I am sorry to hear – is this because her eating has not yet picked up?
When you say the pump vs regular, not sure what you mean…. bear with me. There are 2 types of doing it, either bolus or continous and for each of them, you can either use a pump or use a syringe.
When we started with MAtthew, we had to start with continous feeds. Ie we started giving him some additional formula overnight and we had to start really slowly, something like 10ml per hour and so we used the pump. Slowly, we were able to increase the rate to something like 55ml per hour and then we were able to move to bolus feeds (ie something like 120ml in about 5 minutes, which is what i do overnight). BUt it took us time to get here, because feeding through the button is not the same as oral feeding and babies do not handle it as well and you have ot be careful… or at least that is most people´s experience.
Now, we do bolus feeds also during the day…. Matthew will eat orally and then i will get a syringe and finish his feeding… his stomach is slowly stretching but i think we now can do a total of 10 ounces per feeding or so.
If you tell us what she is eating, etc maybe we can suggest a starting point???
I know that Heather had to start increasing feedings a few weeks ago and nobody had told her about going slowly about it… and Bryce was not doing well… i know that she was going to start increasing very slowly and maybe she can tell us how it went?
Hope this helps… if you tell us a bit more about schedules etc… maybe we can help more. Also what is she eating orally and cal per ounce? If your baby is able to tolerate a higher cal per ounce formula, it is easier with the tubes because you do not need as much volume
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