Theme: Feeding Tubes

I had never met anyone whose child had a G-tube. I felt so isolated but I had to decide.

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I had never met anyone whose child had a G-tube. I felt so isolated but I had to decide.

I was determined to do everything possible to save her from a Gtube. … but it got to the point where had to do something different.” A mother of an infant with serious apnea and aspiration talks about how reluctant she and her husband initially were to giving their daughter a feeding tube. She describes the process that led to their decision to get the G-tube and how they have adapted. “We got to the point where we had to do something different.”