May 5-9, 2025 - Virtual via Zoom
May 5-9, 2025 - Virtual via Zoom
Infants with feeding challenges in the first few months of life benefit from specialized feeding support. Their parents also need care to help foster the infant-parent relationship and optimize emotional wellbeing, which are often impacted by these difficulties. Whether they discharged home from the NICU or have had general feeding issues, several feeding modifications can be offered that optimize outcomes for feeding, growth and development as well as parental emotional wellbeing. Offering these modifications in partnership with the parents through coaching and exploration centers the relationship and helps with carryover of the feeding plan.
Join us as we apply the pediatric feeding disorder framework with a NICU graduate case study using case discussion and videos. We will explore therapeutic feeding modifications in the context of parental readiness, centering perinatal mental health through these encounters. This session will be interactive.
Dr. Butterfield is a psychologist providing services for people experiencing perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, perinatal loss, traumatic birth, NICU stays, and parenting medically complex infants. She travels both nationally and internationally providing training and consultation to medical and mental health organizations such as U.W. Infant Palliative Care, National Association of Perinatal Social Workers, KK Women and Children’s Hospital of Singapore, YANMA Parenting Academy of China, Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nursing and others. She is an official trainer for Perinatal Support of WA, Postpartum Support International, and PATTCh (Prevention and Treatment of Traumatic Birth).
Tiffany Elliott is a Speech-Language Pathologist, Certified Neonatal Therapist, and an International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant, specializing in pediatric feeding/swallowing disorders with emphasis on preterm and medically complex infants and strengthening the caregiver-infant dyad. She works in a grant-funded position at Northwest Center as a hospital-to-home systems change specialist, where she focuses on improving the transition from hospital-to-home and building workforce capacity. Additionally, she works at Seattle Children’s Hospital, as a SLP on the outpatient infant feeding team providing direct service for infants and families.
Tina has worked as a Speech Language Pathologist for 19 years and has her infant mental heath endorsement. She currently works at Boyer Children’s Clinic. Tina specializes in infant feeding. Her special interests include supporting caregivers and babies in the transition from NICU to home, preterm and medically complex infants, transitioning babies to solids, and transition from tube feeding to oral feeding. Tina is passionate about centering the caregiver-infant dyad and infant mental health. She understands the value of parent coaching, working with families in their natural environment, and recognizing/respecting different family cultures.
