Sunday, November 16, 2008
Doing Better
So we have settled back in to being home. Sophia saw her cardiologist on Tuesday when we got home and he could tell that she sounded better then she did when she came in the previous week. We aren't doing another echo until her next appointment (Dec. 11), but he assured me that I could call whenever I needed to and that I wouldn't be bothering the girls at the front desk!! We then took her to the pediatrician on Wednesday for her four month appointment. She didn't get her four month shots, just her synagis shots. The doctor didn't want to give her five shots at one time because he thought it would be too much for her with what she had gone through the last few days. She is up to 13 pounds 1 ounce; a little less then she was before we left, but she is eating much better. She did get her three four month shots on Friday and she did pretty well. She is on captopril, lasix and asprin. She HATES taking the captopril and it is like murder giving it to her. She isn't spitting the medicine out right now, but she is holding it in her mouth and not swallowing it. The nurse told Jason to blow on her face and that should make her swallow, but that worked the first two times and now she just sit's there and talks to us until we finally get it down. If anyone has ANY tips to getting her to take her meds, I am MORE then willing to hear about it! The one good thing in all of this is she has been sleeping through the night. (Great, since I did type this I am sure that I just jinxed myself)
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Izzy was on captaprill when she was the same age. She has swallowing issues so we had to mix her meds with her thickened formula and she did not complain when we did that maybe try pulling her meds then pulling some formula/milk and shaking the syringe to mix and giving it to her that way. only thing is if she is not a fan then it is more to have to get down! Izzy is now big enough to have enalapril which is a 2x a day med instead of 3x a day but she was on capt un til she was big enough. Izzy hated prevacid adn so we mixed it with a tiny amount of sweeten koolaid mix ( a nurse at children s suggested it) some pharmacies wil also give you flavors for medicine so ask your card and pharmacy if that is possible?
Glad you're home and Sophia is doing well. Giving meds are the worst! I still have problems with Maddie...I've been mixing her asprin with a little bit of applesauce and giving it to her that way since she started solids. I was also told that you can put it in a little bit of her milk and give it through a bottle. I know Maddie's always preferred the Children's Captopril versus the ones filled over here. The flavor and consistency of it, maybe? It's just always a gamble whether she'll cooperate or not with her meds! I now try to give her just a teeny amount at a time and then blow on her face when she doesn't swallow. Good luck...I always dread that time of day when meds are due!
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