Tube Feeding Guidance & Support | Talking Tube Feeding

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Illustration of Tube Fed Ted, a plush bear character

I’m a curious, adventure-loving bear who happens to be tube fed too. I know that tube feeding can sometimes feel a little different, especially when you’re just starting out. There can be lots of new things to learn, questions to ask and emotions along the way. That’s why I’m here.

Family packing travel essentials for a trip with blended tube feeding

New Lifestyle

Planning a trip with blended tube feeding?

A little preparation can make a big difference. PINNT’s new travel guide brings together practical advice, top tips and essential checklists to help make travelling with blended food easier and less stressful.

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Guidance

A Caregiver’s Guide to Tube Feeding

Understanding tube feeding and how to support a child

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Guidance

Navigating tube feeding together: Let’s talk about navigating tube feeding and family life

Balancing family life while managing tube feeding comes with its unique challenges and triumphs.

Mother and daughter sitting together on a beach, daughter in a wheelchair

Guidance

Real foods and blended diets: Let’s talk about the benefits of including real food in tube fed diets

Talking Tube Feeding connects with a Specialist Home Enteral Tube Feeding dietitian to address common inquiries about blended diets. Additionally, we have featured videos from a tube feeding parent demonstrating how she prepares blended meals for her daughter.

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Guidance

Teen Tube Feeding – hosted by Annina Whipp, Registered Dietitian

Recording from our Talking Tube Feeding Community event 2022

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Guidance

Considerations for a blended diet during a cost of living crisis

Recording from our Talking Tube Feeding Community Event 2022

Portrait of a smiling woman with glasses, illustrated with a rainbow, blender icon and Talking Tube Feeding speech bubble graphic

Guidance

Practical tips for family days out on a blended diet

Recording from our Talking Tube Feeding Community Event 2022

Boy sitting next to his mother in a bright room with feeding equipment behind them

Guidance

Ask a Dietitian: Annina Whipp

Dietitian Annina answers your burning questions on tube feeding

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Guidance

So, You’re Thinking About A Blended Diet

10 things you need to know about blended diets from registered dietitians.

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Guidance

Transitioning to Adult Care

What to expect and top tips for a seamless switch

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Guidance

Symptom Diaries

How to get the most from your dietitian appointments

Smiling boy in a supportive chair looking at the camera

Guidance

Equipment for Tube Feeding Families

A list of important and useful equipment to support your tube feeding journey

Dietitian talking with a girl and her mother during an appointment

Guidance

Dietitian Appointments

How to get the most from your dietitian appointments

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Support

Tube Feeding
Glossary

Definitions for technical tube feeding terms…

Illustrated banner for Feeding Tube Awareness Week, 4th–10th February, showing two illustrated children embracing

Support

Feeding Tube Awareness Week 2024

It’s Feeding Tube Awareness Week (5–11th February 2024) – a moment that’s marked internationally every year and designed to encourage people to talk about tube feeding.