Solids and other updates

Quinn has been doing fairly well with solids. She likes yams, squash, and apples the best. We just introduced pears, and she loved them. She thinks sweet potatoes (yams are orange, sweet potatoes are white) and avocados are ok. She does not like carrots. She is eating every three hours right now, so she takes less volume, and hopefully spits up less. The good news is that the new eating plan is helping with the spitting, but it makes getting to her solids difficult, and sometimes impossible. That is too bad, because she likes her solids! However, between taking a bottle/getting the rest in her tube, naps, visitors, play time, etc, sometimes solids just don't fit into the agenda.

These photos are a couple of weeks old, but I just got them off Dalan's phone, and I think she looks so cute sitting in her high chair, like a big girl....


Quinn's bottle feeding is still going poorly. She has good and bad days. She has been congested (Maybe a cold, but I think it is because she has been on room air during the day, and oxygen during the night, and the switching back and forth is drying her sinuses out.) and that has negatively impacted her eating. So, positive eating vibes are much appreciated.

Speaking of her oxygen needs, she is in the weird in between stage. If we don't have her on oxygen during the night her levels go too low. If we have her on oxygen her levels go too high. Since her eyes are mature, amongst other reasons, it is better to be too high than too low, but being too high mean her machine "alarms" all night long. I slept on the couch in her room last night for several hours, silencing her machine every couple minutes. It was miserable.