped me a LOT and let me get some sleep. Once Trevor starts sleeping through the night I'll be fine with hubby traveling, but until then it's something to dread.
We had Trevor's 1 month well-check this week. Everything's fine- he's gaining weight well and everything looks healthy. Actually, I ended up spending more of the appointment talking about Toby. The doctor asked how Toby is adjusting, and I said he's doing okay except he's regressing in his eating. This is alarming because there was no room to regress. We had a very long talk about his eating, where I think I finally got the doctor to understand exactly what's going on. He called the Children's Hospital for us, and apparently there is a feeding team there that he can refer us to. I'm calling them today to set up an appointment. I think they also want to do bloodwork for allergies. Both the doctor and I (and hubby) think that there are no food allergies (we've never seen any sort of reaction), but hey- I'm willing to have the work done to discount it.
I called my mom and told her, because after the rants about the Evil Family Practitioner and the struggles last month, I thought they'd want to know. It was frustrating, in a way. Talking about Toby's eating can be so hard, because I feel like a failure as a parent because I can't get my kid to eat. I can get him to sleep, to behave, to come when he's called, to help around the house, to behave in public... but one area and it just completely makes me question my abilities. Food and feeding have GOT to be the most stressful subjects in raising a child who doesn't have other health issues. The world just seems so judgmental if you can't get your kid to eat, and you worry so much about it.
Well, we'll see what this feeding team has to say!
We had Trevor's 1 month well-check this week. Everything's fine- he's gaining weight well and everything looks healthy. Actually, I ended up spending more of the appointment talking about Toby. The doctor asked how Toby is adjusting, and I said he's doing okay except he's regressing in his eating. This is alarming because there was no room to regress. We had a very long talk about his eating, where I think I finally got the doctor to understand exactly what's going on. He called the Children's Hospital for us, and apparently there is a feeding team there that he can refer us to. I'm calling them today to set up an appointment. I think they also want to do bloodwork for allergies. Both the doctor and I (and hubby) think that there are no food allergies (we've never seen any sort of reaction), but hey- I'm willing to have the work done to discount it.
I called my mom and told her, because after the rants about the Evil Family Practitioner and the struggles last month, I thought they'd want to know. It was frustrating, in a way. Talking about Toby's eating can be so hard, because I feel like a failure as a parent because I can't get my kid to eat. I can get him to sleep, to behave, to come when he's called, to help around the house, to behave in public... but one area and it just completely makes me question my abilities. Food and feeding have GOT to be the most stressful subjects in raising a child who doesn't have other health issues. The world just seems so judgmental if you can't get your kid to eat, and you worry so much about it.
Well, we'll see what this feeding team has to say!
