The Bombacinos and their son, AJ, have learned a lot the past eight years. "We were thrown into this world of special needs feeding that we never really expected," mother Julie Bombacino says. When AJ ...
While the importance of enteral nutrition, or feeding patients through a tube, in an intensive care unit is well understood, underfeeding is still common. A practice of a certain amount of feeding per ...
Kendra Kline’s five-year-old son, John Henry, has relied on a feeding tube his entire life. “He has never eaten food by mouth,” she says. Born at just 26 weeks, he needed home oxygen supplies in ...