I have been an Occupational Therapist specializing in feeding therapy for over 15 years. I started specializing with complex infants and toddlers admitted to the hospital for feeding tubes, all the way to helping babies eat better in the NICU so that they could go home. I earned my lactation credentials over 10 years ago to better assist my families who were breastfeeding. When my oldest son was born in 2016, he had an unexpected NICU stay that was short however very traumatizing. After I returned to work, I had a hard time returning back the NICU right away therefore I transitioned to working with babies and toddlers on the outpatient setting. In this setting, I was able to work more closely with other specialized providers such as breastfeeding medicine and was able to specialize into working more closely on improving oral motor skills, navigating oral ties, and implementing more bodywork skills to help baby overall move better so that they could improve their feeding skills. I became more aware of specialists providing in home services, and it made so much sense to be able to provide these services especially to newly postpartum families, as well as families with siblings or busy schedules in the in home setting, where everyone is so much more comfortable and scheduling is more flexible.