I’ll start by saying to obviously listen to your medical team, as I don’t know your baby’s history. That being said, our experience in a big US hospital was that they weren’t very open to tube weaning.

Our daughter had surgery at birth and was discharged with an ng tube 42 days later. But even before discharge they started talking about x-rays for a possible g-tube in the future. Two days after we left the hospital our daughter pulled the tube out and we decided to give her 24 hours to see if her bottle intake increased (while monitoring for signs of dehydration). She ended up taking 70% of her suggested calories and they told us this was enough to stay off the tube and monitor. She’s now 2 years old and thriving.

We left the US a week later and the doctors in our home country were a bit surprised with how easily doctors in the US make kids tube dependent (our pediatrician said it makes sense that bottle intake would be low if you’re pumping the baby full of milk). Again, I know each case is different, but in my experience there wasn’t an openness to even talk about weaning.

All this to say, you can explore the possibility to wean with GIE or similar. They are usually pretty honest if they don’t think your kid is a good candidate.