[tri-med] Re: continous feeds

hi nancy.
what kind of tests were they?  i mean what were they called?  right now, 
tyler gets 90 mls in an hour and a half in the day and the rate is 27 mls 
hour for a total of 216 at night.  we are going to try stopping the 
continuous feeds at night in favour of 2 bolus feeds (midnight,6am))  we are 
willing to try anything at this point.  i am sure you know how long three 
hours is when you start at 3am to 6 am with a crying baby.

before i forget-happy thanksgiving t6o you too.  ours in canada was last 
month.  we spread the holidays out a bit more here- too much at once can be 
daunting for the average canadian.  we like to slow down, think things over 
and have a couple of beers.  thanksgiving at this time of year is too close 
to christmas. take care pam, darrell, tyler t13m, kira 2.5
elora ontario
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nancy Dixon" <sgtdixon@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <tri-med@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 10:16 AM
Subject: [tri-med] Re: continous feeds


> Hi Pam!     Happy Thanksgiving to all!      Daylin has had a very hard 
> time with his feedings along the way.   He was a very gassy baby also! 
> He still has problems crying because of gas!   We have tried several 
> things.   When he was really little the doctors thought that he was not 
> pooping enough!   And so everytime I would feed him they had me give him a 
> little rectal stim after so that he would go.   I did see an improvement! 
> Then as he got older we tried the continuous feeds.   This worked really 
> well but we were never able to get him up to 271 mls an hour ( I think 
> that is what you said!) .   For a long time he was on 43 mls an hour 
> around the clock.   And then we tried splitting it up so he could have 
> breaks in between.   We have him on 6 feeds a day set at 240 mls and one 
> at night set at 50 mls.   But he has terrible constipation now.  This 
> causes lots of crying and gagging.   So were are back to the rectal 
> stimulations!   And some prune juice!   I would play with
>  the
> rate a little.   If you have him hooked up at that rate for 8 hours he is 
> getting about 33 oz. of formula.   That is kind of a lot I would think. 
> Maybe give him more in the day time and less at night.   I give Daylin 8 
> oz at night.    Have you ever had any GI testing done on him?   We just 
> had one done on Daylin for the second time and it showed that he could 
> only hold about 4 oz in his stomach at a time.   It also showed that it 
> takes about 15 minutes to empty out of his stomach.
> Good Luck!  I hope this helps a little!
> Nancy mom to Ashlee 10, Justin 8, Cody 6, and Daylin 2 full t-13
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