One of the first babies that I fed was a preemie
baby on a feeding tube.
Not exact matches
Once the
feeding tube was off
on day 7th,
baby took breast like a pro and
on we continue now at 13 months until, well?
This was early
on, so my husband would I would pump and he would take my pumped breast milk and finger
tube feed it to the
baby that wasn't latching and then I would nurse the other one while he was doing that and then try to bring the
baby who finger
tube feeds to my breast as well even though he wasn't really latching.
Some
babies are able to breastfeed directly
on the mother's breast, while others have to be
fed via bottle or
tube.
Those NICU nurses were
on a very intense schedule and if you missed your
baby's
feeding every three hours, even if that just meant missing the big push of formula from a syringe into his
feeding tube, you missed it.
Babies are typically
fed through a
tube while their digestive tract is maturing, while they are working
on full volume
feeds, or while practicing taking milk through a nipple.
The hospital staff will advise you
on how and where to store your breastmilk and when they will administer it to your
baby through the
feeding tube.
The lactation aid is basically a
feeding tube that you attach to a bottle and to your nipple so that when your
baby latches
on and attempts to nurse, he is able to get a supplement from the bottle.
This is why if, within a few hours,
baby is vomiting, an intravenous
tube will be inserted and
baby will be
fed formula to make sure they can start
on the process of growing and keeping down the nourishment.
Commercial products now come in pouches,
tubes and tubs that make it easy to store and transport your
baby's snacks and makes
feeding on the go much easier.
Some
babies can
feed on regular breast milk or formula milk; however, due to poor suckling,
feeding is usually accomplished by naso - gastric
tube or intravenous
feeding.
«It could help prepare the
babies for the transition from
tube -
feeding to direct sucking
on the nipple of a mother or bottle,» the researcher added.
Two vets, two conflicting stories.PLEASE get a second opinion.I knew how to
tube feed baby birds, but they would pump the
tube down, where sick puppies you had to force it down.Well I will be happy to tell you I only had to do this three times.Not three
feedings but three times.I told my husband if he made it through the week end he would have a chance and I believed he would make it.This was
on Friday OCTOBER 17,2008.