Cristal Wooten

My Artistic Life

Monday, August 06, 2007

She is 1/2 year old (6 months)!! 6 months on July 30

What she can do now:
grabs objects by opening and closing her hands
play with her toys
pet the dogs
turns book pages on command
calls me "ninny"
talks in her baby language
whines when she does not get what she wants
She went to her feed and swallow study. They diagnosed her with oral aversions, and recommend a speech therapist for feeding. We have been working with her at home and doing some exercises and massage with her. This has helped a tiny bit. She has taken a few soft sucks on her bottle! It as been VERY difficult to get a therapist :(

Last week we had a few scares. We think she had an allergic reaction to her new medicine (zantac). Her body temperature dropped to 97.3 she was ice cold and sweating a lot. Her heart rate and breathing also dropped. Just as we were going to take her into the ER (at 2:30 am), everything returned to normal? They switched that medicine to Axid (so far so good). We also had to rush her back to her doctors at Phoenix Children's Hospital to get checked out. She is getting food into her lungs again, and they had to turn her oxygen up again (.2 liters per minute), so she will not be getting off this month. It will take at least 2 more months if all goes well.

Overall, she is doing good. She had those few set backs, but overall she is on a upward trend to getting better.