Hi L.,
First I want to say congrats on your sweet baby girl! I know how rough it is for her to be in the hospital, and I'll be praying for you both :)
Now, on to the question at hand. My son had a g-tube placed when he was six months old. He actually lost the suck reflex, and he was exhausting himself just trying to get enough to eat. It truly saved his life... within just a few months, he had gained weight and looked and acted like a totally different baby.
Pros for us - he was eating instead of being hungry every hour, he gained the needed weight, his reflux stopped (they did a fundoplication at the same time as the g-tube), giving him medication was a piece of cake.
Cons - it takes some getting used to, it's weird to bring your baby home with an "appliance" attached to their tummy, my son had a longer recovery than average - but no complications.
Depending on how long she has it, they may put a Mic-Key G-button in instead of the long tube (my son had a mic-key). If they do the mic-key - my suggestion is to make sure you know how to put it back in/replace it. I had to do this several times, and the first time was kinda freaky! LOL - but we got so used to it later on that we didn't even take him to the Dr. to have it replaced - we just did it ourselves.
The one thing that we didn't do - and I wish we had - is that we didn't keep offering him his bottle and pacifier. He was so underweight by the time we got the tube, we focused on getting the food into him... and not so much on keeping what little suck reflex he had. But then again, he was a totally different case!!! None of the "textbook" rules applied to him :) He went to meet Jesus last year - but it had NOTHING to do with his feeding tube.
I know that your time is filled with a lot going on, but if you ever have questions, or you just want to talk to someone who has "been there" please feel free to email me. It sounds like you have a very special angel in your life now :)
A.
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