Eureka! Food Issue Solved!

I think we may have found out what the food issue with Lou is (Praise God!). It may be a little early to tell, but we think we have figured out what is going on. It's something that you won't find in a medical book and we attribute it to the orphanage situation and little food available there (if not, perhaps, simply a down syndrome thing).

We think that we have figured out that his refulx issue is completely intentional and under his control. If we sit with him after he eats and pay attention to what he is doing, he will not reflux. If we put a bowl under him, he will not reflux.

It started because we didn't want him to recycle his food. We wanted him to spit his vomit into the bowl. When we gave him the bowl, he didn't reflux. It took a little while to figure this out, but now he is eating everything that we are eating and he is not refluxing - he seems to have a lot more energy. He was actually starting to get too thin and look malnourished.

It appears that it was a habit of his and now we are trying to break it - and fast! We hope that he starts to put on the pounds (muscle, not water or whatever he had before). He certainly seems to be doing better now that we aren't feeding him the things that we THOUGHT he wouldn't reflux on (which we never figured out because it was at his will). The fact that he did it when he wanted to caused Tina a great deal of stress. Making two meals at every meal was also causing her stress. The whole family hopes that she is on the road to recovery, too! Please pray for Lou and Tina!