I'm so glad this week is almost over. Today Benjamin had a much better day. I definitely think the sedative was causing him to cry the way he was yesterday, it was so strange. Today he was back to himself. At noon the occupation therapist gave him a bottle of milk. I bought preemie bottles, with slower flow nipples and that seemed to do the trick. Because Benjamin is a preemie the suck, swallow and breathe aspect isn't co-ordinated, thats why he aspirated in the first place. So him learning will just take time. I just have to watch him carefully when he's bottling to make sure he breathes. Its just a matter of pulling the bottle out of his mouth when he stops breathing and keeps sucking. I'm sure he'll get the hang of it. Once he gets better at it we can do it more often. He took 1 hours worth of milk...and he didn't throw up. He's been spitting up here and there, but nothing major. The doctor also started him on a new med. to increase the motility of his stomach and bowel. So hopefully that will help get things through at a quicker pace. Tomorrow morning we have the small bowel follow through, which is another barium swallow. Then the surgeon will know for sure if the issue is a sluggish bowel or narrowing from scar tissue. So it will be an anxious day..and it takes a while to follow it through so we likely won't get results until the end of the day or tomorrow. Over all today was much needed good day.