some progress

Well, the results of the swallow study are that they recommend Sophie go to an intensive "day therapy" for a few weeks. Basically, instead of the 2 30min sessions she has a week now, this will be all day from like 8-5. This just gives her more opportunities to learn swallowing and eating, and they work on the transition to solid foods with you. So, that will be good to get it all over with, instead of dragging it out for years.

On the other hand, Sophie has made good progress on eating some foods. We've been power-feeding her cheerios and corn-puffs (kinda like cheetos puffs, but for babies). Some days she does really good and will crunch and eat them. It's hard to see her swallowing, but they disappear and don't come out, so she must be eating them. And then sometimes she just crams it in without trying to chew or let it dissolve and it works its way back to her throat and she gags and hacks on it. But we demonstrated this morning the puff eating and her therapist was really encouraged. So, we try to give them to her as often as we can, which means when she's not getting her formula and when the dogs aren't around her. They've already come to recognize her as a jackpot of goodies.

We think the weight gain is going good. We only have to take her in for weight checks every 3 weeks now, so no formal numbers til next Friday. But we used our bathroom scale to try and approximate and figure she's well over 16 pounds, maybe 16.5! I told her she's out of bowling ball territory now.

Here's a video of her making noises at the dogs (who are outside). She started making a "T" sound the other day, usually "ahh-ti", and frequently directs it towards the dogs, especially Ike.