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We are currently accepting new clients during the first four months postpartum. Once established as a client, we support families, as needed, up until their baby’s first birthday. Weaning consults after their baby’s first birthday are also available for established clients.

We offer an integrated approach to help families reach their lactation and infant feeding goals, which includes:
1) Feeding Therapy
2) Lactation Consultation
3) Occupational Therapy

Our services are family-centered, holistic, and individualized for each client. We utilize a parent-partnership model of therapy wherein the parents are equal partners in therapy. A custom care plan is provided after each appointment and includes a detailed home exercise program. All of the exercises provided as part of the home exercise program are camouflaged in play and serve as a wonderful way to engage with your baby and strengthen your bond.

We help families create a routine for feeding and sleep — not a schedule. We encourage Cue-Based Feeding and educate families about the risks of Volume-Driven Feeding. Regarding sleep, we encourage a baby-led approach to sleep which focuses on co-regulation, responsive parenting, and babies’ attachment needs.

Yes, our office is located in North Dallas at 17430 Campbell Rd, Suite #107, Dallas, TX 75252.

We do not offer home visits at this time.

Typically, we see families for approximately 4-6 sessions in order to meet their goals. Once goals are met, many families choose to come back for an additional 2-6 sessions in order to support ongoing breastfeeding and/or bottle feeding while solids are introduced and to support babies as they work hard to master new motor milestones in the anticipated sequence. When families are committed to the process, we usually see steady improvement. Families who get the best results are those who work diligently and patiently with their babies daily and focus on co-regulation strategies while doing this hard work — change is hard! If there is a functional plateau or if the situation worsens, we refer to another provider either in addition to our services or instead of our services.

The initial evaluation includes a detailed review of your baby’s medical history as well as an assessment of your baby’s oral motor skills, body (posture, tension, movement, coordination), and feeding skills. For families who are breastfeeding (directly or indirectly), a detailed review of the mother’s medical history, an assessment of milk supply, and a breast assessment are included as well. Once a baseline is established, treatment/intervention begins. Evidence-based strategies will be provided during the session, and you will receive a detailed care plan and home exercise program by the end of the next day, which summarizes the recommendations provided during your session and includes helpful notes, handouts, pictures, and videos.

IBCLC stands for International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. This credential is given by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBCLE) and is considered the gold standard by many in the field of lactation. For more information, visit https://iblce.org/. IBCLCs view the mother-infant dyad as an interconnected pair whose skills, preferences, and daily patterns influence one another in a multitude of ways. This unique perspective allows IBCLCs to help families get to the root cause of their lactation and feeding difficulties and create a custom “care plan” to achieve their goals and establish new goals from a range of viable possibilities.

Feeding therapy involves an Occupational therapist (OT) or Speech-language pathologist (SLP) with specialized training working closely with clients and their families to determine the source of the client’s feeding difficulties and developing a custom plan to help make the entire process of feeding easier and more pleasurable for the whole family.

An Occupational therapist (OT) helps clients participate in the activities of daily living that clients need or want to do. OTs do this through the therapeutic use of everyday activities (referred to as “occupations”). These daily activities, or occupations, range from simple to complex. Breastfeeding, bottle feeding, and social interaction between parent and baby are referred to as co-occupations since they require a series of complex interactions between two people. OT services involve: 1) a comprehensive evaluation, during which a baseline and individualized goals are established, 2) customized interventions to improve the client(s) ability to achieve their goals, and 3) ongoing evaluation of outcomes to ensure that goals are being met. OTs have a whole body scope of practice meaning that they evaluate and treat clients from head to toe and support clients with their motor skills, cognitive skills, social-emotional skills, and sensory processing. For more information, visit https://www.aota.org/.