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The Gap in Pediatric Care No One Talks About

22 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, feeding therapist Hallie Bulkin recounts how, despite her professional knowledge of feeding red flags and access to providers, it took years for her own child to receive appropriate support. She uses this personal experience to illustrate a broader systemic problem: many parents lack the training to recognize issues, are repeatedly told to "wait and see," and consequently fall through gaps in pediatric care. Bulkin urges clinicians to consistently screen children, trust their clinical instincts, recommend further evaluation when needed, and actively advocate for families, emphasizing that children cannot afford to wait for the system to self‑correct.

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I'm a feeding therapist, right? I know the red flags. I have the language. I have access to providers. And even with all of that, it took years to connect the dots for my own child and get her the support she needed. So if that's my experience, what's happening to the parents who don't have this training, who don't know what questions to ask, who are told like, let's wait and see, right? They're told that one more time and one more time and one more time, right? That's why we're here. Every time you screen a kid, every time you trust your gut, And you recommend further evaluation, every time you advocate for a family, you're filling a gap that shouldn't exist, but it does. And the kids, they can't wait for the system to fix itself.