Saturday, February 23, 2008

I need a system

Sarah is absolutely thriving on solid foods. I'm giving her water and vanilla soymilk to drink. Occasionally she has a few sips of organic juice. I'm making all of her food from scratch. I bought a food mill and a ton of storage containers. Now I just need to set up a system where I can make her lunches for the week and freeze them. I bought beautiful organic fruits and veggies for her. Dinners I can handle just making her serving on the spot but for lunch I don't want to have to cook and puree every day. The girls and I always have a quick simple lunch because we are usually really busy all week. So, I'd like to just be able to grab Sarah something out of the freezer and warm it up. So I'm thinking Sunday afternoons might be a good time. I can get Hannah and Jess to help too.

I'm keeping a food diary for her as well. Her nutritionist is coming in a few days to weigh her and I want to sit with her and go over her new diet and make sure she's getting proper nutrition. I may wind up having to buy her some type of drink similar to the Pediasure, just to keep those calories. I've been adding butter and cream everywhere I can for the time being. She seems to be tolerating the dairy alot better too. I haven't given her milk to drink though just because of how horrible it was every other time I tried. She is doing fine with small amounts of yogurt though.

She's being tested by all her therapists this coming week because we have her one year review in March. They need to get their reports in and then we can set up a time for everyone to meet here. I'm pretty ticked off at her initail service coordinator though. We had a day where Sarah had four therapies scheduled in one day. I had them spread out so that she could have her nap time and not be overwhelmed. We had to do it this way because the poor kid had therapy every day and I desperately needed a day off in the middle of the week. Hannah and Jess have homeschool activities and I have tons of paperwork to keep up with for our contracting business. So apparently, you aren't supposed to have that many therapies in one day BUT there is a special waiver I can sign and have them approve that can override that rule. Every one else was fine with it and I wanted to go ahead and keep the schedule and sign it. Well, her initial coordinator(who I met twice nearly a whole year ago) decided that it wasn't going to work out and that Sarah doesn't have "enough therapies going on" to warrant having four in one day. Um......I have nine different people in and out of my house nearly every week. She has more than one therapy every day, except Wednesday. I homeschool two other children and they have a life too. Plus I have things to do that don't involve Early Intervention. Therapy is NOT my entire life and I resent her deciding how my schedule should be. I plan to say something directly to her at the meeting. That pissed me off.

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