Pediatric Feeding Therapy for Infants and Toddlers in Mequon
Feeding should support your child’s growth, comfort, and connection with your family. When feeding becomes stressful, takes too long, or limits the foods your child can eat, it may be time to seek support.
Mequon Speech and Learning Connection offers pediatric feeding therapy for families in Mequon, Milwaukee, and nearby Wisconsin communities. Choose the service that best fits your child’s stage and current feeding needs.
Infant and Toddler Suck Retraining and Feeding Support
Feeding challenges can look very different from one stage to the next. A baby may struggle with latching or bottle feeding, while a toddler may refuse solids, avoid certain textures, pocket food, or have a very limited list of accepted foods.
Our feeding services are designed to help families better understand what may be affecting feeding and identify practical next steps based on their child’s needs.
Infant Feeding and Suck Retraining Therapy
Is your baby having trouble nursing, taking a bottle, staying latched, or coordinating sucking and swallowing? Infant feeding support can help evaluate feeding skills and identify strategies that may make feeding more comfortable and manageable.
Explore infant feeding and suck retraining therapy for support with breastfeeding, bottle feeding, latch concerns, oral-motor coordination, and feeding challenges in the first stages of life.
Toddler and Pediatric Feeding Therapy
Is your toddler refusing solids, avoiding food textures, pocketing food, gagging, or becoming overwhelmed at meals? Feeding therapy can help assess age-appropriate eating skills, chewing, food exploration, oral-motor function, and mealtime routines.
Explore toddler and pediatric feeding therapy for help with picky eating, texture aversion, chewing concerns, difficulty transitioning to solids, and limited food variety.
Not Sure Which Type of Feeding Support Is Right?
You do not need to know exactly what is causing the problem before reaching out. If you are unsure whether your child needs infant feeding support or toddler feeding therapy, our team can help you determine the best starting point.
For concerns related to tongue or lip ties, visit our tongue-tie evaluation and therapy page. For tongue thrust or swallowing-pattern concerns, learn more about pediatric swallowing therapy.
Feeding Therapy for Families in Mequon and Milwaukee
Mequon Speech and Learning Connection supports families looking for infant and toddler feeding therapy in Mequon, Milwaukee, and surrounding North Shore communities. Whether your concern involves a newborn’s latch or a toddler’s relationship with food, the first step is understanding your child’s feeding skills and the support that may be helpful.
Get Guidance for Your Child’s Feeding Needs
Call 262-302-4166 or email office@mequonspeech.com to ask about scheduling an evaluation or to discuss which feeding service is the best fit for your child.
How do I know When to Bring my Infant or Toddler in for Feeding and Swallowing Services?
Signs of Infant Feeding, Nursing, and Toddler Swallowing Difficulties
*Difficulty latching onto the bottle or breast for infant feedings
*Clicking noise when nursing
*Pain with nursing/mastitis/cracked and bleeding nipples
*Duration of bottle feeds, breastfeeding, or mealtime exceeds 30 minutes
*Infant consistently pushes the nipple out from mouth or seems stressed out upon presentation of the bottle or during feedings.
*Moderate or significant liquid loss during bottle or breastfeeding
*Persistent poor weight gain, or weight loss
*Infant fatigues easily and cannot remain alert during bottle or breastfeeding
*Infant feeds frequently
*Difficulty transitioning from bottle or breastfeeding to solid foods
*Gagging, choking, or coughing prior to or during breast and bottle feeds or with liquid or solid foods during mealtimes.
*Colic and reflux
*Range of foods in repertoire is restricted to less than 20 different foods at 18 months of age or older
*Avoidance of entire categories of food types or textures
*Difficulty chewing foods, pocketing (holding food in cheeks) or spitting out foods
*Difficulty drinking liquids from an open cup by the age of 18 months
*Difficulty drinking from straws
*Persistently reported by parent as a picky eater
*Mealtime is very stressful for infant, child and/or parents; infant or child may consistently cry or ‘fall apart’ upon presentation of the bottle, breast or solid food.
*Difficulty transitioning to solids
*Difficulty with self feeding
*If your child was diagnosed with a tongue or lip tie.