Infant feeding problems cause intense distress for new parents, and therapists need specialized training, not just personal motherhood experience or book knowledge, to help them through it.
They helped me understand how difficult it is, which helps me meet people in those hard moments because you have to have empathy when a new mama is coming in your office and that baby won't eat because that is one of the hardest things a new parent can be going through because that's supposed to be the easy thing, right? Yeah. We just want our babies to be fed. We want them to grow. We want to do whatever we can to keep them happy and healthy. And for one of those pieces to be failing, those parents are distraught. So we have to meet them with so much empathy and really know what we're doing. So I did not want to be that person without training, and I did not have the training in my own head. I did not have the training to be an infant feeding therapist. I did older kid therapy way longer than I've done infant. meeting because I needed to be more specialized in my head. I needed to understand this more. I needed to be more than just a mom who had been through it and someone who had read a few books.
What I Was Missing in Feeding Therapy: ARFID, Airway, and Myo with Samy Hernandez
