And 2020 Starts off with a BANG

Happy 2020! Well, 2019 was quite a busy year. We have presented on infant feeding and SOFFITM in Vienna, Austria, at the University of Chile, and at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The 2-day SOFFITM  has been in Texas, North Carolina, New Jersey, Louisiana, and Minnesota.  SOFFITM  training has also been to the United…

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Videofluoroscopy Swallow Studies at the Breast

Just ran across an article from Brazil from March 2019. It is in the Open Access journal, International Archives of Otorhinolaryngology.  Dr. Ana Maria Hernandez and Ester Mandelbaum Goncalves Bianchini are the authors. Very interesting – they looked at similarities and differences in infant swallowing at both breast and with bottle feeding, use VFSS. They…

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Chicago is a Happening Place!

Chicago and the team at Lurie Children’s Hospital are amazing. I was honored to be a keynote speaker at their 4th Annual Developmental Care conference. This year’s theme was “Eat, Sleep, Play.”  I was honored to be able to finally meet Mary E Coughlin, BSN, RN, MS, NNP, RNC-E.  Her passion revolves around trauma informed…

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Tongue-tie, Lip-tie, Buccal-ties, Oh My! 

Seriously, did you know that a recent study showed marked increase in frenotomy? (Kapoor, V., Douglas, P. S., Hill, P. S., Walsh, L. J., & Tennant, M. (2018). Frenotomy for tongue-tie in Australian children, 2006-2016: an increasing problem. Med J Aust, 208(2), 88-89.) These authors found an 834 percent increase in reported diagnoses of tongue tie…

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