Hi Guys,

I would like to donate some Simply Thick and Elecare that I have at home but, I don't know how to do that. Does anyone needs it in here? I could put them on ebay with a symbolic fee and accept your bit or something like that...you will just need to pay for shipping fees inside the US would be better.

Any other ideas?? Tks, Lilly.

On a whim, I decided to try rice cereal again today. I prepared about 1/2 Tbsp cereal and prepared myself for a gagging-choking episode to follow the first spoonful.  Allison only gagged once.  Woo hoo!  Granted, I gave her tiny spoon "half-fulls" and kept her very distracted with silly sounds, but I call that success.   Breastfeeding is going well--about 1 1/2 oz all day--we have to vent before tube feeds to relieve gas, so I monitor breastfeeding intake while I am relieving gas.  It feels…

i just got back from an all-day conference on healthcare, specifically, "communicating with patients about medical errors"

[incidentally: what came up: if we don't tell the hospital about the mistakes they made, about how the care fell far short of "good", about our suffering, then they can't change. so if you can, if you feel like it, let them know where they screwed up!]

i spoke very briefly as a patient advocate. during break, a woman came up to me and said her son…

  Bella is a happy little girl. She's 2 (almost 3), and she has defied statistics that said she'd be either dead or deformed and/or severely delayed in her development. She doesn't care what they said. She walks, talks, and plays like a regular kid her age. She draws (really, really well for her age!) and can identify 98% of the alphabet by sight in or out of order. She can count to 7 and knows numbers up to 10 by sight, and she is fond of the color blue. She has recently started singing…