[tri-med] Re: What do you do - feeding pump broke at night!

What a pain!  I don't have very good advice--just commiseration.  The 
few times that we've done gravity feed (once right after Keren got her 
g-tube, and once during the big blackout the other year) we had the 
same problems you had.  It sounds like a common problem.  I'd say your 
solution of small and frequent boulos feedings is about the best for 
meantime....  Just not all night!!!

Loren (wife to Kraig, mom to Keren, T18, two years old (9/27/02), and 
new little one due 7/13/05)
Southeast Michigan
http://webpages.eng.wayne.edu/~ad6075

On Friday, April 29, 2005, at 08:22 AM, Irene Smith wrote:

> Last night, after just putting Caroline to bed, her feeding pump 
> broke.  I
> had just gotten a new pump since our old pump was due for a 
> calibration.  We
> were so furious and unsure of what to do.  After about an hour of 
> fussing
> around, we tried a gravity feed.  However, we really had no clue HOW 
> to do a
> gravity feed.  When we woke up in the middle of the night, she had 
> barely
> gotten any food at all.  My husband bumped up the rate of drops a 
> little
> (who knows how much) and in the morning, we still had a ton of food 
> left
> over.  She ended up getting about 1/2 (maybe less) of her usual feed.
>

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