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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Swallow Study Disconnect – The Importance of Working As A Team

Recently, I had someone ask, during a Q&A, about a little one they are working with. The little one had a swallow study, and mother was told to thicken her breastmilk. The infant has lost weight. The treating therapist says mom was never given a copy of the report, and is thickening her expressed breast…

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Do you send infants home with NG-Tubes?

I am currently reviewing an article about home discharge with NG-Tubes. We still do not do this in my hospital. Do you? Regardless of your practice, I find this fact fascinating…. of the 13,232 infants in this study (all born under 33 weeks gestation, free of congenital anomalies), 96.9% were discharged fully orally feeding. Only…

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