Day 4

I'm a little late posting, but today was pretty rough and by the end of the day I was just too exhausted to do anything else.  The boys both had good points and bad points today. James had a great morning, he ate some yogurt and drank some milk and it seemed like he was starting to make a connection between hunger and eating.  By afternoon he was getting too fussy to want to eat anything else.  Sam didn't want anything this morning, but decided to drink a little juice this afternoon.  They each threw quite a few tantrums throughout the day, and I think they may have just been feeling a bit too hungry and grumpy to want to try anything.  
A big part of this therapy is building trust and helping James and Sam to not be afraid of putting things in their mouths.  They have had so many scary and negative experiences with things going in their mouths, and so I have to keep reminding myself that this is really hard for them.  Eating is the hardest thing they have ever had to learn, and expecting them to do it in just 10 days is really asking a lot of them.  They are so amazing and I know they can do it, I just have to be more patient and understand that this is just as hard for them, if not harder, as it is for me. Heidi says that days 4-6 are usually the hardest so hopefully after these next couple days things will start to get better.