Gideon James' Journey

A lot of people, who find out that my son is 100% tube-fed , usually ask me to describe how we feed James . So as not to stretch your imagination too much, here's the step-by-step procedure told in photos :) 1. Prep the G-tube button

It took us (mom and dad) a month (and thousands of pesos later) of going to and from the hospital to have James' NGT (nasogastric tube) inserted in the ER before we mustered the courage to attempt learning how to insert the scary 24 inch tube into James' nose straight to his stomach.  Notice Daddy and Mommy 's MacGyverisms : -- clipping the hard round core of a roll of electrical tape to the wall so that the 60cc syringe can be hanged instead of tying up hands that are also pouring the formula during feeding