Feeding your child can be a hard road — I can help you navigate it.
Throughout my career, I have been focusing my skills in the areas of pediatric feeding, swallowing, and lactation. As a certified expert in these areas, I am here to help you and your child with challenges due to prematurity, transitioning to solid foods, food allergies or intolerances, feeding concerns due to reflux, failure to thrive, tongue tie (TOTs), breastfeeding and lactation, and so much more!
I am a Speech-Language Pathologist by trade specializing in pediatric feeding and swallowing disorders. I am also a Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), and I provide clinical breastfeeding counseling and management support to families who are thinking about breastfeeding or who have questions or problems during the course of the breastfeeding/lactation process.
Eating is a key skill and an essential process that comes easily to many of us. We often forget that this act that is now second nature took time to learn as babies. Children may have trouble eating at first. Drinks may dribble out of their little mouths, food may be pushed adamantly back out like a toy truck in reverse, and new foods might be gagged on. Though difficulty at first is normal, it shouldn’t last very long. If these behaviors continue, it could be a sign that the child is experiencing feeding and/or swallowing difficulties and may benefit from feeding therapy with a therapist specializing in infant care or food therapist for toddlers. It can be challenging to have a child or adolescent with feeding difficulties. It can be frustrating and confusing, for both you and the child, but seeing a food therapist can help.
Breastfeeding is a natural and beautiful miracle for both you and your child. This journey is often layered with more obstacles and complications than parents anticipate. Know that you are not alone. As a Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), I can offer you clinical breastfeeding support that is tailored to the unique needs of you and your precious baby. As your breastfeeding consultant, I can provide breastfeeding help latching on, connect you with breastfeeding support organizations, and more!
I have spent my career honing my skills in the areas of pediatric feeding therapy and lactation counseling, and have obtained additional clinical lactation consultant certification, to become the expert that can guide you and your child through the obstacles so many families face. I implement evidence-based strategies to ensure that you and your child receive only the best services and support. I am not only here to guide and inform you, I am here to remind you, you are not alone!
If you have experienced or observed any of the following situations or behaviors, consultation with a food therapist or lactation consultant may provide you the guidance and information you and your child need.
Look for one or more of these red flags:
I provide pediatric feeding therapy using a variety of approaches and treatments. As a feeding therapist I tailor intervention to your child’s specific needs using a variety of food therapy approaches to address related issues and illnesses such as food aversion in babies.
If you would like to learn more about feeding therapy near you, and see more signs of feeding and swallowing difficulties, please click here to learn more information about my feeding therapy services.
A lactation consultant can help if you have experienced one or more of these concerns:
To learn more about how you can utilize me as a breastfeeding consultant near you, and to see other reasons you may benefit from working with a lactation consultant, please click here.