KST A to Z
Feeding tube (2-month-old)
Davis Lindsay, DC
Terrace, British Columbia, Canada
Parents asked me to go to the hospital for their 2-month-old baby. She wouldn't take bottle or breast so they had a feeding tube in her. About 15 minutes after adjustments, mother breast fed her the rest of the day and all the next day.
Mom wanted the nurses to remove the feeding tube, but they wouldn't because they thought she might stop feeding.
By the 3rd day the baby stopped feeding again. Mom figured it was the tube, but they sent Mom and baby to a bigger children's hospital in another city.
Mom woke up the next morning and there was her baby holding the nasogastric tube in her hand! She had pulled it out during the night. Mom breast fed her just fine and the next day they were on a plane home.
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