Pediatric Speech Therapists and Occupational Therapists with advanced training work with children who are having difficulty with feeding and eating.
Reasons to have your child evaluated include the following:
- Slow/poor weight gain
- Dysphagia, Aspiration
- Coughing
- Gagging
- Wet sounding voice
- Difficulty with breastfeeding
- Poor latch
- Lengthy feeds
- Fatigue/falling asleep at the breast
- Strong letdown
- Suspected or repaired tongue tie
- Difficulty with bottle feeding
- Increased liquid loss/spillage
- Poor latch
- Lengthy feeds
- Fatigue/falling asleep while feeding
- Need to add rice cereal or oatmeal to bottle
- Difficulty transitioning to baby food/purees
- Difficulty with transitioning to table/solid foods
- Picky/selective/restrictive eating
- Reflux/GERD