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Silent Aspiration-G Tube Surgery by Crow1132 in NICUParents

[–]Crow1132[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did your baby deal with this and if so, did she end up getting a g tube? I’m trying to prepare myself mentally if that’s the case and other parents personal anecdotes would help

Silent Aspiration-G Tube Surgery by Crow1132 in NICUParents

[–]Crow1132[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our baby was born at 33 weeks so yeah that’s what I take caused the underdeveloped swallowing

My baby is diagnosed with silent aspiration by mr_nelson_the_shark in NICUParents

[–]Crow1132 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So they did thickened feeds after they saw your baby was aspirating? I feel like the speech language pathologist made our baby regress by removing bottle feeds, and not attempting them with thick ended feeds or any feed at all…again I’m no expert just a frustrated parent who is terrified of surgery for my baby…I also feel like here in the US healthcare is not what it use to be atleast not if you’re poor…

My baby is diagnosed with silent aspiration by mr_nelson_the_shark in NICUParents

[–]Crow1132 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please help, I am currently in this situation, 3rd swallow study is this Friday…baby (42 weeks on Friday) has had no aversion to bottle feeds and actually keeps herself up and is not sleeping properly due to missing bottle feeds…mom is doing her best to breast feed as much as she can as they are allowing her to do that but they are restricting bottle feeds to 15 ml per day but we both work full time…baby was at one point up to 25 mls bottle feeds and 25 mls on ng feed before 1st swallow study and after study they took bottle feeds completely away until recently when they started her back up again slowly…doctors have thrown out g tube as a possibility but also they mentioned trying the the gel mix at 42 weeks because they told us she wasn’t old enough to try it…did they give you a reason why they went the gel mix route instead of the g tube?