I apologize once again for being on the quiet side,….I thought our summer would be full of fun in the sun…instead we were side tracked by Gastroparesis
well I guess the only way to start is from the beginning…
In April Faith got transitioned from infant formula to toddler formula..a more nutritious formula that has higher calories and would benefit Faiths growth
In May she began to gag..we thought it was from a uti (urinary tract infection)
Then she had a cold and another uti at the end of May…we thought the gagging was from this but would improve once she felt better,
….we were wrong…it got worse
By June it was a lot of gagging and then vomiting once a week that increased as the weeks went by,
By July it was daily…daily vomiting
By august it was with every feeding
In the mean time we were trying to figure out what the cause could be, adjusting meds, stopping meds, trying new meds, spacing out her feedings, tried smaller feedings more frequently, changing formulas…we tried and tried
I have not scrubbed my rugs so much in my life.
Our life was literally, feeding, vomiting and cleaning..
Then we hit another road block….she started getting constipated
My little Jenga tower was falling apart 😞
A few weeks ago Faith had a test done called a Gastric Emptying Test
Come to find out Faiths digestive system is sluggish, she has Gastroparesis or..a lazy tummy…her stomach doesn’t empty food as fast as it should so when we were doing the feedings the formula was just piling on top of one another or sitting in her tummy too long to the point her tummy couldn’t hold it and would eject it…rather forcefully I might add, she looked like a busted fire hydrant when the vomiting would occur…
We finally got medicines to help improve her digestion as well as help her constipation, which was also stemming from the Gastroparesis.
So prayers that the medicines help her digest and the vomiting resolves
The medicine for the constipation is already working…very well lol