It's official. Merrick has decided that he will now be fasting. I'm not sure yet whether there's something he's protesting, or if it's part of his spiritual journey.
Case in point, we are at Teri and David's for dinner over the weekend. The kids were all playing in the back yard, and when it's time for dinner, his cousin Wren starts yelling - "yay, yay, dinner!". Merrick's response?....."wah, no dinner mama, no dinner!". We all sit at the table, he takes a sip of water, and says "all done mama!"....urrrgghhhhhhhh.
It's so bad that when I do catch him taking a bite of something, while I attempt to show no reaction to him about it, inside I have fireworks going off in my head, I want to do cartwheels, etc. It's so bad that we've gotten off track with our feeding philosophy, and have caught ourselves trying to sneak bites in his mouth as he zips through the kitchen. It's so bad that he's the only kid I know who really couldn't care less about cookies and other sweets. He will take 2 little nibbles of a cookie and then he's done with it.
This weekend, I pulled out my 'Child of Mine' book once again to refresh our memory on what we are supposed to do. We have to go back to square one....be completely nonchalant about food and act as though we don't care either way what or if he eats. He should eat what we are eating, and we just need to make sure there is at least one thing on the menu we know he'll love and eat. We can only control what we put in front of him, HE is the only one that can control what he eats. Ahhhh, deep breaths!
A quick background for those not up to date on the pedi appointment - when he had his last well baby check in Oct of last year, while he was in 75th percentile for height, he was under 5% for weight. That in and of itself wouldn't be too big of a deal (chalk it up to genetics...certainly not from ME....he has Craig to thank for that). What concerned the pediatrician is that his height was continuing to increase, but his weight in proportion was dropping. He ended up doing bloodwork just in case (another story in and of itself, let's just say I'd rather have my arm chopped off then have to put him through bloodwork). The pediatrician wanted to check liver and kidney function, and see if he had an issue with overactive thyroid. Turns out, all his tests came back okay except the thyroid, which was actually UNDERactive (hypothyroidism), which would actually cause the opposite problem if not treated - ie weight GAIN. So, didn't solve the mystery of the weight issue, yet we did find the issue with the thyroid. It's a miracle we found this because we weren't looking for it, and in the early stages of development this can be a big problem if undetected. So we are VERY lucky that we caught this and he is seeing an endocrinologist/taking medications to regulate his thyroid.
So we have to weigh him every other week at the pediatrician. The good news is, he is gaining weight slowly but surely. Although I have NO idea how he's gaining weight...I noticed the other day he has a bunch of bite marks on his crib....could that be sustaining him?!
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