24 pages | Ages 0–3+ months | Includes tips for babies with medical complexities
Does feeding feel harder than it should?
Your baby fusses, pulls away or falls asleep halfway through a bottle. Feeds drag on, end in tears, or leave you both worn out. You’ve tried new bottles, new positions and new schedules, and you’re still not sure what’s going on.
Often, it comes down to balance. In the first three months, one of a baby’s biggest jobs is learning homeostasis: keeping breathing, heart rate, temperature and digestion steady. When your baby’s body feels off balance, sucking, swallowing and breathing are harder to coordinate, and feeds get harder too.
There is a gentler way.
The Balanced Baby Guide shows you how to help. You’ll learn to read your baby’s cues and use 8 gentle, research-backed methods to help your baby arrive calm, stay organized during feeds and rest well afterward.
What’s inside:
Part 1: Understanding Your Baby. Homeostasis, your baby’s calm chemistry, the four building blocks of a calm feed and how to read your baby’s cues.
Part 2: Calm Feeds. What throws feeds off balance, and six calm-feed basics, including paced bottle feeding.
Part 3: Babies With Medical Complexities. Why balance matters even more, and where to find support.
Part 4: 8 Gentle Methods. Skin-to-skin, babywearing, your scent, voice and song, faces and eye contact, touch and movement, floor play, and calm for you, each with what to do before, during and after a feed.
Part 5: Putting It Together. A printable calm-feed checklist and when to reach out for support.
Teddy bear tips on every method page for babies with medical complexities, at home or in the hospital.
Every strategy works whether you breastfeed, bottle feed or both. By the end, you’ll have simple, calming routines that help your baby feel safe, settled and ready to feed.
Want a closer look first? See what’s inside the guide →
Curious about homeostasis? Read the blog post →
Created by Argie Karakalpakidis, MS, CCC-SLP, TSSLD, CLC.
Instant digital download (PDF) for personal use. This guide shares general information and isn’t a substitute for individual care from your pediatrician or feeding specialist.
24 pages | Ages 0–3+ months | Includes tips for babies with medical complexities
Does feeding feel harder than it should?
Your baby fusses, pulls away or falls asleep halfway through a bottle. Feeds drag on, end in tears, or leave you both worn out. You’ve tried new bottles, new positions and new schedules, and you’re still not sure what’s going on.
Often, it comes down to balance. In the first three months, one of a baby’s biggest jobs is learning homeostasis: keeping breathing, heart rate, temperature and digestion steady. When your baby’s body feels off balance, sucking, swallowing and breathing are harder to coordinate, and feeds get harder too.
There is a gentler way.
The Balanced Baby Guide shows you how to help. You’ll learn to read your baby’s cues and use 8 gentle, research-backed methods to help your baby arrive calm, stay organized during feeds and rest well afterward.
What’s inside:
Part 1: Understanding Your Baby. Homeostasis, your baby’s calm chemistry, the four building blocks of a calm feed and how to read your baby’s cues.
Part 2: Calm Feeds. What throws feeds off balance, and six calm-feed basics, including paced bottle feeding.
Part 3: Babies With Medical Complexities. Why balance matters even more, and where to find support.
Part 4: 8 Gentle Methods. Skin-to-skin, babywearing, your scent, voice and song, faces and eye contact, touch and movement, floor play, and calm for you, each with what to do before, during and after a feed.
Part 5: Putting It Together. A printable calm-feed checklist and when to reach out for support.
Teddy bear tips on every method page for babies with medical complexities, at home or in the hospital.
Every strategy works whether you breastfeed, bottle feed or both. By the end, you’ll have simple, calming routines that help your baby feel safe, settled and ready to feed.
Want a closer look first? See what’s inside the guide →
Curious about homeostasis? Read the blog post →
Created by Argie Karakalpakidis, MS, CCC-SLP, TSSLD, CLC.
Instant digital download (PDF) for personal use. This guide shares general information and isn’t a substitute for individual care from your pediatrician or feeding specialist.
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