CHOC Day 4: Making Great Progress

Today was quite an exhausting day. Its 7pm, my kid is in the playroom and I am sitting on her bed typing away, and wanting to fall asleep all at the same time. I think we are both a little homesick at this point; we miss our beds, our DVR's, Stephen, and Jasmine. But with 4 days down 15 to go and the fact that shes doing amazing is what keeps us going.

This morning for breakfast she 1 1/4 pancakes, tried some cottage cheese, tried some orange juice, ate 1 pear and 2 oz of milk. Not a ton this morning, but I think she wasnt feeling to good.

Snack was 3 slices of apple, 2 graham crackers, 2 oz strawberry milk, 1/2 of an uncrustable,

peanut butter (she dipped her apples and crackers), and 2 oz of whole milk.

Lunch was a ton of new things for her. She ate 1 oz of chicken noodle soup, a slice of an orange, all of her milk, 65% of pasta salad, and 75% bag of sunchips.

Snack pm, she ate, 5oz of Chocolate milk, 1/8th of a granola bar, 40% of her turkey sandwich with honey slathered all over. Gag lol.

Dinner was awesome! She had a whole dinner roll with 2 tbsp of butter, 22 grapes, 75% of her penne pasta noddles, 50% of the meat sauce, 4oz of milk, and you know she was full because she only had 80% of her ice cream.

We also had our Friday meeting with the team today, in which Stephen actually got to call in from the boat to listen in and ask questions. Caitlin has surpassed all of her goals this week with flying colors. Her goal was 1700 calories a day, and HER average is 2100 a day, shes had 0 night time feedings, and shes actually tried about 15 new things instead of 8. They are really proud of the work she is doing and how much she wants this.

The next goals, are going to be having her eat harder foods and getting her to take her meds by mouth instead of the tube. I assume this week is probably the "honeymoon phase" and that she will start rebelling a bit as we go into next week.

I have to say I dont think I have ever been prouder than when she looks at me at dinner time and says, "Lets Eat!". She has also taken a liking to writing in her food journal again but drawing pictures of what her food looks like, colors and all. I am happy that this helps her feel "safe" with food.

That is all for now until tomorrow. Hopefully bedtime is coming soon :)