Securing G-tubes to Avoid Tube-Pulling Accidents

Changing the tube at home and
Dealing with granulation tissue

Here's a photo of my husband's hand holding a tiny medicine cup/dropper. It looks like an Aladdin's lamp minus the lid. He was born/raised in India and suffered from many of the same feeding issues as Nitara when he was an infant. He refused to suck on bottle or breast from 2-10 mos. old. If he was fed too fast he would vomit. He would spit it out if they poured too much in at once. So MIL and other members of the family fed him constantly drop by drop for eight months with this little medicine cup. It was their version of the continuous drip feeding method. She gave it to me last year and said she wished she had been able to put a feeding tube in him. She had saved it all these years because it was such a part of her life, and probably what saved his.

Feeding tubes are not something any of us ever imagined we would like to have for our babies and children, but consider the alternative.

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