feeding services
Lactation Care, Infant Feeding Therapy & Parent Support
Every feeding journey is different. I’ll meet you where you are and guide you toward more comfortable, confident feeding for you and your baby.
Specialized Feeding Therapy Options
I provide in-home lactation care, comprehensive feeding evaluations, and individualized therapy designed to support you and your baby with both compassion and clinical expertise. Using a whole-child, evidence-based approach, I assess oral function, developmental factors, feeding mechanics, and your baby’s unique cues and strengths to uncover the root causes of feeding difficulties.
From there, I guide you with clear next steps, practical strategies, and resources that truly fit your family. My goal is to give you confidence, clarity, and a path forward so your baby can feed comfortably, grow well, and thrive.
Breastfeeding
Support that meets you where you are—focusing on latch, comfort, and milk transfer in a gentle, whole-body way. Together, we look at what may be making feeding harder and build a plan that helps breastfeeding feel more comfortable, effective, and sustainable for both of you.
Breastfeeding
Breast Feeding Services
services offered
- Educating and supporting optimal latch and positioning
- Supporting and increasing supply
- Management of oversupply and engorgement
- Using or weaning off nipple shield
- Treatment options for nipple care
- Management for clogged ducts/mastitis
- Support around tongue/lip ties
- Food reactivity
- Flange fitting and pump education
- Returning to work
- Breast/Bottle weaning
When to Seek support
- Nipple pain or discomfort with latch
- Unable to maintain latch at breast
- Reliance on a nipple shield to breastfeed
- Nipples look compressed or lipstick shape when baby unlatches
- Recurrent clogged ducts or mastitis
- Slow weight gain
- Long or extended feed times
- Coughing or choking during feeds
- Clicking or smacking noises while feeding
- Milk loss from corners of the mouth while feeding
- Reflux, gas, colic challenges
- Lip blisters, two tone lips
- White coating on tongue – “milk tongue”
Bottle Feeding
Guidance to help bottle feeding feel smoother and more predictable. We look at your baby’s cues, flow needs, positioning, and oral skills to find the right fit—so feeds feel calm, safe, and supportive for your baby’s development.
Bottle Feeding
Bottle Feeding Services
services offered
- Finding optimal positioning
- Supporting oral function and feeding skills
- Best bottle choice for your baby
- The ins and outs of combo feeding
- Food reactivity and support around formula choice
When to Seek support
- Slow weight gain
- Long or extended feed times
- Coughing or choking during feeds
- Baby is unsettled or crying during bottle feeds
- Bottle refusal
- Clicking or smacking noises while feeding
- Milk loss during feeding
- Reflux, gas, colic challenges
- Lip blisters, two tone lips
- White coating on tongue – “milk tongue”
- Mouth breathing
Transition to Solids
Support to make starting solids feel exciting instead of overwhelming. We look at readiness signs, oral-motor skills, and sensory responses, then create a plan that helps your baby explore new textures and skills confidently, safely, and at their own pace.
Solids
Transitioning to Solids
When to Seek support
- Seeking confidence in knowing exactly how to transition your baby
- Gagging and/or vomiting with solids
- Pocketing food
- Spitting food out
- Overstuffing the mouth
- Not progressing beyond purees by 8 months
- Having difficulties with spoon feeding
- Difficulties learning to drink from open cup or straw
- Seems disinterested when solids are offered (turning head/throwing food/playing with food, not bringing food to the mouth, etc.)
- Needs to be distracted to eat
- Eating is stressful for baby or caregiver
services offered
- Readiness assessment
- Guidance on first foods
- Progressing through age appropriate textures
- Supporting optimal oral motor function
- How to offer foods safely
- Introducing allergens
- General education for best positioning, cups, and utensils
- Troubleshooting challenges
Tongue and Lip Ties
A careful, functional look at how your baby’s mouth moves during feeding and whether a tie may be part of the challenge. The goal is to understand the whole picture—symptoms, tension, latch, and compensation patterns—and offer clear, gentle next steps that help feeding feel easier.
Oral Ties
Oral Ties Services
Baby’s Signs of Oral Tie
- Shallow latch
- Unable to maintain latch with breast/bottle
- Chomping at the breast or with the bottle
- Clicking or smacking sounds while feeding
- Milk loss of corners of the mouth
- Reflux, gas, colic
- Open mouth posture/Mouth breathing
- High/narrow palate
- Tongue rests on the floor of the mouth
- Falling asleep for most or all feedings
- Noisy breathing/snoring
Parent’s signs of oral tie
- Pain while nursing
- Nipple damage – cracked, bleeding
- Lipstick or compressed nipple when baby unlatches
- Recurrent plugged ducts, mastitis
- Concerns with milk supply
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