I mentioned earlier that during Peanut’s last check-up her doctor wanted to tweak the green bean shake recipe to adjust for her age by changing the formula to PediaSure. (If you don’t remember the original version, you can find it here.) Peanut has been drinking the green bean/formula recipe for almost a year now with the only change being the addition of Metamucil a few times a day. The challenge with the recipe had always been finding the formula – Pregestimil – as it costs twice as much as any standard formula it’s normally only used as a last resort so only one place in town carried it. Luckily, our pharmacy offered to stock it at the same price and ordered based on Peanut’s schedule plus what they might sell off the shelf.

You can imagine our initial relief at the thought Peanut would be moving away from a hard to find formula to something a little more mainstream like PediaSure. We got head of ourselves…

Apparently, there are more types of PediaSure than I ever imagined. And as you might expect given Peanut’s condition, the PediaSure we’ll be using isn’t the standard, pick-it-up-at-the-grocery version – her type is PediaSure Peptide 1.0. But since we live in a world where nothing is more than a few clicks away, we were able to start ordering it by the case online.

Peanut will go through a case of PediaSure every 10 – 12 days, and the first two cases where delivered yesterday. It was like Christmas.

Peanut was ready to take the PediaSure straight from the bottle, but we still needed to add green beans before the shake was complete. She took her first “new” PediaSure green bean shake this morning. It smells more pleasant than the old version, and she seemed to like the taste…and so far she it’s coming out the other end O.K. Any GI patient (or parent of a GI patient) will tell you it’s a little scary switching to something new and waiting to see how their digestive system will handle it. So far so good. The true test will be to if she continues to grow as well as she did before the switch. We’ll find out at her next appointment in early April!