Harry had a ngt and was using a haberman bottle. After about six months, Harry's ngt came out one day and that was it, no more ngt! The cleft oordinator at the RCH said he didn't need to have it replaced because he could drink a full bottle and was eating s ome solids. Whilst Harry was in hospital, a lot of the midwives didn't know how to actually use his bottle. We had to show some of them how to feed them. He would also not drink as much for them as he did for us. We think this might have been because we actually perserved with his feeding and not take the easy way out and put all of his feeds through his ngt. One of the hardes parts with his feeding for us was, our own families were too scared to feed him "incase they did it wrong". It also upset as as, it would have been lovely for the grandparents to give Harry a bottle as tey were able to when our oldest son was born. it would have been a lovely thing for our parents to do.
