Pediatric G-Tube Feeding
A G-Tube Formula Recipe that Warms Your Heart: Pumpkin Pie
There is indeed a whirlwind of emotions when it comes to feeding your baby through a tube. Some days you won’t even mind it, it’ll be systematic, and other days it hits you like a brick and it’s all you can think about. Those are the days I need recipes like this – Paigey’s Pumpkin […]
Food is Medicine: A Superfood Rich Recipe for your G-Tube Fed Child
Don’t forget about Superfoods Sometimes when you become a special needs parent, food in a sense goes “out the window”. Many times in our lives, we forget the nutritional benefit of a wide variety of foods. We forget that food is indeed part of our medicine. For g-tube babies, I’ve found this can be even […]
Chicken Noodle Soup for a Tube
Let’s Be Real Every time I go to post a recipe on my blog, I hesitate since I don’t have professional pictures or fancy ways to explain certain ingredients. Yet, that is exactly the point I’m trying to make – you don’t have to be “cool” or monetarily driven to be successful in simple ways […]
Special Needs Parents and their Power of Empathy
It shocks me to this day how much I understand the concept of empathy more now than I ever have. There’s a very few number of people who have gone through something EXACTLY like you, so empathy is hard to find. Even if you have the same experience, it is all very different. However, as […]
A Poem of Acceptance
I watched the video I saw who you used to be Your little dimples, Your little squeaks Your eyes they wondered – Your little hands grasped mine A while ago it kept me alive I laid in bed, Replaying again and again Praying you’d keep breathing Praying I’d have you back again I watched it […]