Coburn Kids

Thursdays are the worst for me. I am pulled in 10 different directions and the day is just non-stop. You would think this would be the first clue that I should STOP scheduling everything for Thursday…

Thursday was Caden’s upper GI at Primary Children’s. He couldn’t eat for 3 hours beforehand, that didn’t bother him at all. He doesn’t like to eat anyway! So they started off by giving him some barium to eat, chalky stuff that he didn’t seem to mind actually. Took a few swallows of that, watched it come up once or twice. Then they feed 3 ounces of it through his NG tube to fill up his belly. He refluxed only once they could see, which we all ready knew he has a mild case of reflux. No aspirating though so that was good. They then took out 1 ounce of the barium (just pulled some up through his NG tube) and told me it was okay to feed him now. So the whole thing took only about 15 minutes and I went to the car to feed Caden. Here’s where I deserve the “bad mom” award. Caden is 7 months old, most babies this age and younger can take 6 ounces in their tummies. Caden can’t, of course, because his meals are only 4 ounces and his stomach is little… I gave him a full feeding. Not thinking that his tummy was all ready 1/2 full with 2 ounces of barium. He promptly and repeatedly threw up everywhere in the carseat.

So we headed home to rescue my mom from my 2 girls. Genevieve had to be in Murray an hour after I got home with Caden so we hurried and got everyone ready. She had her yellow stripe belt test for Karate. By the way, Gena was adorably cute. She’s only 6 and she has been practicing like crazy the last several days for this test. She’s been practicing her forms, her punches, her kicks and blocks. I think she did really well. She did her punches and forms excellent. She lost it a bit with her blocks and attacks but I was so proud of her the entire time as she had worked so hard. That’s her in the picture, put an orange box around her so you can tell where she’s at.

Caden had his OT over on Friday as well, he’s starting to roll and use his left side more so that’s good. He’s such a cutey but was so tired during his therapy. Also, Caden’s been throwing up a lot more lately. Every time I have the doctor ask if it’s just spit up… I can tell you, having 2 other kids, the difference between spit up and having the front of your shirt soaked. With Caden’s cleft (you may want to stop reading if this grosses you out) he also throws up out his nose. Because his soft palate in the back is still open it comes out everywhere… poor little guy.