Christopher’s Journey.

Christopher came off the continuous feeds today and back onto Bolus Feeds during the day of 35mls/3hrly. He had his first one at 1pm and seemed to be doing quite well, but had a small spill at about 2.30pm. He got through 25mls of his 3 o’clock feed and it all came up again (faster than it went down mind you!). So the poor little mite obviously wasn’t ready for bigger volume feeds after a week in PICU (on only fluid, before graduating to the continuous feeds). So we are back on continuous feeds of 18mls/hr, with the option of moving him back to the Bolus Feeds again at a later date. Obviously having a vomit isn’t a real problem for most kids, but with Christopher he has a very clever trick of aspirating, so it is really not worth the risk at the mo, especially seeing as we just got him back from PICU!