Bottomless Pit

Lately, Ryan's become a bottomless pit for food. He's eating us out of house and home, adding tasty treats like baby "puffs," Cheerios and small chunks of fruit to his steady diet of baby food. That's the good news. The bad news is that he's still not drinking anything. It's been nearly 4 weeks since Ryan had a full day's worth (or even a full serving, for that matter) of milk. He's not dehydrated -- apparently he gets enough liquids (from his purees and the formula that I mix in with his food a few times a day) to keep his body running like normal.

We've been to the pediatrician, the GI and over the past week, an occupational therapist/feeding specialist. No one's been able to crack the code on our stubborn kid just yet, but I'm holding on to a shred of hope that someone's got to have a solution for us.

So for now, we continue to do some therapy at home as recommended by our OT, we go visit the OT a few times a week, and we offer liquids at every meal (we sit down to eat 5x a day, nowadays). Ryan occasionally takes a few sips, but more often than not, he just pushes the cup away. Please keep us in your prayers and hopefully we'll have a miracle sooner rather than later. Below are a few new pics of some food firsts from the last week. Enjoy!

Ryan enjoying his first cookie (a Gerber biter biscuit):


Ryan eating a frozen GoGurt (blueberry blast, yum):

Ah, and yes - that is still a clogged tear duct in Ryan's right eye (if you can see it in this shot). We also visited a pediatric opthamologist recently, and need to schedule an outpatient procedure to surgically open the tear duct as well. Who knows, with all these doctor/therapist visits, maybe Ryan will grow up wanting to be a doctor. (We can hope that something positive can come out of all of this, right?) :)