Baby Steps

After we discovered Audrey was aspirating food into her lungs the doctors immediately stopped letting her take a bottle.  Yeah, taking a baby's bottle away - that's a fun experience.  Since she wasn't really interested in it because of all that she was going through it wasn't as bad as it could of been I guess.  Since Audrey couldn't have her G-tube (feeding tube in the belly) placed until the weekend was over the doctors put a NG tube (feeding tube through the nose) in until her G-tube could be placed.  In retro spec, this actually helped me get used to the whole idea of getting a G-tube. 

It wasn't easy for the doctors to get that tube up her nose and down her throat because of the swelling in her tongue.  They actually had to do it twice.  Not fun.  Poor girl.  This actually wasn't her first time with a NG-tube; she had one when she was in the NICU as a newborn for 1 day.

Here you can see two things:  One - Audrey's not being silly - that was the actual size of her tongue. Two - her NG-tube. They placed socks on her hands so she wouldn't pull it out. She was still able to eat thickened food by mouth during this time.