Meg's pick .....PLAYTEX!

Meg's swallowing eval went well yesterday. The SLP was very knowledgable and interactive with Meg. Meg loved the attention and laughed and talked with the SLP and PT. She is such a social baby. We were there for an hour and a half and she watched Meg nurse, drink from a bottle, suck a pacifier, looked at her mouth thoroughly. She thinks that the main trouble is Meg's acid reflux, so we will put her back on the Zantac and talk more about that with the pediatrician. As far as her swallow goes, she has learned an inappropriate suck/swallow pattern. Rather than creating a central groove for the nipple, she is raising the base of her tongue up which is pushing the nipple out, which I already knew, but I did not know what to do about it. She gave me some exercises to do with her before she eats to retrain her tongue what to do. She feels that the blisters that she has on her soft palate are more from the reflux than from the swallow pattern. We will continue to do these exercises and talk with the pediatrician and re-evaluate our reflux meds. We will go back to see the SLP in a month for a consulation to make sure that we are making progress.

We have changed to the Playtex wide nipple bottles because seems to re-latch better on them and seeing as she is re-latching every time she swallows this will be easier for her.

I must add that the PT watched Meg for a few minutes doing her thing and she said that Meg has great muscle tone. Does this mean we will have a weight lifter or gymnast on our hands?