I am mentally preparing myself for Lucy's upcoming formula trial. Its absolutely the biggest thing on my mind right now. I am hoping to start by the beginning of next week. I have plenty of 1+ to last me should she fail on Elecare. I will be able to go back to 1+, hopefully get her recovered quickly, and then move onto another elemental formula- whether or not I have enough to get her recovered if we fail the next elemental after that, I don't know.
In short, I am very very nervous. We trialed all these formulas when Lucy was a little over age 1 and it was a disaster. It was a brutal few months for her and everyone else while we weeded through all our options. So why are we doing this again? Because we are out of options. There aren't any other complete nutritional options left so we need to retrial to be certain they are out(crossing our fingers that they aren't). If they are indeed still out then options for nutrition become complicated. It is entirely possible that she will tolerate one of them, though. Her body may have matured enough over the last three years to handle the other more "high-test" formulas. The only way to find out is to try.
I bumped Lucy's rate up to 44cc's and since we are in the first few days, its been a struggle. It seems like whenever we bump up a cc it takes a few days for Lucy's stomach to handle the difference. Hopefully in a few days she won't notice the difference anymore.
As always, thank you for checking in on Lucy!
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
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