Hello! My name is Amanda, founder of Baby Feeding Support. I am both a lactation consultant (IBCLC) and occupational therapist (MOTR/L) specialized in infant feeding and development. I have experience working in the hospital setting (both the neonatal intensive care unit and mother-baby unit), early intervention setting, outpatient setting, and home health setting.

Beyond my clinical experience, my business was founded and rooted in my wild, difficult, stressful, and beautiful journey into motherhood. I have a precious baby girl who had difficulties with both breast and bottle feeding. Which meant that I had difficulties nursing her and teaching bottle feeding to my family, when all I wanted to do was be her mother. This shattered the textbook answers I had as I battled the reality of being a parent. I continue to be humbled every day by this experience and now aim to integrate my holistic approach as an occupational therapist, lactation consultant, and mother to individually tailor and support goals together as a team.

I hold a variety of certifications to support your feeding goals. I first and foremost am a licensed occupational therapist, where I have experience in administering many different developmental assessments and can create a treatment plan that integrates in your goals as a parent. After all YOU are the expert. I also have been trained in the Supporting Oral Feeding in Fragile Infants (SOFFI) and Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) approaches to support feeding with bottles and then transition infants to eating solid foods. This approach has helped me treat babies and families experiencing severe reflux, picky and problem eating, and eating with gastrostomy tubes. This is a highly individualized approach and these therapy sessions are self-pay single sessions. 

I am also a neonatal therapist, where I have extensive and acute training with critically ill infants currently in, or those that have transitioned home from, the neonatal intensive care unit as well as healthy late preterm or full term infants that had difficulty eating after they were born in the postpartum hospital nursery. I hold a neonatal touch and massage certification (NTMTC) and am a certified infant massage instructor (CIMI). I believe in addressing the infants whole body to work on feeding and bodywork can improve feeding outcomes immensely! I offer individual and group classes for infant massage/body work. 

Lastly, I am an international board certified lactation consultant (IBCLC). I offer individualized evaluations and treatment sessions either in-home (where I come to you!) or via telehealth.