Making New Habits

We all know it's not easy to make new habits and very hard to break old ones. Which is the struggle I am facing now.

Soren is now on an anti-viral medicine. It is a medicine that is to be given three times a day. I give Soren all his meds in the am and pm. And I don't want to bother his school with the middle dose if it ends up not being permanent.

So I'm doing it. Or I'm trying. But this is very much not in my routine, so I'm struggling.

There are various components to my struggle.

1.) The lunch meds...I do well on the weekends, when I feed him lunch. But then when he's back at school, I forget to give him his afternoon dose when he gets home from school. Ugh.

2.) I'm also supposed to be giving him a multi-vitamin, something I've been incredibly lax about doing. I think I gave it to him one day and then have forgotten since.

3.) Soren is currently on 5 meds (3 anti-seizure, 1 antibiotic, 1 anti-viral) In the morning, I used to just plop the pills in his mouth, give him his bottle, and have him swallow them down. Now there are so many, he's choking! And it's not a big breakfast kinda guy.

4.) Due to the diet changes, I need to make sure that Soren is getting in enough calories, so I need to add more food.

So this is the habit I'm trying to form.

1.) Feed Soren a little breakfast (emphasis on little) just to get the pills down. Some banana and Rice Krispies, maybe some Cream of Wheat (if it's allowed). Just something that will do better and no choking.

2.) Feed Soren a little snack after school. Usually he gets off the bus and I just let him chill in his vision box until dinner. But today, having forgotten his lunch meds at Feeding Therapy, I fed him a snack. Now, mind you, he had CHOWED DOWN at Feeding Therapy.

Well, clearly the boy was hungry, because he then wolfed down the snack, pills and all.

Wish me luck. I am a creature of mainly bad habits but I'm hoping these good ones will stick.

Amy