Psychological tube dependency – what is it?
Tube dependency occurs in children who received a temporary feeding tube but stay tube fed after stabilization of the underlying medical condition because they cannot transition (back) to oral feeding.
Fulfilling a heart’s desire – learning to eat for children with congenital heart defects
Today, survival is not uncommon for children under 500 grams and bordering the 23 and 24 weeks of gestation. What are the needs of premature children?
A Delicate Being: Considering the Needs of Premature Children
Today, survival is not uncommon for children under 500 grams and bordering the 23 and 24 weeks of gestation. What are the needs of premature children?
The difference between tube weaning and feeding therapy
What is the difference between tube weaning and feeding therapy? Professor Scheer explains what distinguish NoTube from other concepts.
Hunger vs. starving during tube weaning
The most frequently discussed aspect of tube weaning is the reduction of tube feeding. Should the amount of nutrition be reduced and, if so, how much and how fast? Raging myths abound around hunger vs. starving during tube weaning. Here is some information from our experts perspective.
How tube weaning impacted my child’s development
From a developmental perspective, eating is an integral part of sensory and motor development. Children that are tube fed and do not eat orally miss out on some opportunities to work on certain skills while eating, potentially delaying their motor, socio-emotional and language development.
Feeding Tubes and Dental Hygiene
An expert answers the most important questions about dental hygiene by tube fed children.
Eating School – An Outsider’s Perspective
NoTube can create an environment in which children, who literally cannot eat to save their lives, will learn to do that in the next 14 days.
Weaned from the tube after oesophagal atresia: the story of Srna
A heroine’s story that started in Belgrade in 2012, when an oesophageal atresia was diagnosed at Srna’s birth.
Dinner is served: blended food versus tube formula
History, advantages and disadvantages of blended food and tube formula.