However, while your baby has difficulty breathing, he or she does not have energy to spare for eating from a bottle. For infants with moderate to severe breathing problems, we will pass a soft plastic feeding tube into your baby's stomach for good nutrition, weight gain, and conservation of energy. When your baby is gaining weight, and when he or she can tolerate having the bottle in the mouth, we will begin a plan of feeding that is very conservative and based on the tolerance of the baby. The feeding tube will give us the opportunity to help your baby grow while allowing adequate rest. As the baby's strength increases and obstruction problems decrease, we will give your baby more and more bottle feedings until the tube is no longer needed.
Some infants have only mild breathing problems while eating.
However, while your baby has difficulty breathing, he or she does not have energy to spare for eating from a bottle. For infants with moderate to severe breathing problems, we will pass a soft plastic feeding tube into your baby's stomach for good nutrition, weight gain, and conservation of energy. When your baby is gaining weight, and when he or she can tolerate having the bottle in the mouth, we will begin a plan of feeding that is very conservative and based on the tolerance of the baby. The feeding tube will give us the opportunity to help your baby grow while allowing adequate rest. The infants must have their breathing monitored until obstructions are no longer as frequent or severe as in the immediate newborn period.