Feeding Update II

Adeline has made huge strides in the feeding department. Now that daddy is home for a few consecutive days and Adeline is feeling better, we have hit two out of three meals with the feeding protocol. Surprisingly, she is very accepting for the most part. She hasn't had a naptime bottle in almost a week and has done a pretty good job of supplementing her calories. By good job I mean at least half. Here is how this every evolving process works for the moment. . .

Adeline has a bottle when she wakes up and sits out of breakfast. There is a strong "skipping breakfast" gene running through this family anyway.

For lunch, she is up to a quarter of a PB&J or 12-16 centimeter cube bites. There is certainly work involved with the lunch time feeding as she isn't starving and is used to having yogurt and puffs. She tolerates the PB&J but there needs to be a lot of play with the cars or peek-a-boo in between bites. Realistically, this will be dropped when daddy leaves because lunch time is a crazy - walk in the door from preschool and two kids are wanting food etc. - time. Hopefully, in the next few days, Adeline will be willing to self feed some of her sandwich. Finally, when the girls go down for naps, I hold Adeline up for a few minutes and get 4 oz. of whole milk yogurt in her (140 very quality calories).

Dinner has gone exceptionally well the last few nights. I made a roast with baby carrots and garlic mashed potatoes. All of my family, except Lila, love the potatoes. Even Adeline will take decent sized bites and sign for more over and over again. The best part is they are made with heavy cream that has simmered with smashed garlic cloves. Yummy and super high in calories. In addition to the potatoes, every one except daddy devour the baby carrots. It is the only thing Lila Grace will eat from this dinner. Adeline has taken almost two whole baby carrots each night without too much encouragement. I still haven't pushed the roast on her. Tonight she ate a half cup of applesauce too which is something she was refusing a week ago (120 calories). Not bad for a dinner.

We follow all this up with nighttime bottle.

I am trying not to get my hopes up because things are running smoothly due to two parents in the house. When everything falls on me (cooking, feeding, cleaning up afterward etc.) meal times get a bit hairy. Regardless of how quickly we progress from this day forward, we are miles ahead of where we started. Let's just hope this isn't the preemie pattern or two steps forward, one step back.