Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Happy Spitter!


Today's GI appointment went great! Diagnosis: Happy Spitter. How cute is that?!?! In a nutshell, Mercedes is fine. Yay! :)


Because she is gaining weight, the dr. said she is definitely taking in more formula than she is spitting out. So that's wonderful news. She doesn't cry & scream when she spits up, so that's wonderful too. He is not concerned about esophagus damage & she doesn't need another upper GI (whew!). So for now he has changed her medication (one of them...ditching the Zantac & replacing with Prevacid) & she will remain on the Reglan. If she improves with the Prevacid, I am to wean her from the Reglan. If there is no improvement, then the last alternative (at this point) is to change her formula, as she could be allergic. I hope it doesn't come to this because she must be on this particular formula due to her thyroid medication. So, we may have to get together w/ her Endocrin dr. Hopefully not. For now we wait & see. He did say that she will probably have this reflux until she is one. I figured it would last longer than Audi's since hers is more severe. Audi stopped spitting up completely at 6 months. But hey, as long as Mercedes is ok, we'll take a year! :)


She's looking at Audi in the above photo. She loves him & out of the three children he pays her the most attention. Talk about a built-in babysitter! He's awesome! Such a shame he's only 4. lol ;)

She is still really horrible when it comes to eating off a spoon. Good Lord. She looks like a pig eating slop. She does better when hubby feeds her. When I feed her she thinks it's playtime & starts blowing her cereal all over me (& typically I wear my glasses...cereal covered glasses), laughing & flopping her arms around like fish out of water. So for now daddy gets to feed the cereal. :)

7 comments:

Sean and Lisa said...

So glad you got good news today! She looks so happy and healthy.

Anonymous said...

Glad all is well with Caibry!
Aunt Christa

Anonymous said...

Glad the news was good! I prayed it would be!
The pictures of her are so cute....

How much does she weigh now? She looks big!!!!

Katie

threadbiz01 said...

So glad you got good news!! Praise the Lord:)
Caibry is a chunk...just so cute and squeezable~

Deanna said...

How cute is she :)
y 4yr old is sometimes a happy spitter... me mom not so happy :(
Samuel had his small surgery on Tuesday although with his level of pain he would say not so small *laughs*

Mommy Brain said...

She's turning into a chub! I don't know if you see it...but it's obvious to me that she is thriving because the pictures of her are amazing...and she is growing so much! I'm so glad going to the doctor gave you some peace...whew! She's gorgeous...but I miss seeing the other babes...take some more pics of them please!

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