starting to eat

Kyler failed his swallow study again, but I went and talked to my pediatrician and decided to start feeding kyler an ounce of formula mixed with rice cereal every couple of hours. He usually did fine on his test for about an ounce and so we think it will help him to actually eat through his mouth since he hasn't had any food orally for 2 months now. He wants to see us back in two weeks and he said we will probably just take his tube out after that if he seems to tolerate the feeds well, which so far he has so we I was happy about that. He told me that most babies do aspirate a little into their lungs when they eat so since he wasn't failing it horribly he made the decision to start with the oral feedings, which is how i felt too.