Therapy flop

Yesterday Emma had an appointment with a Feeding/Speech Therapist & it was pretty much a big fat waste of time. We were really hoping for some pointers or suggestions on different feeding styles or positions for Emma but that didn't happen. The therapist watched me feed Emma & very quickly saw her resistance to eat. She said she was sucking & swallowing fine as far as she could tell but every time she would pull away from the bottle she would get a little less interested & having a harder time latching on. She even tried feeding her to see if she tried aiming the bottle differently if that would help but Emma just got more aggrevated. So her only other suggestion was to go pick up the Haberman Feeder which is made for babies with feeding issues. It was a very expensive bottle & thankfully we can file it with our insurance, since you need a script from a doctor to get one. Chris did try it last night after I wen to bed & it didn't really make much difference but he isn't sure if he did it correctly or not. We are going to continue trying the new feeder over the weekend & the therapist will be back in touch with us next week.

At this point I really wish everyone would just leave her alone. We saw her cardiologist this past week & thought Emma looked great. Dr. O even said, "she is do big." I told him nobody has ever called her big, I loved hearing him say that. He even went to get his nurse who was actually over at the hospital on another case when we came in, so she could see Emma too. She also thought Emma looked great too. Her pediatrician is the one who is concerned about her weight & that she may not recover very well after the surgery. Emma has her 4 month check-up on Monday so we can tell Dr. K how dissatisfied we were with the therapist, but to be honest Dr. K wasn't really sure whether it would help Emma or not but she wanted to try everything she could.