Ollivers dietitian appointment
today was ollivers first dietitian appointment after months of not being seen.
His new consultant is from a child development centre the same centre that olliver is on a waiting list to be seen about him being monitored and assessed for possible autism.
anyway olliver started playing up before we even got to sit down in the room with this new consultant, he was running around the waiting room climbing on everything jumping up and down throwing toys pushing his sister the list goes on at this point i knew this appointment was not going to go well.
three meltdowns later and a time out on the hospitals plastic chairs and it was our turn to go in, at first he wouldn’t go through the double doors leading to the room then once we managed to concur the double doors he was charging down the hall way refusing to go in to this room, at this point i was ready to call it quits but i stuck at it and got him in the room, next came the kicking the screaming and me trying to sit there and hold a conversation with this poor women who had no idea where to look, mum even tried to get ollie to calm down and sit still but he wasn’t having it.
within five minutes the appointment was done after ollie picked up one of the childrens chairs and through it across the room that was it, time to leave he wasn’t settling he wasn’t interested and he definitely did not want to be there. despite all of his best efforts we did manage to get him weighed inbetween all the commotion and i’m glad to say olliver has gone from being just under 20lbs to now weighing 28lbs to a lot of people that wouldn’t seem like much but after almost two years fighting to get him to gain weight at last we have succeeded.
he has now been discharged from the dietitians but he will remain on the waiting list to see a specialist about his lack of development and his behaviour.
it’s safe to say i am one very tired mumma today and i can not wait to get in to my bed and go to sleep.