Parents struggle with toddlers who won't eat -- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1357108/posts
Without adequate nutrition in the first two years of life, brain development lags, Arvedson said. To prevent this, kids with feeding problems are fed through tubes into their stomachs. Tube feeding keeps them alive, but it falls short in so many ways. . . .Anyways, happy Tuesday to everyone. The antibiotics I started yesterday are beginning to help. fv, are we passing something around via computer that we're getting sick? You know, some computer virus . . .? I'd read something choc rose said about being sick, and the next day, WHAM! ...weeks of this.The road to eating is a long one. Some children, especially those with neurological problems, will probably never eat by mouth. And even those with simpler problems can be remarkably resistant. There are 8 and 9 year olds still dependent on tube feeding despite an ability to do otherwise. . . .
Step by step, those issues are dealt with. Many babies, including Kendall, are fed all night through a feeding tube so they are never hungry. Eventually, Kendall will have to be weaned from the tube, a difficult process for the parents. Although the child still receives adequate nutrition, she gets very hungry.
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Prayers for Terri
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/dl20050315.shtml
Absent a further court order, Terri Schiavo's feeding tube will be removed on Friday, and she will starve -- painfully, many say -- to death. Doesn't it strike you as eerie that the court relied on the testimony of an "estranged" husband in making its decision?
Doesn't it strike you as horrifying that Terri may very well want to live but they are going to cause her to die, not by removing a respirator, but a feeding tube?
Do you really believe that Terri's husband, Michael, who is living with another woman with whom he sired two children, is refusing to relinquish guardianship of Terri to her parents because he is irreversibly committed to carrying out Terri's wishes?
Do you believe that disabled, but conscious and self-breathing people who can't physically feed themselves or verbally express their desire to live, but who have left no written legal directions as to their destiny in such circumstances, should be starved to death?
FV SAYS: This is only an excerpt. For entire column, pls click on the link. THANKS, DAVID LIMBAUGH, BROTHER OF RUSH.