A near disaster occurred with the Torticollis baby with crooked mouth and  
tongue last week, where she began gurgling and gagging, turned, red, purple,  
then blue waiting for a 911 response.  She was revived, pediatrician called  it 
Reflux.  Pediatric Dysphasia specialist ordered swallow study which  revealed 
that she is aspirating when she drinks.  When milk was thickened,  she did not 
aspirate.  So, mother is to bottle feed breastmilk thickened  with rice 
cereal that she pulverizes into flour and adds to breastmilk as  available, formula 
when not.  She is also seeing a neurologist next.   My question to you is -- 
is rice cereal the only way to do this, or is there a  better substance to 
use?  Thanks, Ann
 
Ann  Conlon-Smith, IBCLC 
Triangle Lactation Consultants 
919-845-8826 
_www.trianglelactation.com_ (http://www.trianglelactation.com/) 



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