I know its only been a few days since I last talked about Rowans eating situation, but I know at least some of you follow our family pretty closely, and if I’m fired up about something, sometimes you guys are too. So here’s the latest on Ro.
I could not be happier with the way Rowan’s medication is improving just his general quality of life, it seems. At our worst, he was up every two-ish hours every night, not napping in the day, always unsettled, and of course, HATED drinking his milk. Since he’s been on his medication (basically just the liquid form of a generic Zantac) SO many things have changed!!! He’s up twice in the night still, but that is a large step up from where we were, so I’m certainly not complaining! He naps so much better in the day, too, which I didn’t necessarily expect to come from this. Two nice long naps for sure, sometimes three shorties, depending on the day. He likes rolling around on the floor considerably more than he did literally just last week, when he was only happy in the jumper, in a standing position. Best of all, when he is good and hungry, he cries for his bottle. And better than best of all, he takes it!
The one struggle that remains is that he still really isn’t a fan of taking a bottle. He doesn’t get half as upset, because it doesn’t hurt him anymore. (Disclaimer: This is obviously just as far as we can tell. We don’t know anything for sure!) But I think its sort of built into him that he hates drinking his bottle because he always has. So he’s pretty unimpressed every time we set him up for a feeding, unless he’s reeeaaally wanting it badly, but once we get him latched onto the bottle, he’s good to go. He’s adapting well to his new bottles, I’d say. Its taking a little while, but he’s catching on.
All things considered, we’re hopeful! We thought we’d need quite a bit more outside help, and we were fine with asking for it! But he’s really doing an amazing job of working his stuff out on his own 🙂 He’s eating more in the day, and we’re learning more about his preferences. We don’t have to be afraid of him having opinions now, because we know he’s not in pain or discomfort anymore. At least we sure hope he’s not.
So thats the skinny on Rowan. Thanks, everyone, for being so patient with the blog switching over and having some glitches. I think things like some people seeing pictures sideways and different borders and such will just work itself out over time, as its totally out of my control what your browsers see. Hopefully everyone will be seeing the same thing soon 🙂 Thanks again, guys!