Oh my, he was EATING, well sort of :)

Yesterday, I gave Lewis a gingernut biscuit to 'play' with, but he decided he wanted to lick it, a few more licks and facial expressions later, i gave him a piece of chocolate, yep he was licking that too, so bit later, strapped in his hi-lo chair HE LET ME put banana to his mouth, he licked it a lot, and then HE CHEWED ON IT, and he kept chewing on it, i had to scoop the bits of banana out his mouth as he still won't swallow but YAY my little man at 6 months old yesterday CHEWED on some food, he still won't take a bottle or cup or anything and still won't swallow anything, but even just letting food near his mouth or anything near his mouth is HUGE for us WAY TO GO SUNSHINE WARRIOR LEWIS, sooooo proud of my little man.

Another big thing is we decided to try Lewis on 4 hourly feeds, while still on 3 hourly we found he kept it down better if we gave him half then the other half up to half an hour later, so thought hmm well let's try this with 4 hourly amounts n so we give him half, then thought we'd start with the other half, half an hour after the 1st half n if that didn't work we'd increase the times between the 2 halfs to 45 minutes n so on, and pleased to say that with HALF AN HOUR between halfs of his feeds, yesterday he had TWO vomits, but only little mouthfuls both times within 10 minutes of each other, this is excellent, TWO tiny vomits in a whole day on 4 hourly feeds, till this morning anyway he had quite a big vomit but it was actually mostly the snotty mucousy stuff, i always find him really sicky and mucousy in the mornings anyway.

Sooo all we need to do now is work on the swallowing issues, though i don't know what to do or try for that :s but it's all part of this CDH rollercoaster thing, but here's to hoping we have many more licked biscuits n chewed on banans :)

Can't believe my little man is 6 months old, this time last year we were early pregnant and didn't know about the CDH yet, absolutely terrified the baby would have the same heart problems our Nathan did etc and now look at him he's just sooo amazing we treasure every single day our litlle Sunshine Warrior, our wee miracle :)

Just waiting around for dates now for the fundoplication and G tube ops, hopefully be soon and we can get rid of this nasty problem causing NG tube.

Going to post the biscuit licking video and the banana licking and chewing video, need to sort out the blog n get some pics in slideshows or something, it's just getting the time :s