Infant Feeding & Baby Myo
Infant Feeding
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Transition to solids
Transitioning to solid foods can be stressful. Many parents feel unequipped with how to offer solid foods and which “approach” is best. Staring with puree foods or Baby led weaning and anything in between, we can help.
*Understanding developmental readiness
*Prerequisites for starting solids
*Selecting food choices
*High chair recommendations
*Positioning
*Supporting infant skills
*Chewing!
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Bottle Feeding
Often times babies have difficulty with bottle feeding, whether you want to transition to or from breast feeding to bottle feeding, Little Stories can help support bottle feeding:
*Back to work pumping
*Transition to daycare feeding readiness
*Graduating the NICU
*Recognizing pressure feeding
*Paced feeding
*Aversions & strikes
*Oral motor difficulties, tongue tie
*Craniofacial complications
*Swallowing disorders, dysphagia
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Tube Feeding
Sometimes feeding doesn’t go as planned and a feeding tube is a necessary intervention. Medical providers do not often provide a way off of the tube and parents can be left with few options. Little Stories has the experience to support you with:
*Weaning
*Rate and Volume issues
*Vomiting, gagging, oral aversions
*Pumping for breast milk feeds
*NG tubes, G-tubes, GJ tubes
Baby Myo
What is Baby Myo? Myo is short for Myofunctional therapy and as a speech-language pathologist, I have training in the structures and muscles of the face and mouth that are involved in feeding and swallowing. Babies can have difficulties using their muscles correctly and often develop compensatory movements to eat that can impact latching, sucking, transferring milk, breathing and chewing as they develop. Infancy is a great time of fast paced development that has long lasting implications for problems down the road related to sleeping issues, sleep apnea, behavioral issues, decreased executive function and concentration, mouth breathing and poor facial development. Orofacial myofunctional therapy is more commonly known with adults; however, babies show early signs of these issues and baby myo can mitigate these issues in infancy by retraining motor patterns, releasing tension and supporting proper oral function rather than maintaining compensatory patterns for life.
We have over 100 hours in infant oral feeding skills, myofunctional therapy and development and truly specialize in infant feeding skills. We would love to help you and your baby eat better, whether they breast feed, bottle feed or tube feed!
Check your insurance.
Little Stories has partnered with The Lactation Network (TLN) and Wildflower Health to manage your insurance coverage for you. If you are breastfeeding/lactating your insurance may cover our visits, even if you are pumping and providing milk via bottle to tube! It’s hassle free. (Current Plans Accepted: Aetna, First Health, First Choice Health, Imagine Health, Multiplan, PNOA, Sutter Health, UHC, VA CCN - Optum East (regions 1-3), and Velocity and Cigna).
Click the links below and fill out the form to check if your insurance plan has lactation coverage.
TLN or Wildflower gets back to you, and notifies us about your coverage.
If you are covered we schedule right away!
TLN or Wildflower takes care of the billing and payment. Hassle free for you
IF you have Aetna, First Health, First Choice Health, Imagine Health, Multiplan, PNOA, Sutter Health, UHC, VA CCN - Optum East (regions 1-3), and Velocity Click TLN.
