So we didn't learn much from our appointment with the dietitian & speech pathologist. Pretty much they agreed with the fact that his throat may just be severely irritated from pulling his feeding tube out and us having to put it back in. We did change his eating times though and it seems to have helped a little. We were feeding him 60 mL of formula every 3 hours, 8 times a day. He used to spit up on the last 3 or 4 feedings. Now we are feeding him 70 ML every 3 hours, 7 times a day, but giving him a 6 hour break at night. The reason this seems to be working is because he was tolerating the daytime feedings fine, and just spitting up in the late night or early morning feedings. So now we don't have one of those feedings, and it actually seems ok. Granted we have only tried it one night. But he only spit up twice and a lot less each time. We shall see how it goes. Also we are told that we can start using some breast milk fortified with colostrum on the 21st, so I'm excited for that. Everyone was still just fine with his growth and that is most important. Will try after the 21st to work with the bottle and hopefully get him off the feeding tube. Thank you all for prayers. Will try to post a video or pictures soon.
On another pleasant note, both Ty and I have a cold. We are trying to be extra careful around Christopher, and hoping he won't catch it. Good luck with that! Luv you all.
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