Tweaks

For the past two days, Gabriel has been really fighting the bottle feeding. It's been very frustrating for all of us. So, today we gave him an "ad-lib" day meaning that we feed him either when he cries or 3 hours pass -- whichever comes first, and he only gets what he takes from the bottle. He gets nothing through the tube. The thought is that if we make him hungry enough, he'll drink from the bottle. Normally, we do get a little bit of a good response to this tactic......but not today. It was going worse than usual. So, we started playing with things. We have three separate bottle options we can use for him, so we tried them all. Then we started playing with milk temperature. The combination of a Dr. Brown's bottle with preemie nipple and warmer than average milk got the best result. Of course, this was also the last thing we tried so it may be that by the end of the day he was hungry enough to put up with us. We don't know. But it's worth trying tomorrow. I'm really hoping Birth to Three gets back to us soon (we're just working our way through the red tape necessary to get him scheduled with a therapist) so we can get some fresh eyes and more experience working on the problem again. When I worked up all the totals, he has been doing worse this whole past week, and we didn't lose ground today, but we didn't gain any either.