G-tube and PJ's

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BabyBeauty

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THANK YOU!! I love the iron on idea! I am going to look at a fabric store to see if I can do it myself, but if not I am going to buy the ones online!

Thanks!! This is why I love this website!
 
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BabyBeauty

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THANK YOU!! I love the iron on idea! I am going to look at a fabric store to see if I can do it myself, but if not I am going to buy the ones online!

Thanks!! This is why I love this website!
 
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BabyBeauty

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THANK YOU!! I love the iron on idea! I am going to look at a fabric store to see if I can do it myself, but if not I am going to buy the ones online!

Thanks!! This is why I love this website!
 
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BabyBeauty

New member
THANK YOU!! I love the iron on idea! I am going to look at a fabric store to see if I can do it myself, but if not I am going to buy the ones online!

Thanks!! This is why I love this website!
 
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BabyBeauty

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THANK YOU!! I love the iron on idea! I am going to look at a fabric store to see if I can do it myself, but if not I am going to buy the ones online!
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<br />Thanks!! This is why I love this website!
 
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ToriMom

Guest
Great ideas with the patches! Our daughter got her tube when she was twenty months old. What I did (and still do YEARS later)is I pin a safety pin to her PJs at the extension part. The reason I have always done this is so that there is slack in the line leading to her G-tube site. This way as she moves around in bed she is tugging at the pin and not at her G-tube site. This may sound confusing, but when she first got the tube she had that big PEG port, and it would pull on the site as it hung down when she toddled around...so I started to wrap a bit of velcro around the end and created a "U" to slack the line so it wouldn't hang so much. I would pin it to her clothes or velcro it to her clothes. After she had healed up it wasn't such an issue, but then I kept doing this safety slack at night because one time as I put her over the edge of the rail into her crib I had the tubing pinched to the crib rail and BLOOP I pulled it right out of her tummy. With the safety pin in place I would have only pulled on the pin/shirt/velcro...get it?
Anyway, just a tip from my experience.
 
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ToriMom

Guest
Great ideas with the patches! Our daughter got her tube when she was twenty months old. What I did (and still do YEARS later)is I pin a safety pin to her PJs at the extension part. The reason I have always done this is so that there is slack in the line leading to her G-tube site. This way as she moves around in bed she is tugging at the pin and not at her G-tube site. This may sound confusing, but when she first got the tube she had that big PEG port, and it would pull on the site as it hung down when she toddled around...so I started to wrap a bit of velcro around the end and created a "U" to slack the line so it wouldn't hang so much. I would pin it to her clothes or velcro it to her clothes. After she had healed up it wasn't such an issue, but then I kept doing this safety slack at night because one time as I put her over the edge of the rail into her crib I had the tubing pinched to the crib rail and BLOOP I pulled it right out of her tummy. With the safety pin in place I would have only pulled on the pin/shirt/velcro...get it?
Anyway, just a tip from my experience.
 
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ToriMom

Guest
Great ideas with the patches! Our daughter got her tube when she was twenty months old. What I did (and still do YEARS later)is I pin a safety pin to her PJs at the extension part. The reason I have always done this is so that there is slack in the line leading to her G-tube site. This way as she moves around in bed she is tugging at the pin and not at her G-tube site. This may sound confusing, but when she first got the tube she had that big PEG port, and it would pull on the site as it hung down when she toddled around...so I started to wrap a bit of velcro around the end and created a "U" to slack the line so it wouldn't hang so much. I would pin it to her clothes or velcro it to her clothes. After she had healed up it wasn't such an issue, but then I kept doing this safety slack at night because one time as I put her over the edge of the rail into her crib I had the tubing pinched to the crib rail and BLOOP I pulled it right out of her tummy. With the safety pin in place I would have only pulled on the pin/shirt/velcro...get it?
Anyway, just a tip from my experience.
 
