Friday, April 23, 2010

Enjoying Aloe Gold [gel] orally



See how Evan loves the Aloe Gold [gel]?

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Mid-April day ? ... back to posts

OK, is it school holidays? a computer too slow so driving me mental? or too big a bite taken into the work pie [of paid relm] ? or did I just get distracted?

Could be all or some on any one particular day, but perhaps I need a bit of the Xtras to clarify my mental focus! [always a consideration]

But, no, I wouldn't dip in to a grossly depleted supply of great goods for our handsome young son. Evan really does love these products [and, no, I'm not a distributor or in any way financially benefiting from the promotion of Univera products]. For his holistic joy and nurturing needs, I really do hope that these become available to the Australian market soon. He seems to get a lot out of what we give him. And when we miss, or cut back too much, the symptoms of digestion system issues and reflux appear again.

So back to the "posting" of what's given, how much, and when:

Because we only have three 100mL bottles left of Essentials [Xtras ran out 2 days ago], and one packet of Aloe Gold [gel], I have given Evan a much decreased dose of every item and spread out over greater time, so I'll summarise for the past week [or two?]...

Every 2nd to 3rd day I give Evan 30-40mL of Essentials, mixed with equal part water, through his stomach PEG. This I give early afternoon easy since it's school hols...next week we're back in class so it'll be late arvo].

I give a few small [1-2mL at a time] spoons of Aloe Gold [gel] directly into Evan's mouth, and even got the picture [see photo when I get around to uploading it...] because he seems to love the taste.

Results: he's still happy, but reflux has recently appeared as a symptom again, with overnight vomiting 3 nights ago, and once again last night.

Bugger!

I'm still looking at getting more product. We'll find a way. Just watching our beautiful boy grow a little more joyful each day.

Must get them all [Evan, plus his big bro, Kaden, and little sis, Sienna] out of the shower now.
Movie time.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

what Day is it?

OK - wow - long time since "daily" update... about a week.
Mum/[Me]/I became involved with an interesting new business proposal. Won that, so mind is back to balance again. No no one was neglected...just the peripherals, like blog-land.

As a matter of fact, I won't update on the daily Univera experience, because it's all generalised for the last week.

We started running short on supplies about 7 days ago and I cut back, rather than running out completely all of a sudden, on the dose given each day.

On advice after a couple of overnight [small] vomits we started giving Ageless Xtra and Essentials in the afternoon. The 2 vomit episodes were directly related to the nights I gave Evan the Ageless Xtra and Essentials late in the evening, or even combined with overnight feeds.

He enjoys the flavour of the Aloe Gold [gel] mixed with apple sauce and/or yoghurt, so this is easily given to him orally as morning and evening meal. I think I even mixed it once with Evan's mashed spud w/ or w/out gravy.

[Hey, anything's possible: I used to puree pizza when he was 100% orally fed in hopes that something would put weight on his beautiful, but way-too-slim, body.]

Now that we're running out I'm looking at the best way to source more. Russ and I have discussed how this has benefited Evan and we'd like to invest the money and time into continuing with these supplements.

I describe it like this: Evan is like a flower that now has adequate water he is blooming.

We're at the farm this Easter weekend. Plenty of fresh air and fresh eggs from the chooks' bums. Light breeze and 28 degrees C today. Evening should be balmy with 23 - comfortable for an Easter Friday BBQ [yes, we eat meat on this Good Friday].

Happy Easter everyone!