His eating is not getting any better!

Sharon

I don´t have any advice either — it seems tougher everyday, right? I really know it will get better, i just do not know when or how you will get there. We are struggling too… seems like all the non-eaters are having a specially hard time right now… hopefully it will pass soon.

Sending all my love

Sharon, there was just a post a few days on feeding therapy. A few of us are seeing occupational therapist and speech pathalogist. I didn’t know that they start seeing babies in the hospital. A mom just posted yesturday with some great games they are teaching her toddler at therapy class, she is starting to get some results too.

My daughter is 7 months old and the therapist is trying to develop certain muscles and work on motor skills needed for swallowing and chewing that some babies just don’t develop… especially if they are refluxers. It’s more common than you think.

Start calling around and see what’s available in your area. Worth a try….I hope things get easier for you both soon!

Oh.. think his meds are at the right dose for his age and weight? 15 mgs of prevacid seems low, my 7 month old is on 30 mgs. split 3 x a day.

Sharon, I’m sorry you are going through this too. Alexis is very stubborn and it sounds like Brian is the same way. She does what she wants when she wants to. We still have eatting issues but they are much better than they use to be, just continue doing what you are doing. Alexis still hates feeding time, but now she does pick out snacks and feeds herself (such as an animal cracker, or a few cheerios it is not much but it is a start). She just never seems to be hungry and it seems like Brian is the same way. When we started her on the appetite stimulant around 20 months old she does much better, we only give it to her every other week but currently holding off on it due to her surgery. Alexis was on puree food for a long time as well she slowly transition to table food but very slowly, I started with buying the gerber graduate meals in the microwave containers and would use the food chopper to make the pieces really small so there was at least some texture and fed that to her. It got her use to the texture once she was able to tolerate that I started to decrease the amount I would mash up. She finally switched to table food but she still doesn’t like to chew and chipmunks her food or she would chew it completely and not swallow. A small meal takes at least 1 to 1 1/2 hours it is quite frustrating and some of the meals end up with lots of crying and screaming. Right now, is a whole new issue due to the surgery, we’ll see how she eats after she completely heals, keeping my fingers crossed!

My son did not start #3 gerber foods until 13 or 14 months old (and he was always over the 100% in weight). It was an out-of-the-blue scenario. All of the sudden one day, he gobbled it up – after months of refusing. I think they know when their stomachs are ready to handle it – digestion is hard work!

However, my neice hardly ever ate anything other than milk (she did not have reflux) and she’s a little string bean. Some kids just aren’t big eaters I guess.

Sharon,

So sorry to hear that things are still so horrible with eating. I just thought I would ask and throw this out there…have you looked into allergies and other food problems that might be causing him pain when he eats? Just curious. After 17 mos of basically not sleeping, I tried to remove wheat and gluten from our diets nad this seemed to help Lucas’ sleep more than anything else we’ve tried. Not that it’s all better or anything, but improved. It just made me realize that I never went with that angle beyond teh MSPI stuff. Just thought I would ask. How much does he weigh? Lucas has been on a very high dose of zegerid for quite a while. I think he’s been on 40mg a day since he was about 18 or 20 lbs. I know Brian might not be that heavy yet, but upping the ppi can really help. Also, would trying a different ppi be an option for you? We’ve had such great luck with zegerid and it can be given whenever, not the rigid rules for before and after eating like other ppis. Hang in there!!!

many moms have found that you can’t take the zantac/pepcid out of hte mix and have the baby still feel okay even though the docs push for that….I would do whatever you can to get him to feel better. I know Lucas was on a much higher dose than Brian at that age and weight…I would really investigate why he can’t be on 30mg of prevacid, or switching to a high dose of zegerid….Good luck!