Wednesday 9th April

Back home from our holidays on Monday after having a real relaxing break!Kaden loved the heat and seemed to cope really well.The weather since we got home has been raining,sleet and really depressing.Last night Kaden was unsettled during the night and woke up twice,so at 3.30a.m i decided to take him in to our bed.Around 6.15a.m kadens machine bleeped to go off so i switched it off with the idea of feeding him again around 1 1/2hours later.We fell back asleep and woke around 8.30a.m and i went to change his nappy to find his gastrostomy tube had came out!I couldn't believe it.And it looked to me as if it had closed up!!With that the hospital had called to confirm i was going up for them to have a look at his granulation tissue - and all i could do was cry to our nurse about his tube coming out and looking as if it had closed up.She told me to wrap him up and head for the hospital.I got Kaden ready and headed off to the hospital dreading the outcome(i was terrified he'd have to get an anesthetic to get another one put in).When i got to the hospital i headed for the surgical ward where the nurse was waiting for us and she took us to the treatment room.The plan was to try to put another tube back in without having to go to theatre.Luckily the nurse managed 1st time with a smaller tube than he'd had in but it was really just to keep the hole open.Once the tube was in she said she was going to measure Kaden for a button.She removed the tube and inserted a botton to measure the size Kaden needed and replaced Kadens gastrostomy with a button.(All babies are different as far as the amount of fat they have so this depends on the size of button needed.)Kaden also has alot of granulation tissue which needs to be burnt off-so today the doctor showed me how to do it and gave me some silver nitrate sticks home to use on it every day for a week,then next Wednesday we have to go back and see how things are.We also have the low birthweight clinic tommorrow at the hospital so it will be interesting to see how heavy Kaden is these days!?Here's kaden having a snooze at lunchtime today after all the commotion.