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Hi, I'm Krisi Brackett, MS SLP/CCC this blog is dedicated to current information on pediatric feeding and swallowing issues. Email me at feedingnewsletter@gmail.com with questions.

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Question About Feeding Preterm Infants in the NICU

August 26, 2017 by Krisi Brackett 3 Comments

Question to the Blog About Feeding Preterm Infants in the NICU: My observation, like other therapists, is that many of the micro preemies and/or babies that have had very involved respiratory issues and complex treatment needs because of these issue, often require increased sensory input related to feeding (temperature variance, thickened consistency).  What we have observed is that these Keep Reading >>

Filed Under: Feeding Treatment Tagged With: bottle, feeding problem, NICU, oxygen and feeding, preterm feeding

Visualizing Infant Feeding with nfant Feeding Solution

August 7, 2017 by Krisi Brackett Leave a Comment

Visualizing infant feeding with nfant Feeding Solution: by Amanda A. Peeler MCD, CCC-SLP; Account Manager East for Nfant Labs, LLC.   Blog Note: I saw this system demonstrated at a feeding conference and asked Amanda if she would write a post explaining it and what it can do. Thank you Amanda! As a speech language pathologist in the neonatal ICU, I have personally experienced the Keep Reading >>

Filed Under: Feeding Treatment, Oral-motor and Sensory Tagged With: bottle, feeding problem, nfant, NICU, oral motor

Upcoming virtual workshop: Fostering Collaborative Care: Parent & Provider Perspectives

July 30, 2017 by Krisi Brackett 1 Comment

  Upcoming virtual workshop: Fostering Collaborative Care: Parent & Provider Perspectives     Upcoming virtual workshop: https://www.feedingmatters.org/blog/upcoming-virtual-workshop Join Feeding Matters on Thursday, August 10, 2017 from 7:00 – 8:00 pm ET for Fostering Collaborative Care: Parent & Provider Perspectives, a virtual workshop. Presenters will Keep Reading >>

Filed Under: workshops Tagged With: feeding problem, feeding research, feeding team, feeding workshops, NICU, Pediatric Dysphagia

Free Webinars from innarahealth.com

May 28, 2017 by Krisi Brackett 1 Comment

Free Webinars from innarahealth.com http://www.innarahealth.com The Innara Health management team is dedicated to improving neonatal care and using our broad healthcare, business and medical technology expertise. http://www.innarahealth.com/webinar-archive/?submissionGuid=61a1ec51-4580-42b5-859b-3772763dd98f Gastric Tubes in Neonates: Controversies and Unanswered Questions by Sandra Keep Reading >>

Filed Under: General Feeding Information, Uncategorized, workshops Tagged With: feeding problem, medically complex infant, NICU, Pediatric Dysphagia, pediatric feeding webinar, tube feeding

Feeding Flock News 

July 13, 2016 by Krisi Brackett Leave a Comment

http://nursing.unc.edu/uncs-feeding-flock-featured-in-american-journal-of-maternalchild-nursing/?utm_content=buffer30454 UNC’s “Feeding Flock” is featured in the latest edition of the American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing. Please check this out- so proud of my colleagues! The UNC feeding team also had the opportunity to contribute to one of the articles. Keep Reading >>

Filed Under: Research Tagged With: extreme picky eating, feeding flock, feeding problem, NICU

Problem-Solving Your NICU Role with Catherine Shaker MS/CCC-SLP, BCS-S

August 1, 2015 by Krisi Brackett Leave a Comment

Question: I am an NICU therapist in a 57 bed level 4 NICU, we have a very difficult time convincing physicians of the benefit and necessity for speech therapy and OT in the NICU. Chronic babies are ordered as well as babies with a diagnosed syndrome or cleft palate etc. However babies with bleeds, long term intubation and kids with PMA of 24-28 weeks that should have a consult are sometimes Keep Reading >>

Filed Under: Feeding Treatment, Oral-motor and Sensory Tagged With: bottle, catherine shaker, feeding therapy, NICU, speech therapy, swallowing

The Early Feeding Skills Assessment Tool (EFS)

July 7, 2015 by Krisi Brackett 2 Comments

This is re-posted with permission from Catherine Shaker from her website at http://www.Shaker4SwallowingandFeeding.com . Thank you Catherine! Posted on May 16, 2015 by Shaker Seminars   An NICU SLP recently asked about resources for training neonatal nurses on feeding stress cues and stop signs. An SLP I know from Minnesota, Wendy, suggested the SLP take a look at the EFS. I responded Keep Reading >>

Filed Under: General Feeding Information, Oral-motor and Sensory Tagged With: bottle, catherine shaker, cue based feeding, early feeding skill, feeding therapy, NICU, Pediatric Dysphagia, speech therapy, Suzanne Thoyre, swallowing

Update on post: Know the flow, don’t go with the flow!

September 2, 2014 by Krisi Brackett 1 Comment

Know the flow, don’t go with the flow! by Britt Pados PhD(c), RN, NNP-BC, bpados@email.unc.edu. I have had multiple requests for the charts on nipple flow rates which are hard to see in the original post. I have added a pdf link under each chart. If you click on the pdf link it will open up the chart in a new page.I will also add the links here. Pados Graph 1 for Blog Post PDF-2 Keep Reading >>

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: bottle, feeding problem, feeding therapy, NICU, nipples

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