Our family med doctor does care!

I got a call tonight from our family medicine doctor.  She heard from the scheduling desk that we couldn't get into Pediatric GI until the beginning of the year and wanted to get in contact with me.  She is going to put through an e-consult which I guess is basically an email to one of the pediatric GI docs to see what they think.  She said they could want to see him or they might order tests.  If the tests show anything it might get us in faster.  Woohoo!  Sounds like a step in the right direction.  In the mean time she said to start feeding him more cereal which might help with the reflux and gaining weight.

For the last 5 months we've had the same routine at home.  I measure all the milk he drinks and I have a huge book of all the info.  Now I have to change and add cereal?!  How am I going to keep track of what he is taking?  The NICU turned me into a milk tracking fool!  The fear of not knowing what is going on is going to drive me nuts.  I'm going to have to figure something out.

Another change is happening too.  We just finished our last frozen NICU bottles of milk.  They were so easy to thaw and fortify.  Now we're onto bags.  It's no big deal really but I feel like I don't know what I'm doing!  I wish we didn't have to fortify!  It would make it soooo much easier.  AND I'm terrified that the bags are going to leak!!  All that hard work better be protected in that thin plastic!

Weight check tomorrow...hoping for a gain!