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Feeding Tube or Diet Fad?
I am a pretty laid back person. It takes a lot to rattle me. I was rattled on Monday morning. While I was getting my daughter ready for school, I was watching the “Today” show. A story came on...
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Surrender. Defeat. Failure. These are the words that circulated in my head when I reluctantly agreed to a gastrostomy for my son.My son and his twin sister were born 16 weeks early. Due to a...
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Feeding Therapy: Learning From Our Mistakes
Feeding your child can be one of the biggest, most painful struggles you’ll face after leaving the NICU. I know it has been for us. When your child doesn’t eat enough, or won’t eat at all, it can...
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Surviving Coming Home with Cords and Monitors
Okay so picture this: you are in the hospital with your baby getting ready to take him/her home. You get your little one all bundled up and in the car seat and you are on your way. Now imagine your...
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Tube feeding and traveling with a baby
Traveling with an infant or toddler is stressful. A baby with preemie issues compounds that stress with his or her complicated needs and additional supplies. On the road with a tube-fed baby, messes...
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Feeding Tube or Diet Fad?
I am a pretty laid back person. It takes a lot to rattle me. I was rattled on Monday morning. While I was getting my daughter ready for school, I was watching the “Today” show. A story came on...
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A G-Tube is Not a White Flag
Surrender. Defeat. Failure. These are the words that circulated in my head when I reluctantly agreed to a gastrostomy for my son. My son and his twin sister were born 16 weeks early. Due to a...
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Feeding Therapy: Learning From Our Mistakes
Feeding your child can be one of the biggest, most painful struggles you’ll face after leaving the NICU. I know it has been for us. When your child doesn’t eat enough, or won’t eat at all, it can...
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Surviving Coming Home with Cords and Monitors
Okay so picture this: you are in the hospital with your baby getting ready to take him/her home. You get your little one all bundled up and in the car seat and you are on your way. Now imagine your...
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Tube feeding and traveling with a baby
Having a barfy baby in public will quickly make you understand who nearby is a parent themselves. Being parents of a child who eats by tube feeding (which aggravates reflux), we have had this...
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Making G-Tube Feeding Friendlier + Tubesie Giveaway
Before my son was born I knew nothing about feeding tubes. I naively thought they were for elderly and severely brain injured patients. Never in a million years could I have imagined sending my...
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What to Expect on Discharge Day
Remember the saying, “Expect the unexpected?” It applies here too. On NICU discharge day. Just like there are processes and procedures while your baby is in the NICU, there are processes and...
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