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ToriMom

Guest
Great ideas with the patches! Our daughter got her tube when she was twenty months old. What I did (and still do YEARS later)is I pin a safety pin to her PJs at the extension part. The reason I have always done this is so that there is slack in the line leading to her G-tube site. This way as she moves around in bed she is tugging at the pin and not at her G-tube site. This may sound confusing, but when she first got the tube she had that big PEG port, and it would pull on the site as it hung down when she toddled around...so I started to wrap a bit of velcro around the end and created a "U" to slack the line so it wouldn't hang so much. I would pin it to her clothes or velcro it to her clothes. After she had healed up it wasn't such an issue, but then I kept doing this safety slack at night because one time as I put her over the edge of the rail into her crib I had the tubing pinched to the crib rail and BLOOP I pulled it right out of her tummy. With the safety pin in place I would have only pulled on the pin/shirt/velcro...get it?
Anyway, just a tip from my experience.
 
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ToriMom

Guest
Great ideas with the patches! Our daughter got her tube when she was twenty months old. What I did (and still do YEARS later)is I pin a safety pin to her PJs at the extension part. The reason I have always done this is so that there is slack in the line leading to her G-tube site. This way as she moves around in bed she is tugging at the pin and not at her G-tube site. This may sound confusing, but when she first got the tube she had that big PEG port, and it would pull on the site as it hung down when she toddled around...so I started to wrap a bit of velcro around the end and created a "U" to slack the line so it wouldn't hang so much. I would pin it to her clothes or velcro it to her clothes. After she had healed up it wasn't such an issue, but then I kept doing this safety slack at night because one time as I put her over the edge of the rail into her crib I had the tubing pinched to the crib rail and BLOOP I pulled it right out of her tummy. With the safety pin in place I would have only pulled on the pin/shirt/velcro...get it?
<br />Anyway, just a tip from my experience.
 
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izemmom

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Torismom...

THANK YOU!! I am soooo releived to know that I am not the only mom who pulled the tube out by getting it caught over the crib rail!!! I had exactly the experience. Luckily, Emily was already asleep and slept right through it, re-insertion and all! I, of course, panicked a little bit. "Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! What do I do now???" But a cool headed (for once) husband came to my (and Emily's) rescue.

I was HORRIFIED when I did it, and of course, my husband works it into conversation about every other month or so, just so I don't forget it! As if I don't have enough mommy-guilt already!
 
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izemmom

New member
Torismom...

THANK YOU!! I am soooo releived to know that I am not the only mom who pulled the tube out by getting it caught over the crib rail!!! I had exactly the experience. Luckily, Emily was already asleep and slept right through it, re-insertion and all! I, of course, panicked a little bit. "Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! What do I do now???" But a cool headed (for once) husband came to my (and Emily's) rescue.

I was HORRIFIED when I did it, and of course, my husband works it into conversation about every other month or so, just so I don't forget it! As if I don't have enough mommy-guilt already!
 
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izemmom

New member
Torismom...

THANK YOU!! I am soooo releived to know that I am not the only mom who pulled the tube out by getting it caught over the crib rail!!! I had exactly the experience. Luckily, Emily was already asleep and slept right through it, re-insertion and all! I, of course, panicked a little bit. "Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! What do I do now???" But a cool headed (for once) husband came to my (and Emily's) rescue.

I was HORRIFIED when I did it, and of course, my husband works it into conversation about every other month or so, just so I don't forget it! As if I don't have enough mommy-guilt already!
 
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izemmom

New member
Torismom...

THANK YOU!! I am soooo releived to know that I am not the only mom who pulled the tube out by getting it caught over the crib rail!!! I had exactly the experience. Luckily, Emily was already asleep and slept right through it, re-insertion and all! I, of course, panicked a little bit. "Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! What do I do now???" But a cool headed (for once) husband came to my (and Emily's) rescue.

I was HORRIFIED when I did it, and of course, my husband works it into conversation about every other month or so, just so I don't forget it! As if I don't have enough mommy-guilt already!
 
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izemmom

New member
Torismom...
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<br />THANK YOU!! I am soooo releived to know that I am not the only mom who pulled the tube out by getting it caught over the crib rail!!! I had exactly the experience. Luckily, Emily was already asleep and slept right through it, re-insertion and all! I, of course, panicked a little bit. "Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! What do I do now???" But a cool headed (for once) husband came to my (and Emily's) rescue.
<br />
<br />I was HORRIFIED when I did it, and of course, my husband works it into conversation about every other month or so, just so I don't forget it! As if I don't have enough mommy-guilt already!
 
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