Pagan parenting, special needs style - one medically complex preschooler, one medically fragile toddler, lots of chaos.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Tube Feeding Attitudes
Today's topic: How has your attitude/family/friends' attitudes changed towards tube feeding? What has awareness of the positive benefits done to change perceptions?
I'm not sure that many of our friends or family have changed their minds. A few see it as a necessary evil, a few think it's too scary to think about, and a few just hope that ignoring it will make it go away.
It's kind of hard to argue with results though, and Acorn is proof that tube feeding can work wonders - he was below 3% for size when he was born, and he's now around 40% for actual age, and above 50% for adjusted age.
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It's wonderful what it has done for Acorn. It of course is nothing anyone really wants to voluntarily go through but it's great is available when needed.
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