The Amazing Twin Adventure

Hays learned how to roll over! He did it the other day, but I thought it was just a fluke. But he's done it several time since, so i guess it's the real thing. He can roll from his tummy to his back. He hasn't quite figured out back to tummy, but he'll get there soon. We put him on a trial run of crazy-expensive formula today. He was really having an upset stomach and the doctor thinks he probably has an allergy to milk protein. We're trying this special hypo-allergenic formula for five days, and if he improves he'll have to stay on it. If it doesn't really seem to make a difference we'll put him back on breastmilk. This stuff costs $26 a can, but the other option is to cut all dairy products out of my diet. Since I live off of cheese, that ain't happening! Hopefully this stuff will do the trick and he won't be up at 4 am screaming with a stomach ache.
I talked to Will's doctor today because now they want to give him a gastric feeding tube. He's having problems with reflux and gas and it's causing him to be really agitated at night. The G-tube will help because they can vent the gas off his stomach easily. Plus, he can conyinue to work on bottle feeding. He'll need the tube until he's able to take all of his feeds from the bottle, but he has a ways to go. He's doing well with bottle feeding, but he can only take a tiny amount before he wears out. He won't be able to fully bottle feed by the time he comes home, so he'll have to have some kind of feeding tube. They don't like to send them home with an NG tube like he has now because you can have major problems if you don't get the tube in the right place. And it has to be changed every few days. The g-tube is really a safer option. But it's one more surgery (an easy one, though) and one more medical thing to take care of. Will we ever get a break? They're also going to put a probe in his esophagus to measure the severity of the reflux. If it's really bad, they'll have to do a surgical procedure called a stomach wrap. I have no idea what that involves. I figure I'll ask questions about that if and when we need to. Which we probably will, since nothing is ever easy with this child. It's a good thing he's so darn cute, because he sure is a lot of trouble!
On a happier note, thank God for vacation bible school. Mason started today and he was out of my hair from 9-12! Hays went down for a nap right after we dropped Mason off, and the house was so peaceful. I barely knew what to do with myself!