Prepping for the EUA

With the EUA a little over 2.5 weeks away, we are trying to get Aaron ready. He doesn't have to do much except eat! 

Before the 360 degree trabeculotomy, Aaron was solidly in the 25th centile. He's been breastfed and was weaned at four months onto solids, which he took to really well. We were so excited to get him eating 'real' food and gave him broccoli, cauliflower, squash, green beans, avocado, banana, etc. Aaron ate whatever was on the spoon whether he seemed to enjoy it or not when we first weaned him and we thought, wow, this is so easy! 

Then we went to the States for two weeks. Then he caught a cold. Then he was diagnosed with congenital glaucoma and in our panic we stopped feeding Aaron solids for a few days (it seemed like a good idea at the time). Needless to say, when Aaron was weighed at Moorfields on the day of his 360 degree trabeculotomy, he weighed exactly the same as he had a few weeks prior. Doh. We slipped down to the 9th centile.

As soon as Aaron started feeling better post surgery, we steamed and pureéd everything Annabel Karmel told us to. We bought foil pouches to feed Aaron on the go. We flung, spat and smeared food. 

And we reintroduced formula. I'm neither for or against formula, I've just had so much milk that it made sense to breastfeed. However, at around Aaron's six month birthday I noticed my supply was dropping. I couldn't keep up with his needs anymore and the main goal is to keep him healthy, keep his weight steady and hopefully fatten him up a bit so it was a logical decision to switch (if not a sad and somewhat hormonal one).

When we had him weighed two weeks ago, Aaron was holding steady in the 9th centile and the health visitor wasn't worried, which is good. However, the poor kid will be starved on the day of the EUA and by the time he goes in he will have missed two feeds of solids and a few milk feeds.

Breastmilk can be given up until 9:30 on the morning of the EUA. We have saved some expressed milk in the freezer, really hoping that when we get our final instructions for the EUA that we will be approved to give him the breastmilk from the bottle! Otherwise, if memory serves, we have to starve him from 6:30 (??). Gah. Fingers crossed!

'Prepping' for the fast before the EUA