Micah's happenings...

Micah has taken his first steps! :) Go Micah! He's taken a few more, but he's just not a fan of the ideeym (that's Micah saying hi). idea... that he isn't hanging on to anyone. I think he'll catch on eventually. He's always going, so I think when he realizes he can go faster this way, he'll do it.

We're also starting him on a new diet. A lot of kids who vomit a lot on canned formulas (like pediasure) do better on this, but it took a few weeks to get the okay from the powers that be. So, this is what we mix together. It's a basic recipe, since all the foods are baby foods. Eventually you can switch to regular food with a very expensive blender.
Micah's Blenderized Diet
2.5 oz orange veggie
2.5 oz fruit
2.5 oz baby food meat
1/4 cup baby rice cereal
4 oz whole milk
1 tsp (eventually 1 tbsp) olive oil.

Needless to say it doesn't smell the best (baby beef=major hurling potential). But as you can imagine, the body should be able to digest real food better than pediasure, which uses a LOT of sugar to get the calorie density needed. So, you blend this all together and push it through his feeding tube. We'll do this for his day time feeding (12 oz), but the pediasure at night (15 oz). Let's hope this works out. A LOT of people really believe in this, and find their kids can take more of this at a time than of a commercial formula. As you can tell, he doesn't get a lot during the day. He's up to getting 4 oz of formula every 4 hours. Ridiculous, I know. It's taken probably 2 months to go from 3 .5 oz to 4. I'd like to get my hopes up on this, but I know better. Wish us luck!