I watched a friend bolus her son food this week, through his mini button (not mickey). She put most in, and then it was clogged a bit. She pulled back, and most of what she had just given him came back into the big syringe.
I can't do that with Peanut's button. They have always asked me about residual, I can't get any. I have been experimenting this week even, and I can't get any! I put in her 100 ml of baby food mixture. Pull back with the empty syring. Nothing comes out!! But if I just put a syringe on with no plunger to vent her, air comes up.
Is this a MicKey button thing, or just a Peanut thing? We have never ever been able to pull anything back out of her stomach with it. It seems weird!
We used to revel in the "new perfect" that was our life. Raising a beautiful girl with multiple special needs showed us that "perfect" is all in our minds. Emily's life was perfect. It was happy, it was brilliant. She was social, outgoing, silly, and ticklish. Now we are learning to get through life without our "Perfect Peanut" in it. This is most certainly NOT a new kind of perfect.
Maggie has a MicKey button and all we do is hook up the syringe to it and undo the clamp and everything that went into her stomach for the last 2 or 3 hours comes out and then we hold it up and it goes back in. So I think it might be a Peanut thing. That sounds very interesting.
ReplyDeleteThat is wierd, we have a mickey and I can get residual. Sometimes I do have to pull a little to get all the excess air and stuff, but it does come back, maybe it is a peanut thing. Silly girl.
ReplyDeletewe usually have some residual with Junior's and lots of air(he has a mini button also).
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We've never had a problem pulling up residual with Mikan's MicKey button. I'm not sure what is going on with that.
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Weird! I guess it's something to ask the GI about at our next appointment.
ReplyDeleteI am able to get residuals with Gavin's mickey, but not all of the time. Peanut must have a VERY fast metabolism or something!
ReplyDeleteMarie always has residuals in her stomach but we have incredibly slow GI. Interesting... Whenever I put the vent on and unclasp it get air followed by residual or residual itself. I agree, maybe she's got a fast metabolism?
ReplyDeleteSorry, no good advice here. Logan uses a BARD button. I don't know much about the Mic-Key.
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