Deborah - when my husband was having the most trouble with the combined chemo/radiation (about the last 3 weeks and first 2 weeks post treatment) the nightly feeding by pump was very helpful. It allowed him to keep food down when the feeding by gravity bags began to be too fast and made him sick to his stomach.

As others have said, it is important to have him sitting partially upright, although in my husband's case he was doing that before the nightly feedings anyway because there was too much choking on the thick mucous if he was lying down.

The pump makes some soft noise that I was able to block out by wearing ear plugs and I slept better overall because I wasn't so worried about him not getting enough nutrition.

Mary