Day 5 ...Day out to the Drug Clinic

Off we went to the drug clinic with babycakes for his weekly appointment, he has been off morphine for 2 weeks now and showing no signs of withdrawals.

Evidently at his last appointment he was having long periods of very unsettled times which the Dr's were concerned about and were considering putting him back on a low dose of morphine but they weren't sure whether it was that he needed more morphine, or whether it was his colic or reflux causing the unsettledness.

I fronted up today saying that I had changed his formula which DOC's (Department of Community Services) disapprove of us foster carers doing, why?, I have no idea!

I am told by a DOC's worker that it falls under nutrition...Bollix!

On quite a few occasions I have tried to explain to DOC's that the formula that a baby comes home from hospital on is the one the hospital receives for free and it secures ongoing sales for that company that makes it and it doesn't necessarily mean its the right formula for baby and you sometimes have to experiment to find the right one....it usually falls on deaf ears though.

When DOC's rang the other day to check on babycakes Ced told them I had changed his formula and it was deathly silent..he then went onto say that he has had no colic, putrid whoops or nappy rash...by all accounts it was OK then.

I know that Latino and Asian babies especially are lactose intolerant and require a lactose free formula and usually drug addicted babies also need lactose free because their little bodies don't cope with normal formula, I had done research on good old Google and it said that a drug affected baby's gut is very sensitive and LF is easier on the tummy.

Fortunately today the Dr's at the clinic agreed with me and gave me a script for S26LF and said I had done a fabulous job with him in the short time we have had him, he'd put on 600g...geez he really is a BUDDHA baby now!