I have to confess that I'm feeling a bit sorry for myself this morning. At the beginning of last week, things were really looking up. Morgen was eating and sleeping better. I made some plans to see friends from school, to go out for dinner to remember my friend Amanda (it would have been her thirty-second birthday on Saturday), and to take Morgen out to see her adopted Aunt Nicole for a nice brunch with some new friends. And then, Morgen, Gavin and I picked up some sort of little cold virus complete with the highest fever she's had to this point. A doctor confirmed our suspicions that the soy formula we've been giving her to help her gain weight may be making her eczema worse. I cancelled my plans, and Morgen has since been eating and sleeping really poorly. If she were a very fat happy little girl, I wouldn't be so worried about it - but she's a slightly skinny girl on doctor's orders to bulk up as much as possible, so I'm a bit concerned. As this photo shows, she is unhappily smearing most of what we offer her on her face. We're trying to find this cute instead of troubling.
I know that parenthood will often require us to change plans, and Morgen is probably fine - just transitioning into the next phase of eating by protesting the night weaning and her stuffy nose so that she gets more mommy during the daytime. I'm doing my best not to lose that sense of forward momentum that had me smiling at the beginning of this week. But I'm not entirely succeeding.
3 comments:
I'm sorry, I should be concerned with you, but that photo is absolutely fabulous!
It will be okay..Emmett went through phases of eating and not eating....he is 4 and still does not eat all the time...Don't stress...the one thing I have learned is that the more stress you show the more the kid gets stressed...Stay cool..it will work itself out. Is there a reason for the soy? They do make a formula with extra stuff to help gain weight..It will be okay...she looks healthy and not too small. Just Hang In!!
Nat
::hugs::
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