David's Swallow Test

I don't know who reads this that might not be familiar with my oldest grandson, so a quick explanation then a copy of what his Mom wrote on her family blog page. David was born way early. He was 1 pound 3 ounces at birth. Yes, that caused a lot of difficulties. Here is a photo from early on in Riley's ICU.

But things are steadily improving. He is an active, healthy 3 year old.

He went for a test yesterday that should be another step toward his eating solid food. Here is Becky's post:

Thursday, July 3, 2008

David's Swallow Study!!!

David did his swallow study today. He did great! It was so cool to watch the video of him swallowing. It was a little scary looking through David's head. You could see his glasses and the little metal circles on the glasses strap. When Aman started feeding David he couldn't get any liquid out of the sippy so they took the stopper out of the sippy . The liquid went down with no problems. David kept pointing to himself and when he did you could see through his finger. He didn't want to eat but Aman got him to take a bite. When he got the food to the back of his mouth he kind of gagged on it. Stacey says he probably gagged because of the taste of the barium.

Stacey said to try thicker liquids like milk or V-8 Smoothies. Next week we are working on Sprite with orange juice, and ice cream.