Goodbye 2025 & Hello 2026
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To the New Mom: Self-Care Isn’t Optional, It’s Essential
You may be reading this with a baby on your chest, dry shampoo in your hair, and a cold cup of coffee on the counter—welcome! You’re in the thick of…
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4 Tips for Growing Confidence in Your Toddler
Written by Ally. When you enter into the 1 ½ year old phase and all that it brings… is a lot! A lot of pushing limits to discover rules of the world and developing their own personality. Toddlers are like sponges, soaking up everything around them. They learn by touching, tasting, dropping or throwing toys,…
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Riding the Wave: Life with a New Baby
Well, hello from the other side… of sleep deprivation! If you’re reading this, chances are you’re somewhere in the beautiful, chaotic, and utterly life-altering landscape of a new baby. Whether…
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It was all consuming and I felt like a failure…
I still find myself looking back at my breastfeeding journey, even as my daughter is now over 27 months old. I would love to say I reflect fondly, but I don’t. It was one of the biggest challenges I have ever faced. She was my first baby and I felt completely lost. I struggled with…
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Roles during feedings
After a long absence with trainings in Greece and Qater, I have returned to really begin 2024. And this has prompted me to think about the roles of the feeder and the infant or child during mealtimes. I was watching a nurse feed an infant in the NICU this week and thought to myself “the…
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Greetings from our SOFFI® Family and Feeding FUNdamentals!
Greetings from our SOFFI® Family and Feeding FUNdamentals! As we reflect upon 2023 all of us here at Feeding FUNdamentals are grateful for an incredible (although very fast) year. On behalf of our team, I would like to take this opportunity to share some of our successes and our thoughts. We have been fortunate to have started in-person trainings once…
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Why do we think we need to “wake up” the mouth?
I am teaching here in Australia and just got asked a question. Do I ever use vibrating toys, oral-motor tools, or oral programs to wake up the baby’s mouth? I thought I would share my answer. No. I don’t.  Why? Because I focus on how healthy newborns learn to eat, and providing biologically expected experiences. We…
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Leaning into Love with Julie Foge
By Josephine – I wanted to share an amazing blog post by Julie Foge of Leaning into Love – Dear Families of the Newly Diagnosed  I encourage you to read this and all of her blog posts and resources. Julie has a beautiful parent perspective sharing her journey of having a NICU baby. “Leaning…
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Babies are babies are babies.
By Dr. Erin – I just wanted to share a thought that’s been puzzling around in my head. I have been going around the world, so fortunate to have just returned from India, where I watched babies who were transitioning from tube feeding, to paladai feeding, to breastfeeding. I’ve been in Indonesia, where I’ve watched…
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