Tube Weaning - Day 3

Today for the first time, we didn't feed Max his breakfast through his tube. It was a little strange getting up and puttering around the kitchen, pulling things out of the fridge, filling bowls, plates and cups, instead of warming a bottle and pouring its contents into a gravity feeding bag.

Max's fondness for tossing his food overboard his highchair tray prompted us to move breakfast to the living room floor. A strange mishmash of foods was laid out on the floor for exploring, and mess making. Toast with peanut butter, and with jam, berries, oatmeal, fruit and veggie puree, veggie straws, wafer cookies, cups with soy milk, water, and berry smoothie. Max didn't waste any time diving in. He dumped out plates, stirred in bowls, mushed his hands in this and that, fed us his latest discovery, and had a few licks and sips.

We don't really suspect that he's going to do much in the way of eating until he isn't getting fed through the tube and real hunger sets in. For now he's just getting accustomed to exploring food and more fully participating in meal times. We're not quite sure what he's feeling right now, but after having no breakfast and a shrunken lunch, he woke up from his nap with a renewed interest in food. He nibbled his way through a couple of veggie straws and mushed around in a maple creme cookie.

Maple creme mascara

For dinner he had more fun dipping some roasted carrot and parsnip in some plum sauce. More licks, but nothing more.

Tomorrow we'll say our farewells to what's left of Max's tube lunch, and then on Sunday he won't be fed via tube until mid-afternoon. Lots of deep breaths!