Mentoring: The Infant Feeding Evaluation
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This episode explains how to do a safe, informative feeding and swallowing evaluation and what to do when things do go “off the rails.” Product flow rate issues? Positioning issues? Pacing needed? Or is something much more significant going on? What is the root of many types of feeding aversion and how does it show itself in infancy? Aspiration fears? How do you comfort and educate the parents? What do you DO?
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