Jonathan had his 3 year checkup with the pediatrician this week. Things went really well. He's actually made a lot of progress and is now officially on the growth chart for both height and weight! He's on the 1% curve, but at least he's on a curve. Up to this point he hasn't even been on the curve for weight.
The doctor said things are going great and to keep on doing what we're doing. As far as he's concerned, Jonathan is a completely healthy kid, but with a button. Someone's got to be on the 1% curve, and it looks like it's going to be him.
We've also made great progress on his feedings this week. We're switching his pump feedings to bolus feedings with a syringe. We can feed him this way in about two minutes. It's also a lot more like eating where you fill your stomach all at once with food. Not only does this free us up from feeding him, it will also stretch his stomach and prepare him for eating real food.
He's still doing OK eating on his own. However, in addition to the feeding clinic suggesting he go to bolus feedings, they also informed us that Denver now has a two week intensive feeding clinic. The goal of the intensive clinic is to break the routine and get the child into the habit of eating without assistance from the tube. We've talked about traveling to the east coast to do this, but now that it's in Denver we're definitely going to attend. The schedule won't be open until late fall, but it's better then nothing.
As I've told a few of you already, I really think we're at the tail end of this thing with Jonathan. I still maintain that come the end of the year we'll be very close, if not done, with this almost three year long process.