I am a single parent of nine children in which 8 are biologically mines. My youngest baby Dathan Jackson whom was born on June 7,2006 was clinically diagnosed with RTS at 6 months. I was aware of his heart condition at 17 weeks into my pregnancy. When i was 37 weeks they had to take Dathan because i had really high blood pressure, when he was born they took him right away. They took him next door to the Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia. He had his first surgery on June 9,2006 for Tricuspid Atresia, Pulmonary Atresia,"Hypo right".He's had a second at 9 months and his final stage just in October "08".He has had tube placement twice in which there still draining unbearably, he's also just had eye surgery "Strabismus" on December 22,2008.He has a multicystic and dysplastic right kidney,and of course the thing that's out doing all the rest "reflux". He's always had a problem with feedings but it's not getting better.At birth he couldn't try eating until he was out the clear of his heart condition in which that was 8 weeks . They first tried at maybe 3 weeks, he didn't do very well . So they didn't try again until that 8th week , a Doctor first recommended the G tube because i have so many other children to look after and the tube would probably keep coming out. But i declined because that wasn't a medical decision more like a parental decision. So i went home with my baby and the NG tube and like she said it came right out, two tries and i was a pro at ng placement. One week i had enough so i decided to take a syringe and fill it up with my breast milk , another week he was latching on and drinking straight from his mommy.The problem was and is he vomits just as much as he takes in, but only when he tries eating any solids. Almost 1years old his pediatrician recommended taking him off the breast because of slow wait gain, she put him on pedi-sure which made his vomiting worse i gave him baby food stage 1 and 2.He loved them he ate 5 to 6 jars at one feed.GI clinic recommended Ele-care for a possible milk allergy. Well age two came and he sees that no one besides him eats baby food so he gives up and now Ele-care is his favorite and only food.He's joins us at the table every meal time to eat with his siblings. He gets everything on his plate that everyone else has,he uses his spoon puts food in his mouth, chews it completely than spits it right out.If one little piece of food goes down his throat he chokes ,coughs and vomits it out. Dathan is a ton of fun for me and his siblings, everyday this lil man shows me more and more. Although he can't talk , he can shore enough tell you what he wants , everyone he runs across just loves him. I still have a lot to learn , but i will continue to just love him and love him while learning a great lesson in life,we were definitely joined for a reason.