Not one of Sophia's better days, thats for sure. She's refused to eat by mouth all day and while we have the option of feeding her through her g-tube I still have a hard time accepting that option. I was told by so many parents who's kids have a feeding tube that this will help ease things and take stress off me when she wont eat or when she's sick. I understand how that can be true and it has come in handy at times. Still, when it's a full day of non oral eating I begin to think of the what if's. What if Sophia realizes she doesnt have to eat by mouth in order to get full? What if that causes her to stop eating by mouth all together? As I push the start/run button on her feeding pump these thoughts begin to rush through my head and my anxiety level starts to rise. At times like this I feel as if no matter what I do the outcome could cause terrible consequences. If I continue to feed her through the g-tube she could very well stop eating orally but if I dont feed her through her g-tube she'll lose weight and become dehydrated. If I have to choose the lesser of two evils, in this situation, I choose to feed her with the g-tube. Some might say I'm giving in too easily but when you have a child who's so small she's not even on the growth charts and hasnt eaten anything in over 5 hours, you gotta do what you gotta do. So for me the feeding tube has taken away one worry but only to replace it with another. C'est la vie!