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WHAT WE DO

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Our Services

We provide individualized, family centered feeding therapy and lactation support in your home.  Infants and young children do best when treatment strategies are taught to caregivers and implemented in their natural environment.  For this reason, our sessions include direct therapy with a strong focus on parent coaching.  

Infant
Feeding

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Feeding your baby is not always easy.  If you are having any difficulty, we are here to support you!

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Includes concerns with:

  • Breastfeeding

  • Bottle feeding

  • Oral motor skills

  • Difficulty latching to the breast or bottle

  • Nipple pain

  • Frequently coughing or choking

  • Pumping

  • Flange Sizing

  • Milk supply

  • Slow weight gain

  • Tongue/lip ties 

  • Weaning

Pediatric
Feeding

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We work with your child and family to create positive mealtime experiences and improve oral sensory-motor feeding skills.  All goals are family driven with a strong focus on responsive feeding. 

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Includes concerns with:

  • Transitioning to solids

  • Chewing

  • Swallowing

  • Excessive gagging

  • Vomiting during meals

  • Oral motor weaknesses

  • Picky eating 

  • Anxiety around new foods

  • Extended mealtimes (30+ mins)

  • Stressful mealtimes

Tongue
& Lip Ties

We provide functional feeding and oral motor assessments to help determine if a tethered oral tissue could be causing feeding difficulties.  We develop a collaborative treatment plan and provide oral motor rehabilitation and feeding therapy before and after the tongue/lip is released until your feeding goals are met.

 

Symptoms that may indicate a tongue or lip tie:

  • Shallow or difficulty maintaining latch

  • Painful breastfeeding

  • Clicking while eating

  • Choking/coughing

  • Lip blisters

  • Chomping on breast/bottle

  • Excessive gas/spit up

Prenatal
Prep Consult

Our goal is to make feeding a positive experience for you and your growing family from the start!   We provide individualized infant feeding education to address your personalized feeding goals: breast, bottle, or combo feeding.  

 

Education includes: 

  • Hunger cues

  • Positioning

  • Latching

  • Bottle/nipple selection

  • Pacifiers

  • Positive oral motor experiences

  • Pumping schedules

  • Milk storage

Starting
Solids

If you are feeling unsure or overwhelmed by starting solids with your baby, we are here to help!  There are so many approaches to starting solids with no one way being the “right” way for everyone.  We will provide an individualized plan to introduce solids to your baby and help set your family up for feeding success.

 

Includes:

  • Assessing the signs of readiness to start solids

  • Determining the right feeding method for your family- Baby led weaning/puree/combo feeding

  • Appropriate textures and how to prepare foods safely

  • Ideal positioning/seating

  • Strategies to set your baby up for success and decrease picky eating

  • Cup/straw drinking

1:1 Parent Coaching

Have questions about your child’s speech, language, or feeding skills but don’t feel like you need ongoing support?  We offer 1:1 parent coaching sessions.  They are a great way to ask individualized questions about your child and problem solve with a feeding specialist. Includes a written handout with several tips and tricks tailored to your child.  45 mins.

 

Topics could include:

  • Tips to help your toddler try new foods

  • Tips to raise a happy eater

  • Tips to wean off the bottle

  • Tips to assist with bottle refusal

  • And many more!

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