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Melanie Potock

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The American Speech Language Hearing Association s The American Speech Language Hearing Association states that “evidence-based practice (EBP) is the integration of 1️⃣Clinical expertise/expert opinion✨The knowledge, judgment, and critical reasoning acquired through your training and professional experiences 2️⃣Evidence (external and internal)✨The best available information gathered from the scientific literature (external evidence) and from data and observations collected on your individual client (internal evidence) 3️⃣Client/patient/caregiver perspectives✨The unique set of personal and cultural circumstances, values, priorities, and expectations identified by your client and their caregivers ✨✨✨When all three components of EBP are considered together, clinicians can make informed, evidence-based decisions and provide high-quality services reflecting the interests, values, needs, and choices of individuals with communication disorders.” Can a spouted sippy cup possibly influence facial development when frequency, duration and intensity of use are factors? In my professional opinion after 25+ years of specializing in pediatric feeding…yes. See my reels for more info…I’ll share in my stories today too! Best cups for babies, toddlers, big kids? See the Amazon list via #linkinbio or 👇🏻 amazon.com/shop/mymunchbug #melaniepotock #stepawayfromthesippycup
✨We do NOT have a “cure” for SIDS and we don ✨We do NOT have a “cure” for SIDS and we don’t know what causes Sudden Infant Death Syndrome…yet. 👉🏼What we do have is a brilliant team of researchers who have identified a POTENTIAL biomarker for babies at high risk. It’s a very small but crucial study that may open the door to solving a very complex medical issue. 👉🏼The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends offering a pacifier as baby falls asleep (up to 12 months of age) to help prevent SIDS. There are six published case controlled studies that show pacifier use to be beneficial for this purpose. 👉🏼If you’d like to know which pacifiers are best for baby’s facial development and how to comfortably wean the paci, please go to my course library to take my short course on Pacifiers. See the #linkinbio or 👇🏻 mymunchbug.com/course-library/ #melaniepotock
🥩 IF you want to offer fibrous strips of meat t 🥩 IF you want to offer fibrous strips of meat to your baby to suck the juices and gnaw away, it’s not the same meat you’d serve to your family. We enjoy moist, tender meats and those are exactly the kind that are likely to break of easily in a baby’s mouth with just a tug of those very strong jaws, or those adorable front teeth. 👉🏼I have two rules when it comes to self-feeding. 1. Can baby break it down completely with their gums? 2. How likely is this to get lodge in baby’s airway if they lose control of the food? 👉🏼One one hand, we want baby to be able to break down the food with a munching motion before swallowing it. On the other hand, that same jaw can clamp down hard on a strip of flank steak and rip off a piece, leaving a chunk of meat that is now impossible to chew without teeth. If you’re relying on baby’s tongue thrust reflex to expel the food, keep in mind it’s already beginning to fade at 6 months of age. We’ll see it completely integrate by twelve months. Baby might gag to try to expel the chunk, but gagging isn’t foolproof. 👉🏼Know CPR. Kids choke. Offer safe foods to minimize the risk. See my video course library for my favorite first aid/CPR course #linkinbio 👉🏼Here’s the study that looked at the choking risks of BLW. There were no more choking risks, IF parents offered safe foods. ✨Daniels, L., et al. (2015). Baby-Led Introduction to SolidS (BLISS) study: a randomised controlled trial of a baby-led approach to complementary feeding. BMC pediatrics, 15, 179. Whether you’re practicing BLW, a traditional approach or a hybrid of both, Responsive Feeding is recommended by the AAP, WHO and UNICEF. 💕 #melaniepotock
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