Can I print, download, copy, or take information from your website and create a handout, presentation, or otherwise distribute or share the information in any way?

No, it is against the Terms of Service and the End User License Agreement to copy, download, modify, recreate, or distribute any content on this website. Memberships are for individual users and are priced for individuals to use for their personal use or use with their own patients. If other healthcare professionals need access to the information, they need to purchase a membership. If you are in a hospital or have a large team (> 10 people), I would recommend that you purchase an institutional/group membership, which will allow your entire group to access the information you need to provide excellent patient care. If you believe this information should be freely available, please read below for more information about how to make that possible.

How can I help to make this information freely available?

Infant Feeding Labs believes that information about flow rates of products should be freely available to the parents and healthcare professionals who need this information to make decisions about the best products to use for feeding babies. In order for that to happen, the companies need to be responsible for paying for the costs of testing. Infant Feeding Labs encourages you to contact the company representatives that you have contact with and let them know that this information is important to you and ask them to pay for the testing. To make this easier, Britt has created a letter template that you can use, edit, and send. To access this letter template, go to this Google doc here. You will need to either download or make your own copy in order to edit.

Is the flow rate that you get the same as what a baby would get when they eat?

No, each baby will suck with a different amount of pressure and will suck at different rates between feedings and even within the same feeding. The intention of this testing is to provide a highly reliable, consistent testing process across different products so that the products can be compared to one another.

My baby is having a lot of trouble with eating. Where can I find help?

If you are in Massachusetts, please contact Britt Pados by email at britt@infantfeedingcare.com or at 617-902-8774. If you are not in Massachusetts, here are a couple of resources for finding a healthcare provider.

Infant Feeding Specialists is a group of speech language therapists and occupational therapists who specialize in caring for infants. https://infantfeedingspecialists.com/

Feeding Matters is a non-profit organization that has a variety of resources for parents of children who have feeding difficulties, including a provider directory and a parents support group. https://www.feedingmatters.org/resources-support/provider-directory/.

Do you have any conflict of interests with the companies whose products you test?

I am an objective third-party and do not have any financial conflicts of interest with any of the companies whose products I test. I do offer a service to test products and provide companies with specific data about their products. In this case, I do accept payments from companies for the service of testing their products. These fees help to reduce the costs for professionals.

I am a healthcare professional. Where can I learn more about infant feeding?

I have additional education content available here (and more coming soon!). Other websites that have educational content related to feeding include: Chicago Feeding Group and Feeding Matters.