Continuous feeding. With this tube feeding option, the tube is inserted for longer, and food enters a little at a time. Your baby’s tube is hooked up to a machine that drips the food into the tube.

It’s sometimes used for continuous feeding, which runs for 24 hours a day. Feeding Tube Placement Surgery to insert a feeding tube is generally fairly simple.

A variety of easy-to-use bedside methods can be used with a moderate degree of confidence to distinguish between gastric and small-bowel tube placement during continuous feedings.