Sew Buttons, They Don't Stick

That's another thing my grandfather used to tell me if I ever asked "So?" in response to something that was said by another person.

Miss Molly just returned from visiting the surgeon who put in her g tube. Everything looked good and she had healed nicely, so they went ahead and outfitted her with the "button."

This highly anticipated piece of equipment has a balloon that goes into her abdomen through the hole made during the g tube surgery, and is filled with water. The filling of the balloon prohibits it from being pulled out. If we ever need to remove the button, we use a syringe and remove the water from the balloon and pop it out. When the button is in place it basically lies flush against her skin so there is nothing to catch on car seats, or clothes, or little fingers.

When it's time to eat we connect the extension tube to the button at one end, and the feeding bag at the other. She then eats exactly the same way she has been eating since the g tube surgery, and effectively the same way she has been eating since the ng tube was first put in last October.

Molly was an absolutely perfect baby during the exam and procedure. She was completely still and didn't make a sound (other than occasionally talking a little).

Tomorrow Molly is scheduled to meet her new OT, and we bought a little Tummy Time mat in anticipation of her homework. It was also sort of a reward for being such a good baby for the doctors.