Poor little Kinzie had to go back to the hospital for x-rays of her tummy on Monday. Sunday night I noticed that her tummy looked really distended and hadn't noticed before if that was normal for her so Cale and I started debating whether to take her into the emergency room Sunday night or wait it out. We were fearing a bowel blockage. He and our neighbor gave her a blessing and we finally decided to wait. Our doctor sent us in the next day for an x-ray. It showed a lot of gas blocked by a little more poop as well as streaks in her lungs. So two treatments.
1st since she is back to pooping reguarly and actually pooped and passed a lot of gas while at the doctors office the doc felt that she would fix it herself by pooping and farting more.
2nd we are stopping any attempts to bottle feed and continuing to strictly use only the feeding tube. I had been using only the tube this lst week anyway but when we start bottle feeding no early than one week but maybe longer we will thicken even more to honey consistency just in case the streaks in the lungs are from aspirating.
Yesterday she was throwing up every feeding and two times in between feedings but is yet to throw up today. She still gags and chokes a lot though ad nI fear she is swallowing that down the lungs but the upside is that the coughing and gaggging could just be her trying to clear out her lungs herself. The kicker is that for her once she coughs or gags, whatever is in her tummy is coming up too!
The good news. We finally gained some weight. She nows weighs 10 lb. 10 oz. up from 10 lb. 5 oz. 6 days ago. She is 22 1/4 inches long which puts her in the 16% for weight and 19th % for height.
5 comments:
YAY!! hopeful news!! im happy she gained weight. ill keep prayin. keep truckin along. she will progress. :)
poor tummy :( is aw the pic that you sent mom, im glad she is doing better! she is such a cuty and so strong!
Glad to hear she is gaining weight! Hoping a little rest this week will help.
Glad to hear she is gaining weight! Hopefully a little rest this week will help. Miss spending time with u guys.
Kara, this sounds just like what we went through with Annie! Gagging, vomiting, aspirating, constipation... It took us a long time to figure it out, but we eventually learned that her stomach wasn't emptying properly--contributing to constipation, causing worse reflux and thus more aspiration. Has Kinzie had a gastric emptying test done in radiology? I wonder if that might help give you more information about what's going on. Has anyone suggested a fundoplication for her? That would help prevent reflux and help stop the vomiting, although as we learned, you can't just do a fundo without know WHY she's trying to vomit in the first place. For Annie it was because her stomach emptied way too slowly.
I'm so sorry you're having to go through all this. I know how frustrating it is to spend an hour feeding your child, need to be feeding them every 2 hours, and then just have them throw it all up! You must be exhausted, but at least you have the NG to go back to. We'll continue to keep you and Kinzie in our prayers. Feel free to call anytime if you want to talk--we've been down a very similar road!
Love, Jodi
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