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

Don't know about feedings like you moms do, but a battery and even a 
generator wouldn't do much good if the pump was just plain broken... what a 
scary thought to not be able to feed your child! Esp if it late at night on 
a weekend. Would kids just have to do without if there was not other type of 
feeds that worked?
 Sorry, no advice here, just questions.
 You guys are very special in my book.
 Debbie, mom to Claire (t18 2yo)
http://debbwebb.com/Claire/
 On 4/29/05, Loren Warnemuende <lorenwarn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> 
> 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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