From my personal experience with my own son (Brandon, CHARGE syndrome),  oral 
aversion seems to increase after a surgery. He just had his testes  descended 
yesterday, and between the sore throat from the ventilator, oxygen  masks, 
and all the medicine getting put in his mouth, he is also very skittish.  I'm 
not sure what other parts of the sequence this baby has, but if she has any  
sensory issues, oral defensiveness can certainly be part of it. Hopefully, the  
good suggestions about nursing will help this baby get more comfortable!  
 
 Challenging feeding may be a part of the surgery picture for this  family, 
it certainly has been for us! We have found that once we are home, and  he is 
totally recovered from anesthesia that Brandon is mostly back to normal.  With 
his heart issues and low tone, it sometimes takes him several days to get  
back to normal nursing, and I just have to go back to the basics (skin to skin,  
swaddling, etc). In the meantime, I just try not to panic!
 
Shannon Thomas
LLL Leader

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