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Category Archives: Inspiration
Holiday sweetness
A couple days ago, Stella and I made a gingerbread house. Actually, I put it together following step-by-step instructions, while she ate the chimney, tree, and most of the roof’s structurally necessary frosting. Later, the same frosting would come out … Continue reading
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Tagged christmas tree skirt, gingerbread house, holiday banner, holiday crafts, motherhood, star tree topper, toddler
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“Babies”
(Update: YouTube took it down, so here is the Babies trailer on Moviefone.com, all legal and whatnot.) I can’t wait to see this documentary. I suspect that “Babies” will provide some much needed perspective for neurotic U.S. moms like me. … Continue reading
3 reasons to smile
Stella’s Auntie Corinne (my youngest sister) and Uncle Colin (the duo also known as “C squared”) flew in from Boston for a few days, but now they are gone, and Stella and I are suffering from withdrawal. Just before C … Continue reading
Posted in Family update, Inspiration, Life with a baby, toddler
Tagged baby, family, miracles, parenthood, thirteen months old, toddler, tube weaning success
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Behold: Tube weaning research and guidelines
When is the last time a research paper made you cry? Around the time of Stella’s wean, and since then, I’ve come across information that moved me on many levels. I’d like to pass along these sought-after papers to as … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Research and resources, The tube, Tube weaning
Tagged Austria, baby, bottle feeding, bottle refusal, child, Child & Adolescent Nutrition, dysphagia, enteral feeding, feeding issue, food refusal, g-tube, Gastrostomy, Graz, Graz method, graz model, ICAN, infant, Infant Mental Health Journal, infant nutrition, infantile feeding disorders, Marguerite Dunitz-Scheer, nasogastric feeding tube, nasogastric tube, NG tube, ng tube weaning guidelines, ng tube weaning success, oral aversion, Stella Johnson, tube feeding, Tube weaning research, tube weaning success, tube-fed infants, weaning
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Meet Diego
Back in mid-November, when Stella’s NG tube was put into her cute nose and down into her then-hungry and confused tummy, I was understandably freaked out. I wondered if it was the right thing to do. I worried about how … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, The tube, Tube weaning
Tagged awesomeness, baby, feeding aversion, feeding issue, gastroenterology, GERD, gi, nasogastric tube, new parents, NG tube, ng tube weaning success, premature baby, premature birth, reflux, rocio and diego, tube feeding, tube weaning success, weaning
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A freakout. A rant. And endless gratitude.
Early this afternoon, Stella got upset and took only 100 mls from the bottle. It was really weird. All my fears and worries came rushing back. Granted, she took around 180 before and after that. But what a scare. I … Continue reading
Posted in Appointments, Inspiration, Lessons in parenting, occupational therapy, Tube weaning, Weight check
Tagged ann keppler, awesomeness, baby, baby growth percentiles, BabyCenter, bottle feeding, childbirth and the newborn: the complete guide, cow's milk intolerance, Cranial osteopathy, devorah steinecker, dr. stephanie farrell, first weeks, GERD, gratitude, graz model, infant, janet whalley, jessica bloom, judy herrigel, kathleen kendall-tackett, lactation consultants, maguerite dunitz-scheer, new parents, NG tube, ng tube weaning success, occupational therapy, parenthood, pregnancy, reflux, robin glass, sarah tyack, seattle children's hospital, six-month-old, thomas numrych, trish raymer, tube feeding, tube weaning success, weaning
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Days 22 through 25: Stella got her groove back
As Stella’s occupational therapist put it, “Stella has internalized the joy of eating.” Her feeding aversion is, well, history. A memory. Though not a distant memory, of course. We still get nervous if she goes for a long stretch without … Continue reading
Posted in Bottle feeding progress, Inspiration, occupational therapy, Tube weaning
Tagged awesomeness, baby, bottle feeding, cow's milk intolerance, feeding issue, formula feeding, GERD, graz model, infant, kayleigh freeman, new parents, NG tube, ng tube weaning success, occupational therapy, parenthood, patty griffin, reflux, seattle children's hospital, tube feeding, tube weaning success, weaning
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Tube-free Stella: Day 1
Stella is off and running. I am so proud of her. In short, she is responding well and our confidence is growing. She can do this. It is expected that she will lose a little bit of weight. I am on strict instructions … Continue reading
How will we play this hand?
In between feedings and worrying about feedings, I was flipping around the airwaves when I briefly paused on a news show. I caught the end of a remembrance montage that honored some of the incredible people we lost in 2008. … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Lessons in parenting
Tagged baby, feeding issue, infant, new parents, NG tube, parenthood, Randy Pausch, reflux
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Meet Libby.
Stella’s occupational therapist, Robin Glass, has fielded many a teary phone call from me. A great support to Stella and myself, she’s talked me through many tube-related worries and emotional upheavals. Knowing that I needed a boost, Robin connected me with a mom … Continue reading
