General tips for professionals who are working with infants who are learning to eat, with both breast or bottle feedings covered.

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Hello everyone, and welcome to yet another week in “COVID19 Territory”. Another week in isolation/quarantine. To spice things up, I am going to be sharing my favorite newly released article (at least the citation and the abstract). Every week, I will share one that has been released within the 2 weeks prior. These will be…

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NICU Standards, Competencies and Best Practices

We are in a brand new world!  I don’t know about you, but my entire life has changed. I have been shifting between terrified and motivated. Motivated to finish the SOFFITM 2-day online training module package, obtain CEUs, create Advanced Webinars, learn how to start Mentoring, and doing town halls on ZOOM.  Terrified because all…

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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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