Meltdown.

I don't know what happened today but my girl had a meltdown at therapy and could not be consoled. THe fact that she had a long nap yesterday and then could not sleep last night didn't help the situation but it wasn't typical of Gracie at all. Things started off ok. Her little friend Leah was there today. Then when we went into the kitchen to eat, literally all HELL broke loose. They asked Leah's mom to sit in the foyer so therefore we tried it with me out of the room too. Both girls were crying at the top of their voices so they actually had to break it up after what seemed like an eternity. IT seemed they were feeding fear off of each other. I could not get Gracie to calm down. We went downstairs to swing and THAT didn't even work. So we had one more feeding separately and we decided to call it a day because there was nothing I or Trisch could do to calm her down.
So we went home and for 2 hours till Joy came home, Gracie tried to get me to take her to the outdoor swing, in the rain. I tried to distract her with videos on youtube which worked for a little while. Then we get in the car to pick Joy up and she falls asleep!
But not for long. Tried a bottle. Tried a bath. Brought out one of sister's loud toys. NOTHING WORKED.
In desperation I texted Carey Anne, our speech and feeding therapist, begging to use the listening program ( on a night we weren't scheduled to use it). Thankfully, she said yes. So Gracie sat on my lap for 15 minutes and when she told me we were done, there was a silly smile on her face. Amazing.
Then about an hour later...... we finally had a stinky diaper( well, two exactly). And now my girl is giggling and playing again.
AMEN.
Tomorrow starts daily prune juice and cod liver oil hopefully!!!! Lesson learned. ;)