Jereth's feeding tube has become a fun battle of wills - he pulls it out on a regular basis and really doesn't enjoy having it put back in - but then I can't think of anyone who would like to have a tube stuck up their nose and fed down their throat and into their stomach.
Monday afternoon he pulled it out for the umteenth time while Mom and Dad were out running errands and he was home with Spencer and the other children. Instead of putting it right back in I gave him a bottle (he's been taking an ounce or two at a time in the mornings so I thought we'd give it a try in the afternoon - I figured if he would take as much by mouth as he would have received through the feeding tube he would be fine).
Well, he took two ounces very well and continued taking a bottle for the rest of the evening and even had almost four ounces before going to bed - even though he spit up quite a bit.
So I left the tube out overnight just to see how he would do in the morning. Yesterday morning he downed a four-ounce bottle in about fifteen minutes. That felt like a great start, so we left the tube out and kept giving him a bottle throughout the day.
By the end of the day he had taken almost as much as he would normally get through the feeding tube. I'm going to call his doctor today and see if we can continue without the feeding tube as long as he continues to take a bottle well.
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