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Whether your baby is struggling with latch, flow preference, or refusing the bottle, I provide personalized support to help families navigate the challenges of bottle feeding. With expertise in infant feeding development, such as SOFFI and Dr. Brown's IDF Scales, I assess your baby's feeding skills, address potential underlying concerns, and create a plan tailored to your family's needs. My goal is to make feeding sessions calm and enjoyable, empowering caregivers with tools and strategies for success.
Breastfeeding can be a rewarding but complex journey, and I am here to guide you every step of the way. As a Certified Lactation Counselor, I offer evidence-based support for challenges like latch difficulties, milk supply concerns, pain during nursing, or transitioning to exclusive breastfeeding. Together, we’ll work to achieve your feeding goals while ensuring you and your baby feel comfortable, confident, and supported.
Introducing solids is an exciting milestone, but it can also come with questions and challenges. I provide comprehensive support for families navigating this stage, whether you’re starting purees, baby-led weaning, or a combination approach. For infants having difficulty progressing with solids, I assess oral-motor skills, sensory preferences, and feeding readiness to create a plan tailored to your child’s needs. My focus is on making mealtimes enjoyable and stress-free while fostering your baby’s confidence and skills to explore new tastes and textures.
Feeding challenges can be stressful for both children and their families, but you don’t have to navigate them alone. Using approaches such as AEIOU and the Get Permission Approach To Anxious Eaters, Anxious Mealtimes, I specialize in working with children who have severe picky eating, Pediatric Feeding Disorder (PFD), or Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID). Through a neurodiversity-affirming approach, I focus on creating positive experiences with food, reducing mealtime pressure, and addressing sensory, medical, or emotional factors contributing to feeding difficulties.
Transitioning from tube feeding to oral feeding is a significant journey, and I’m here to provide expert support. I develop individualized plans for tube weaning, in collaboration with your child's hospital team, that prioritize your child’s safety, comfort, and readiness. By incorporating approaches that encourage exploration and build on connection, such as the Get Permission Approach To Tube Feeding With Love, alongside caregiver coaching, I aim to help children build confidence with eating and drinking at their own pace. My goal is to create a positive, pressure-free environment that encourages long-term success.
Feeding support packages are not meant to replace 1:1 skilled feeding therapy and are not recommended for infants who are being referred for lactation support or feeding therapy by their medical providers.
Keep reading if you believe your child may need 1:1 feeding therapy.
1:1 skilled intervention
Direct 1:1 feeding therapy services are designed for infants and children with lactation difficulties, swallowing disorders, or impaired oral intake that is not age-appropriate and is associated with medical, nutritional, feeding skill, and/or psychosocial dysfunction.
Please read the symptom list below or answer the linked 6-question survey to see if 1:1 feeding therapy is something your child may need.