We met with The Littlest Apple’s GI specialist again this week.<\/p>\n
At 35 months old, The Littlest Apple is 24 pounds, 34″ tall.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s still not on the charts yet for weight (despite what the pediatrician told us incorrectly last week), but making progress especially given all of the hurdles we’ve faced with the NG tube<\/a>.<\/p>\n The doctor wants to increase The Littlest Apple’s night feeds just a little, and we’re keeping him on the same formula, despite the increase in energy (which seems to just be from the calorie increase).\u00c2\u00a0 His energy level has to max out eventually<\/em>, right?\u00c2\u00a0 I’m hoping we’ve reached that point, because, wow, some days really wear me out<\/a>.<\/p>\n The doctor asked us whether we wanted to switch to a G-tube<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Now that we know this method of feeding works, we have that option.\u00c2\u00a0 The doctor can’t tell us with certainty how much longer we’ll be using tube feeds, but it will be at least<\/em> another 3 months.\u00c2\u00a0 Once The Littlest Apple reaches the desired weight\/BMI, he’ll need to prove that he can eat enough orally to sustain his weight before we are completely done with the tube.\u00c2\u00a0 It could take 6 months.\u00c2\u00a0 It could take a year.\u00c2\u00a0 It could take much longer, if his gastroparesis<\/a> continues to be a problem.\u00c2\u00a0 So it is completely up to us whether we want to make a switch, and we plan to make a decision in the next week.\u00c2\u00a0 If we’re going to switch to a G-tube, we’d like to get it done before The Littlest Apple starts preschool in September.<\/p>\n Here are some factors we’re weighing…<\/p>\n Reasons to use G-tube:<\/p>\n Reasons to keep using NG tube:<\/p>\n This is SUCH a hard decision to make, especially not knowing how much longer we’ll need it.\u00c2\u00a0 If we could say with certainty we would only need tube feeds for another 3 months, I’d stick with the NG tube.\u00c2\u00a0 If we knew for sure it would be a year or more, I’d definitely want to switch to G-tube.\u00c2\u00a0 Anything in between is a gray area for me, but I’m leaning strongly toward making the switch.<\/p>\n What would YOU do?\u00c2\u00a0 I’d love to hear some opinions!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n We met with The Littlest Apple’s GI specialist again this week. At 35 months old, The Littlest Apple is 24 pounds, 34″ tall.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s still not on the charts yet for weight (despite what the pediatrician told us incorrectly last week), but making progress especially given all of the hurdles we’ve faced with the NG […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,67,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gastroparesis","category-medical","category-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3696"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3705,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions\/3705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepickyapple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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