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Daily Archives: September 13, 2021

Tastes

Dr Ross' Parent BlogBy Gina GassSeptember 13, 2021

By Lauren Fuhrman – There are lots of suggestions for introducing babies to food: start with veggies before fruits, follow baby led weaning, rice cereal first, only homemade baby foods, puree then ground then chopped… Instead of focusing on the modality, my focus was on exposure to taste. I know I was influenced by learning…

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Dr. Erin Sundseth Ross is a Speech Pathologist with a Doctoral degree in Clinical Sciences – Health Services Research. She completed a two-year post-doctoral training in the Section of Nutrition and is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, at the University of Colorado Denver. She is also on faculty at the Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions. Dr. Ross has over 30 years of experience working in the NICU within several HealthONE hospitals, and with older children when she was at the SOS Feeding Solutions clinic in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Ross is the creator of SOFFI®, a feeding program for use in the NICU. She has specialized in the development of feeding skills, and the etiology and treatment of feeding and growth problems in infants and very young children from initial hospitalization through the first 5 years of life.

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