Swallow study (other update is below the pics)

We had the swallow study yesterday and it went pretty well! We were pleasantly surprised :) She aspirated only once (where the liquid went down her airway instead of into her stomach) when they were using a faster flow nipple. Using the slow flow nipple she had improved a lot since the last swallow study. Yay!! She still needs a lot of practice and time to get it down but we are encouraged that there was improvement. We will have a speech therapist (they also work with swallowing) that will be working with her through the Babies Can't Wait program so it will be great to see how much she will improve with lots of practice. Also, the therapist that did her swallow study said that she thinks Amarie will do great with baby food since it is thicker so she will be able to eat that once she gets old enough. She still needs to have the surgery to put in the G tube (tube in her stomach instead of going down her nose) since it will take time for her to work up to get her full feedings from the bottle. The G tube will be more comfortable for her (and it will be farther away from her sneaky hands!). Her surgery (if we can get the ok from the doctors following her blood clot and brain bleed) will be June 22nd and we will probably spend a few days in the hospital..so we hope she tends be a little complicated!! :)