Thursday, May 31, 2012

Sonja P's Posts

Sleep feeding in Infants-new survey results...

Recently Jan Gambino and I conducted a survey on sleep-feeding infants. Sixty one parents of sleep feeding infants took the survey and at least 60% of the parents answered all questions. Remaining 40% parents could not answer all questions because in many babies, sleep feeding had not been resolved by the time they took the survey. Our survey... Read moreChevron

Ending sleep feeding: what works and what does not

     After being away for over a year from Health Central, I thought I need to come back and update the status of my sleep feeder baby. Avin is no longer a baby and he is no longer a sleep feeder; he is now a 2 year old toddler who had graduated to eating table foods; rice, veggies, fruits, crackers, toast, yogurt etc. We had... Read moreChevron

Mommy’s solution to Avin’s sleep-feeding: understanding reflux and feeding difficulties

  I have written several shareposts on this site and this one is more of a review or summary type of post. My expertise is that I am a mother of a reflux baby and I understand science (Ph.D. in Biological Sciences).  I am not a medical doctor or a therapist but when these experts explain the logic behind their treatment, I can understand... Read moreChevron

Avin's story continues: Acid reflux, bottle aversions and starting with solids

Recently we took our little boy Avin to his nth therapist. This lady is a very experienced SLP (Speech Language Pathologist) who specializes in feeding.   After evaluating Avin she said that he does not have any behavioral issues. My husband and I were shocked by her diagnosis.   Every single pediatrician that we met and even all the... Read moreChevron

How would you know whether an acid reflux medication is working for you baby?

After seeing 3 ped-GI's, 4 pediatricians, 3 therapists, I learned something very interesting about the GERD medicines given to infants. I also joined a local feeding therapy group and we chat online and exchange issues and ideas about medicines, doctor's advice, new products etc. I also met 4 other reflux parents in person and three by... Read moreChevron