If you are a curious reader and/or a new parent of a little person with a g-tube. You might have some image in your head of how traumatic it might be when the button pops out accidentally. We used to lose sleep over the possibility. I mean it's in his stomach, right? Surely there is pain, screaming and crying, stomach juice oozing, flailing panicking caretakers. Right? Well that's what we imagined... until it happened the first time. The first time it popped out as Jacob was being put in the crib for a nap and the tube extension got caught on the railing. He didn't even wake up. For real, slept through the whole thing.
This is a picture of the most recent incident which happened a several weeks ago. Jacob was crawling across the floor to get to a book. Grandma walked out of the room for merely seconds to get her glass of water. She came back to this scene. Yes, yes. That little thing in the foreground is supposed to be in his stomach and not on the floor.
This is exactly how much drama actually accompanies the g-tube coming out.
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So everyone can rest easy. Thought you'd like to know.
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