So one of our struggles all along has been getting Mia to gain weight and eat food, well, she is now 18 pounds 7 ounces, she's gained 1 1/2 pounds in less than a month, that is phenomenal for our little girl, usually she barely makes 1 pound in a month, so we are so excited about her weight gain. Thank you God!
Mia has also slept through the night 4 times in a row, which is also amazing. And we are ever so grateful for that. We know it is beneficial to her and to us also. By the way, we haven't had to cry it out yet...still an option if there are nights of sleeplessness, but we are grateful she's doing it on her own.
Her head is growing slowly, another praise! And we continue to pray that the helmet will fix the step down in front and reshape her head properly. Thank you for continuing to pray for her, God is so good!
Please also pray for crawling and walking, we know it is possible, we just don't know when. Help us to be patient as we wait on God's timing for this!
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
Yesterday we went to feeding therapy and got some good advice about getting Mia to eat chunkier solids. The feeding therapist said that a "guru" in feeding therapy hates stage 3 baby food with chunks because children get confused and don't know if it is a solid or a purée. (Stage 3 is pureed solids with chunks.). He recommends going straight to feeding tiny pieces of food to your child, and I think that is true for Mia, so we will be working on that with her.
Two nights ago (the first day I tried one less bottle and more solids instead) Mia slept through the night! We were so excited, and we knew it was possible. Thank you God! Last night she made it until 4:20 and we weren't ready to cry it out, so she got a pacifier to help her back to sleep, but no bottle. So I think we've agreed she doesn't need a bottle and now we will have to decide when we are ready for her to cry it out...maybe tonight??? We will see.
She is also doing real well gaining weight, she is now 18 pounds 4 ounces.
Two nights ago (the first day I tried one less bottle and more solids instead) Mia slept through the night! We were so excited, and we knew it was possible. Thank you God! Last night she made it until 4:20 and we weren't ready to cry it out, so she got a pacifier to help her back to sleep, but no bottle. So I think we've agreed she doesn't need a bottle and now we will have to decide when we are ready for her to cry it out...maybe tonight??? We will see.
She is also doing real well gaining weight, she is now 18 pounds 4 ounces.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Mia is doing well from her shots so far, which we are very grateful. We know her immunizations are important, but we don't want her to have anymore seizures either. Mia weighed in at 18 pounds 1 ounce this morning, she's getting to be such a big girl!
At the pediatrician's office yesterday, she told us she wants Mia to be getting 3 meals a day and no more bottles after 18 months...that's seems a bit daunting to us, but we're going to do our best to get there. Pray for wisdom on transitioning to more solids and chunkier solids. Mia tends to make herself gag with chunkier things, so pray that she'd figure out how to eat those things...we will be seeing her feeding therapist tomorrow and she should be able to give us more advice on this also.
Pray also that Mia would learn to feed herself. She will pick up food, but never put it in her mouth...she'll put toys in her mouth, but not food, so pray that she'd make progress in that area.
We are considering letting Mia cry it out at night also, instead of giving her a bottle, so pray for wisdom there also. We want to do what's best for her and getting her to learn how to sleep through the night is really important, so pray for us in that area too.
We are leaning towards not doing surgery on her skull, pray that if God wants us to do that, He would change our hearts. We aren't for certain, but that is kind of where we are at right now...we are definitely not rushing into another skull surgery.
At the pediatrician's office yesterday, she told us she wants Mia to be getting 3 meals a day and no more bottles after 18 months...that's seems a bit daunting to us, but we're going to do our best to get there. Pray for wisdom on transitioning to more solids and chunkier solids. Mia tends to make herself gag with chunkier things, so pray that she'd figure out how to eat those things...we will be seeing her feeding therapist tomorrow and she should be able to give us more advice on this also.
Pray also that Mia would learn to feed herself. She will pick up food, but never put it in her mouth...she'll put toys in her mouth, but not food, so pray that she'd make progress in that area.
We are considering letting Mia cry it out at night also, instead of giving her a bottle, so pray for wisdom there also. We want to do what's best for her and getting her to learn how to sleep through the night is really important, so pray for us in that area too.
We are leaning towards not doing surgery on her skull, pray that if God wants us to do that, He would change our hearts. We aren't for certain, but that is kind of where we are at right now...we are definitely not rushing into another skull surgery.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Mia weighed in today at 17 pounds 15 ounces! We are so close to 18 pounds, I can feel it. :) She continues to eat well and we've only been getting up once in the night, which has been alot better, we'll pray that she'll get the sleeping through the night eventually.
Tomorrow Mia gets some immunizations, so please pray that she doesn't have any adverse reactions to them.
She's doing really well otherwise, we can't wait to see her crawl one of these days. The occupational therapist listed a few things to work on with Mia last Thursday, one of which was taking her socks off, she can do that no problem, we just hadn't worked on it, so we are pleased with the progress she is making. And she's picking up language really quickly, or at least that what it seems to me, she's able to pick out who her Nana and Grandpa and Grandma Cheri are, she even knows who Uncle Paul is, it's really neat to see her respond when you talk to her! God has been so great to her, we continue to be very thankful of His graciousness!
Tomorrow Mia gets some immunizations, so please pray that she doesn't have any adverse reactions to them.
She's doing really well otherwise, we can't wait to see her crawl one of these days. The occupational therapist listed a few things to work on with Mia last Thursday, one of which was taking her socks off, she can do that no problem, we just hadn't worked on it, so we are pleased with the progress she is making. And she's picking up language really quickly, or at least that what it seems to me, she's able to pick out who her Nana and Grandpa and Grandma Cheri are, she even knows who Uncle Paul is, it's really neat to see her respond when you talk to her! God has been so great to her, we continue to be very thankful of His graciousness!
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Bath Time!
We don't normally stick Mia in the bathtub, we usually just give her a sponge bath, it tends to be easier with her bag, but we decided to let her play in the water today...she's got to get used to it sometime...so I was in the process of changing her colostomy bag and decided it would be a good time to get a bath. She loved it. She had a lot of fun playing in the water, we'll have to make it a regular routine when I change her bag now. :)
I also got this nice picture of CindyCat the other day, she's such a good kitty and does so well with Mia. Sometimes we think about finding a new home for her because of my allergies...we'd want her to go to a really good home though. Does anyone want a really nice kitty?? We would definitely need visiting privileges...
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