Jonah's sure cute. This summer Jonah was on the calendar to start phase one of his braces journey. Sam does not like that they do this in two phases. However, I would have to agree Jonah does not have room for all his teeth. So, we went in one summer morning to get the expander put in. When we got home that day he ended coming down with a fever and was starting to feel sick. On top of it he had to then learn how to eat with this humungous contraption in his mouth. I was begging him to eat, and feeding him anything he would remotely try. It took him an hour to eat a few bites of avocado. Jonah is not a big kid, and I knew this would not be going well for him. I called the next day to let them know what was going on with him and that I was really worried, they kind of listened, but they mostly just said stick with it over the weekend and he will eventually get used to eating with it. I knew Jonah would not be able to get over it. He was living on a yogurt a day. I was fully bribing him to eat with toys and pretty much anything because his already small frame was becoming so unreasonable so quickly. I took him to the doctor in hopes I could get the doctor to call the orthodontist to express his opinion that he was in fact underweight.
In the end, it was less than week that he had the expander in his mouth and he had gotten down to 47 lbs and a week later he was back up to 60. So.. we will be revisiting braces at a later time and will be skipping the expander.
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