The Good Latch OT

About Me

I'm an OT with over 40 years experience working with infants and families in Western MA. I am a certified lactation counselor, feeding specialist and certified educator of infant massage and love working with new families in learning to fall in love with their baby! Infant feeding, lactation and bottle feeding should not be difficult! I like to break down the steps to help parents find ways to help improve their baby's self regulation and get their child onto a good healthy relationship with feeding!

I use a responsive feeding approach, provide lactation support and believe in paced bottle feeding. I specialize in infant suck training and the functional evaluation and treatment of oral restrictions and teach parents about the importance of airway health, suck training and jaw/tongue stability! 

I also specialize bodywork with treating infants with body tension, torticollis and positional plagiocephaly. I utilize the Gillespie Approach of craniosacral fascial therapy to decrease body tension and improve feeding, stooling and development.  I coach parents through a routine based model and use a neurodevelopmental approach to help each individual baby attain their milestones! 

I am excited to meet you!

*Gillespie Approach to Craniosacral Fascial Therapy (bodywork)

Feed the Peds Trained (12 week intensive feeding course including evaluating for TOTs)

*The Professional Guide to Tongue Tie Expert trained, other course work from Lisa Paladino includes Understanding Milk Supply

*Torticollis trained by Karen Karmel Ross *Infant Massage USA trained 

*Modified Baby Led Weaning  and BLW trained *Healthy Children Project CLC trained

*SOS Approach to Feeding Therapy Trained *Beckman Oral Motor Therapy Trained

*Lactation OT coursework (The OT's Role in Breastfeeding, Bottle Feeding Skills, Failure to Thrive and Suboptimal Weight Gain, Dysphagia and the Breastfeeding Infant)

*Diane Bahr  Best Practices in Pediatric Feeding, Motor Speech and Mouth development/Function Trained