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. :)