Jac is doing a better job of eating! Yesterday his Occupational Therapist was here (we have switched back to in-home therapy services through Imagine) and he had a good time eating. He has been enjoying eating Medium Hot Japanese curry! Hard to believe but true.
He ate quite a bit of curry off of a piece of celery. The celery was suggested by his OT as a way to help move his gag reflex back. We think that the reason he has so much trouble eating foods is that he has a very strong gag reflex which is quite forward on his tongue. This means that when he gets some food on his tongue and he is not sure what to do with it or how to move it around or swallow it he sometimes gags on it and then throws up.
After he finished with the curry he had some tapioca which he also enjoyed. I am happy to see him be able to eat the tapioca as it has the little bits of rice in it that he has to navigate.
He has gotten very good at eating the Gerber Graduate Crunchers and Stars and we give him those every time he sits down.
I have contacted the GoodLife clinic at Children's Hospital in Denver. I am trying to see if I can find an MD to help us figure out how to get Jac to start gaining weight. His weight has stalled for the last 3 months right around 12 pounds. The good news is he has not lost weight with all of his extra activity but he really needs to gain weight.
When we go out to Kangaroo Kingdom it really strikes me how small he is and next to Nic I realize that Jac should be so much bigger. I, of course, know all of this intellectually but it hits me emotionally more and more frequently the more active Jac gets and the more he interacts with other kids.
We haven't been to Kangaroo Kingdom since I came home from the hospital and I miss going and I am sure Jac does also. He has had a cold though, and that in addition to Nic means we haven't been. I am hoping that Jac is going to make it to KK this Saturday.
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