Day Thirty

Well, I have been in Richmond VA for 30 days. Daniel's progress has been amazing. Just think that 30 days ago he did not eat by spoon properly and was getting about 12 oz per day of solid food and some drink. As of today, he is taking the full spoon and his volume is up to 25.6 for a total today. I think he is doing wonderful based on the fact that he has not eaten all of those 30 days. He started out with a dry spoon and then onto a very tiny infant spoon and top that with the fact that I have not been able to feed him on weekends. This weekend will be my first at feeding him 5 meals per day. I'm going to be interested to see what his volume will be with me feeding him all 5 meals outside of the clinic atmosphere. Keep your fingers crossed for me that the volume doesn't go down. We want it to go up! He had a good day today but got really tired during his last meal and didn't quite take the volume that he usually does. This made us down a little but he rebounded when we came home and his volume went up for the 5th meal so this was good.



Eric is coming to visit this weekend (yea!). He is bringing us additional supplies that we will need. He will be getting here late Friday and will leave around noon on Monday. He's going to come to clinic to see 2 of Daniel's feeds. It will be great for him to see what the therapists do with Daniel. I don't know if I mentioned it before or not, but, we were originally supposed to graduate the program on 04/03. However, since we lost a week due to Daniel's ear infection, they have extended our stay until 04/10. So, we'll have to be in Richmond for an additonal week. I kinda figured this would happen since we missed the time.



Well, I gotta go. Hoping you all are well and I'll update tomorrow.



-Angela-