a swallow study

Today I had to take out little girl to have a swallow study done. She's had eating issues since the very beginning, and at first it was diagnosed as reflux, but then it started looking like more of a swallowing problem, so the pediatrician wanted her to have this test done. They feed the baby barium in a bottle and then watch her swallow it on a screen that looks like an x-ray, but the picture is moving instead of still like an x-ray. They had me feed her, but she started crying right away and wouldn't eat. They then had me give her her regular bottle, which she ate fine, and then switch it really quickly with the barium bottle, but she was too smart for that. She figured that out and started crying again. At one point they let me take her out of the chair where she was strapped in, to calm her down, but then I had to put her back and try again. It wasn't very successful.

But I guess they were able to see enough of the barium go down to see that she swallows okay. Then I got her out of the chair and took her to another room and they let me feed her the regular bottle the normal way, and they watched. The occupational therapist showed me a different way to hold her head that might help some. We'll see with time, I guess.

So the whole thing was pretty inconclusive, but they didn't see any major problems, so that's good. Actually, she's been doing better in the last month, so I wasn't expecting them to find anything (it just took me this long to get in for an appointment!!!).

That was the excitment in our world today. Oh, and tonight she's trying green beans for the first time. It's the first non-sweet thing she'll be eating, so we'll see how it goes. Hopefully there won't be green goo everywhere!