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[quote=Anonymous]OP - I am so, so sorry that this is still going on.  I'm the PP who recommended a speech pathologist and ENT.  Sometimes, if you call the dr's office and leave a personal message on their voice mail, they will fit you in.  I think that's how we managed to get DD into the Georgetown speech pathologist office very quickly - leaving detailed messages on the specific therapist's voicemail, not just with the random person who answers the phone.  Luckily, my pediatrician also helped out by calling doctor to doctor to try to get us in once I convinced the pediatrician that I really wanted to try to get in with the speech pathologist and ENT (this was ped's one good contribution - long story, but my pediatrician was old school and kept telling me DD would eat when she needed to and wouldn't starve herself - well, that just wasn't true with DD, we attempted to let her go until she would eat per doctor's orders and she literally would go 20 hours before taking an ounce, probably enough to stop her hunger pains, but not enough to nourish her). So, my advice is to be persistent and try to get in somewhere in the next couple of days.  I saw Georgetown GI docs too, but really it was the ENT and speech pathologist that helped the most.

Also, I ended up distancing myself from many people who I had been friends with before DD was born.  I have new, more caring friends now.  I had people telling me at least DD doesn't have cancer, etc.   Of course, things could always be worse, but trying to feed a child who doesn't want to eat is pure and complete agony.  I too didn't leave the house much because I was so focused on feeding DD, which would take an hour at a time of me walking around with her, singing, coaxing her to at least put the bottle in her mouth, and expending untold energy trying to get her to eat - just to have her throw up half an hour later.   All the while, DD would scream like I was trying to kill her.  So, friends who just told me to relax and that I was being unreasonably concerned were not helpful at all and were very frustrating to me.  Easy to say if you don't have the constant stress of getting your child to eat enough to avoid a feeding tube.  So, I reevaluated friendships and am much happier now with friends who are supportive and not dismissive or heaping on other problems.  (BTW, DD never crawled - went straight to walking at 11 months from this odd scooting on her butt like she had worms thing).

As I mentioned in a previous post, though, we made it through and there is hope for you too that this will get better.  I know it seems impossible now, but don't lose hope even though it is a dark time.  The one thing that prevented me from going completely nuts was getting DH to take over night feedings so I could leave the house for a couple of hours and not hear the screaming.[/quote]

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