We're just back from visiting my friend and her lovely 7 month son. He's such a cutie! She's given me permission to start a thread here to ask for some ideas.
Her DS has tongue tie which has grown back after 2 previous operations. They are waiting to go private for a third op under general anaesthetic, because it is affecting his feeding significantly and at night, when he only has milk to keep him going, he is waking up frequently to feed. The health visitor has been and thinks that he's using his tongue to create the latch, which is making feeding very tiring for him. They are working on him taking a bottle, he doesn't take much from it yet. During the day he can go 3 hours ish between feeds as the solids are giving him some energy.
His weight is dropping down the growth curves, and the health visitor has advised that he should have as high calorie a diet as possible. He's been on solids a couple of months but needs to stay on puréed food for now as the tongue tie means he can't form a bolus of food to swallow.
My friend is gluten intolerant and suspects he is too, so gluten is off the menu. She's introduced dairy, including goats milk and yogurt, which he likes. He is having a bit of formula mixed into meals.
So I'm turning to my resident food experts! Could you suggest any high calorie combinations/meals we haven't though of yet that could be suitable?
Thankyou!