Feeding Baby
Tube Feeding Flexibility: 10 Places to Feed a Tubie Baby at Home
My baby can eat while sleeping, what’s your baby’s superpower? Tube feeding comes with many challenges. We have to have fun with it wherever there is an opportunity! Feeding your baby with a tube is likely not how you imagined your baby’s feeding journey. Me either. Due to medical challenges,…
Continuous Tube Feeding Overnight Routine for My Heart Baby
Five months into our tube feeding journey, we switched to continuous, which brought some much-needed relief overnight as we were running on empty. Continuous feeds are just as you might imagine, feeding continuously – nonstop. My daughter was in interstage awaiting her second open heart surgery. We were struggling with…
50 Feeding Tube Accessories and Extras to Support an NG Baby
What would you say if I said a feeding pump hanger is one of the most useful baby feeding accessories? That is if you have a tubie baby. Honestly, I wouldn’t have survived this journey without it. For her first 8 months, my daughter had to primarily feed through an…
Fun NG Tube Tape: Making Tube Feeding a Little Brighter
When awaiting your baby’s arrival, you might think of bows, hats, and tiny clothes to dress and accessorize your baby, not patterned medical tape. Life doesn’t always happen how we plan it though. Sometimes unexpected things happen. I did not anticipate and plan for my daughter to tube feed. You…
Navigating an NJ Tube Trial for an Interstage Heart Baby
To set the scene for you: my daughter’s second open-heart surgery was canceled, she was interstage in heart failure, losing weight and we needed to buy more time. After conferencing with several doctors, we decided to try an NJ tube. For the previous 6 months, we fed her through an…
Unboxing and Understanding Your Baby’s NG Feeding Tube Supplies
My jaw dropped the first time I saw the feeding tube supplies delivered to my front door. And then I learned it was only box 1 of 2. Tube feeding at home is a great option that allows more people to live their lives more fully and freely. For those…
From Tip to Tail: Understanding NG Feeding Tube Parts
At first, I was freaked out by the idea of having to feed my daughter through a tube. I knew nothing about tube feeding, it was all so foreign and scary. And that’s just it. It was all new and different and I was uneducated about feeding tubes. It’s easy…
NG Tube Woes: How to Clear a Clogged Feeding Tube for Your Baby
NG tubes – love ‘em or hate ‘em – sometimes they are essential for a baby. If you have an NG tubie baby, you likely have or soon will run into a clogged tube. They are thin so it is not uncommon for the tube to clog on occasion. You…
How to Tape NG Tube: The Best Way on a Baby
I first learned how to tape an NG tube from pediatric cardiac nurses while we were inpatient after our daughter’s first open-heart surgery. Due to several factors related to her Congenital Heart Defects (CHD), she was reliant on an NG (nasogastric) tube for sustenance for her first 8 months. During…
Feeding Tube Awareness Guide: What’s that thing in her nose?
Feeding Tube Awareness is low. “What’s that thing in her nose?” is something I heard countless times during my daughter’s first medically complex year. I’m passionate about raising awareness about feeding tubes. What they are, why they matter, and how to support those who need them. What do you know…
A Tubie Baby: Embarking on the baby feeding journey no one talks about
As a seasoned mom, pregnant with my third, I never expected to have a tubie baby. Honestly, I was completely unaware of tube feeding (enteral feeding). As modern moms, we’re bombarded with feeding war messaging – formula versus breastmilk, on-demand versus scheduled, nursing versus bottle feeding. Yet there’s an entirely…
10 pumping supplies I couldn’t live without as an exclusive pumper
Check out these 10 pumping supplies I couldn’t live without as an exclusive pumper. Breastfeeding is hard, pumping is hard, and exclusively pumping is the most exhaustive baby-feeding journey I’ve personally experienced. My third baby had to be transferred to a children’s hospital at 24 hours old and unexpectedly needed…
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