Granton's Blog

After a days diet of yobaby and enfalyte Granton did manage to keep the food in his stomach and gain a little weight. We are still going to try again to start the ng feeds since this method is more ideal for gaining weight faster. I pray that Granton will be able to tolerate the continuous feeds and not throw them up. The nurse will help us by going really slow on the volume working up to 35ml with a more dense higher calorie formula. I believe that he will hold them down if we go gradually and slowly as we did over the weekend and not fill him up too fast. If not, we may have to try the nj tube that goes to the intestine instead of the stomach. If that doesn't work we can try a g-tube. The g-tube is less infection risk because it is directly connected to the gut and not the blood stream. So, that is good to know. We will try to avoid giving him nutrients and calories through the iv since it can't be depended upon to work for very long or trusted to keep Granton from getting a bacteria infection. However, the nutritionist are very concerned that they will have to resort to this if Granton keeps losing weight. He is not near to the level he should be because of the big virus set-back. Also, we know that the antibiotic bactrum might be causing the nausea and this afternoon we found out that he only has to receive this med 5x per week instead of 7 which might help some. This is what we are learning and praying for--mainly no puking so that we can move on to gaining weight. Hope you are all doing well. We appreciate everything.

Jenni