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{Professional Insight} When Your Preemie is Struggling to Eat
Most people view eating as a simple task that occurs automatically. Unfortunately, for many premature babies, the trauma of their birth and medical procedures during infancy can lead to severe feeding...
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When Mealtime Becomes a Battle
Many preemies struggle with eating at some point in their life. Melissa McMurchy's daughter was no exception. Kendall's troubles began shortly after NICU discharge and continue to be a challenge today,...
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Why Won’t My NEC Baby Eat?
I didn’t know it was possible for someone so small to throw up so much. Indeed, it is possible. The first year of my son’s life was rocky, to put it mildly. He contracted necrotizing enterocolitis...
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Feeding Therapy: Learning From Our Mistakes
Feeding your child can be one of the biggest, most painful struggles you’ll face after leaving the NICU. I know it has been for us. When your child doesn’t eat enough, or won’t eat at all, it can...
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Your Preemie Has Feeding Issues? You Are Not Alone!
One of my happiest moments during my daughter’s five-month NICU stay was one morning when I called her primary nurse, and she told me Daphne had drunk an entire bottle of expressed breast milk. A whole...
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{FB Chat} Overcoming Feeding Obstacles
Speech Language Therapist Julie Wahrenberger, M.S., CCC-SLP from Spring Branch Speech Therapy discussed feeding obstacles that preemies and NICU babies sometimes face and how to overcome them. [Read...
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Tackling Feeding When Your Preemie Has SPD
Feeding my micro-preemie was never easy. First there was that whole thing about how she was born at 25 weeks and weighed less than my typical dinner plate. Then that whole thing about about how she...
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The Best (Unwanted) Advice from the NICU
We had been in the NICU for just a couple of weeks when a nurse stopped me in the bay just near my son's bed."I'm Chris. I'm the charge nurse." she said. I don't remember my response. It was probably...
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Meet the Professional: What Does a Neonatal Therapist Do?
When a baby is born premature or with special health care needs, they require immediate, intensive care. With all the medical interventions and monitoring it's easy to start seeing your baby as a...
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