Infant feeding support addresses bottle feeding, breastfeeding coordination, and the early transition to cup and solids.
Why Infants Need Specialized Support
Newborns and infants under six months typically need to eat six to twelve times a day, which makes them uniquely vulnerable when feeding isn't going well — small problems compound quickly at that frequency. Our clinicians are trained in Supporting Oral Feeding in Fragile Infants (SOFFI), which allows us to assess and treat feeding and swallowing difficulties in newborns, NICU graduates, and infants up to six months old, including latch, milk transfer, and coordination of the suck-swallow-breathe pattern.
How We Approach It
Our clinicians draw on SOFFI and lactation-informed training as tools within the broader BRIDGE Clinical Reasoning Framework™ for infant feeding — the technique is one input into an individualized plan, not the plan itself.