I'd say your doing a great job...we didn't get to stage 2s until we were 18 months old with both of our guys...I ended up making our own baby foods so I could slowly increase the textures in teeny weeny tiny baby steps, so that we wouldn't gag.  It sounds like your pediatrician is really being supportive which is awesome.

You may find Suzanne Morris' website http://www.new-vis.com/ helpful in your journey.  I didn't find her information until my guys were a couple of years old..but she really made feeding "make sense" and more understandable...I found her first through a book or magazine article..because back then we didn't even have internet access...oh what I would have given for the world of the internet.  Anyway, good luck, and just know whatever decision you make it will be the right one for the time and place you are on your journey.  But of course, as parents we will always second guess ourselves..but that is true for your typical kids as well as those with disabilities.

Cheryl




-----Original Message-----
>From: Jennifer Gunter <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Jun 6, 2010 10:18 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: To place a feeding tube or not
>
>I think I am going to wait the week do a few more sessions with the speec=
>h therapist and see what she thinks as well. My issues with the feeding t=
>ube is, that him having the feeding tube is NOT going to stop him from as=
>piration unless we stop feeding him liquids orally. I was told by the GI =
>to continue to feed him by mouth and only use the g-tube to finish his fe=
>eds when he does not or when he starts to gag. He will eat a 9oz bottle s=
>ome feeds without an issue or cough and next feed gag the entire time and=
> eat 2oz. He eats stage 2 baby food in a feeder bottle for cereal PERFECT=
>. I have experimented on my own with thickened liquids with the pedestria=
>ns approval and found that between nectar and honey thick liquid he does =
>relatively well in the Avent bottle for thicker liquid. Other times he ha=
>tes those nipples and only takes a standard ventaire bottle. He makes me =
>want to pull my hair out!!! Thanks for all the advice
>
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