Weight: 13kg (whoop-whoop! - an all time high for us!)
It is now literally a year in Nov since we are back from Austria and things are going well in the Hershensohnn household, with Tayden now hitting a whopping 13kg!
Every day he is eating more and current favourites include eggs, mom’s slap chips, granny’s pumpkin fritters, chicken done on the braai, the ever popular once-you-pop-you-cant-stop red Pringles along with Oatees, peas (FROZEN!!!!) and most vegetables. Tayden has now progresses to 3 regular meals a day with snacks inbetween and any other time he wants them (you didn’t honestly think I would deprive him did you? Haha!)
The drinking is coming along and granted, the progress is much slower than we would like, but there IS progress and for that we are eternally grateful. Tayden now drinks between 300-400ml on a good day, excluding milk from cereal, jelly, ice lollies etc. How awesome is that? This is still nowhere near what we need him to drink to get rid of the tube but we are making progress each day! Tayden struggles a lot with constipation (due to drinking so little) and we have been in contact with the paed again. Our minimum liquid requirement for him is now up to 1-1.2l a day whereas it was 750ml. But, each day brings us a day closer to taking it out and another day where our little guy is learning to drink more!
Tayden’s speech is still a cause for concern and it is most frustrating for him when mom is blond and has NO CLUE what he is trying to tell me! We have now made a plan and granny sits and gives us a rundown of the day with Tayden adding his two cents worth in as we go along, so that when he tries to tell me about things later, I have some clue as to what he is referring to! One day he carried on about a “wo” for ages, and kept pointing outside, I had no idea – until I phoned granny to see WHAT he was carrying on about as he had started crying because he was so frustrated and irritated with me not understaind him. It turned out he was talking about an earthworm that he and granny had found. After that, all smiles!
He has, however, learnt to overcome the speech issues in imaginative ways. We are still deciding whether this is a good or bad thing actually…but whatever it is, it does show that he is clever at getting around obstacles such as not talking properly –another example being when he was younger and didn’t want to crawl so would bum shuffle to get from one side of the room to another!
Now, he is ingenious in describing what he wants. He kept showing granny his finger and pointing to the cupboard. What did he want? A finger biscuit! Then he wanted to explain he wanted his boiled egg in his giraffe eggcup but can’t say the word giraffe so kept prodding granny and telling her “egg in….long neck!” (and who doesn’t know that a giraffe has a l-o-n-g neck!)
We are still in two minds as to whether to send Tayden to a playgroup next year. We know he will be very upset at first as it takes him a time to settle and he is a mommy’s boy due to what he has been through but we know he does need the interaction and he WILL enjoy it, that we know, he just needs to give it some time. The disadvantage would be possible infections that he could pick up, other kids that are sick etc. But I know that once I find the right playgroup for him – mornings only so that granny can keep an eye on his eating and give him lunch – he will have a ball.
We had our second wee-wee in the potty yest and we all celebrated with him. Unlike other kids his age, he isn’t potty trained yet and won’t be for a while at night since I think it is a bit unfair to feed him through his tube while he is sleeping and then expect him to stay dry! But, we hope for the best and hope to see him nappyfree during the day by the end of December. I will use my leave to concentrate on getting the potty training right…but unfair to expect that from granny who has white carpets in her house!!!!
Our next paed app is on 15th Dec and I am soo looking forward to seeing his doctor’s face when he measures his height and weighs him. I can see the difference already and have to smile and do a little gig everytime I put him in clothes where I can see he has grown.
So onward and upward in our progress, Tay is doing FABULOUSLY and we are so proud of the progress he makes each and everyday!
It is now literally a year in Nov since we are back from Austria and things are going well in the Hershensohnn household, with Tayden now hitting a whopping 13kg!
Every day he is eating more and current favourites include eggs, mom’s slap chips, granny’s pumpkin fritters, chicken done on the braai, the ever popular once-you-pop-you-cant-stop red Pringles along with Oatees, peas (FROZEN!!!!) and most vegetables. Tayden has now progresses to 3 regular meals a day with snacks inbetween and any other time he wants them (you didn’t honestly think I would deprive him did you? Haha!)
The drinking is coming along and granted, the progress is much slower than we would like, but there IS progress and for that we are eternally grateful. Tayden now drinks between 300-400ml on a good day, excluding milk from cereal, jelly, ice lollies etc. How awesome is that? This is still nowhere near what we need him to drink to get rid of the tube but we are making progress each day! Tayden struggles a lot with constipation (due to drinking so little) and we have been in contact with the paed again. Our minimum liquid requirement for him is now up to 1-1.2l a day whereas it was 750ml. But, each day brings us a day closer to taking it out and another day where our little guy is learning to drink more!
Tayden’s speech is still a cause for concern and it is most frustrating for him when mom is blond and has NO CLUE what he is trying to tell me! We have now made a plan and granny sits and gives us a rundown of the day with Tayden adding his two cents worth in as we go along, so that when he tries to tell me about things later, I have some clue as to what he is referring to! One day he carried on about a “wo” for ages, and kept pointing outside, I had no idea – until I phoned granny to see WHAT he was carrying on about as he had started crying because he was so frustrated and irritated with me not understaind him. It turned out he was talking about an earthworm that he and granny had found. After that, all smiles!
He has, however, learnt to overcome the speech issues in imaginative ways. We are still deciding whether this is a good or bad thing actually…but whatever it is, it does show that he is clever at getting around obstacles such as not talking properly –another example being when he was younger and didn’t want to crawl so would bum shuffle to get from one side of the room to another!
Now, he is ingenious in describing what he wants. He kept showing granny his finger and pointing to the cupboard. What did he want? A finger biscuit! Then he wanted to explain he wanted his boiled egg in his giraffe eggcup but can’t say the word giraffe so kept prodding granny and telling her “egg in….long neck!” (and who doesn’t know that a giraffe has a l-o-n-g neck!)
We are still in two minds as to whether to send Tayden to a playgroup next year. We know he will be very upset at first as it takes him a time to settle and he is a mommy’s boy due to what he has been through but we know he does need the interaction and he WILL enjoy it, that we know, he just needs to give it some time. The disadvantage would be possible infections that he could pick up, other kids that are sick etc. But I know that once I find the right playgroup for him – mornings only so that granny can keep an eye on his eating and give him lunch – he will have a ball.
We had our second wee-wee in the potty yest and we all celebrated with him. Unlike other kids his age, he isn’t potty trained yet and won’t be for a while at night since I think it is a bit unfair to feed him through his tube while he is sleeping and then expect him to stay dry! But, we hope for the best and hope to see him nappyfree during the day by the end of December. I will use my leave to concentrate on getting the potty training right…but unfair to expect that from granny who has white carpets in her house!!!!
Our next paed app is on 15th Dec and I am soo looking forward to seeing his doctor’s face when he measures his height and weighs him. I can see the difference already and have to smile and do a little gig everytime I put him in clothes where I can see he has grown.
So onward and upward in our progress, Tay is doing FABULOUSLY and we are so proud of the progress he makes each and everyday!