Our story is very similar to so many others shared here. At our baby’s 6-week check-up, he was flagged for not gaining enough weight—despite being just 10 grams per week under the 150g guideline. That small difference sent us headfirst into the medical minefield. We saw everyone you could imagine—an IBCLC, paediatricians, and even a paediatric dentist for tongue and lip tie assessment and release. At 10 weeks, we were advised to stop breastfeeding and move to expressed bottles so we could “control” his intake. Unfortunately, that completely backfired. We were given an unrealistic volume goal that, to this day, he has never reached. We were told he wasn’t getting enough, that we needed to feed more often, and that we should physically support his jaw because he had a “lazy suck”—holding his cheeks and jaw while he fed. We were also told he had a severe tongue and lip tie that required laser release. Looking back, all of this led us to create a problem that didn’t exist before medical intervention. Following all the advice we were given, we began to pressure him to eat in an effort to help him grow. The tie release and the required stretches were incredibly traumatic for him and only deepened his feeding aversion. At one appointment, he was diagnosed with reflux based on him straightening his legs for “too long. ”. He dropped from the 15th percentile—where he had been tracking—down to the 2nd, became completely non-oral, and we found ourselves in hospital on New Year’s Eve for seven days, wondering how everything had gone so wrong when we had followed all the guidance we were given. Not long after leaving the hospital with an NG tube, and facing a follow-up with the medical team in four weeks, I found the book. I had no idea how to support our son or whether we might make things worse in that 4 week wait. I came straight here, found the tube weaning preparation, and booked in with Lindsay. To say Lindsay is a godsend is an understatement. She helped us understan...

This was the BEST money we've ever spent. Jenn is an amazing coach and I honestly cannot say enough good things about this program. We are in awe that our little girl is now eating happily on her own from the bottle, after 3 months of torture trying to figure it out on our own with no doctor really helping us. I'm so glad we made the investment.

It was an incredible transformation. Our 8 month old son Kyle was on an ngtube for about a month due to "failure to thrive", not feeding due to bottle aversion that had accumulated for several month and dropping on the growth curve which caused a lot of stress. We were considering to go for a gtube but found the tube weaning program and decided to try it before making the final decision and so glad we did. Lindsay prepared a detailed plan for Kyle and gave us plenty of support and guidance through the week which helped us correct our mistakes and mentality. It was tough at the start but saw amazing progress after 3 days and after a week when he pulled out his tube we decided to see how it goes and have not looked back. 2 weeks since then he has been wanting to drink through the bottle and willing to try different solids.

I can’t believe it’s actually our turn to write about our tube weaning experience. Our daughter, Kali, was born at 35 weeks and developed jaundice. Due to sleepiness, an NG tube was placed. We were told it would be short lived but she was ultimately discharged with the NG tube. Here we entered the medical maze for the next 3 months: reflux diagnosis and medications, tongue and lip tie release surgery, possible dairy allergy, feeding specialists, and there was even a question of neurological reason for inadequate oral intake. During this time, she was vomiting the large bolus feeds. She was so uncomfortable. I felt horrible every time we turned the feeding pump on. The medical professionals, as well-intended as they were, were not helping us much and we felt so stuck, alone, and desperate for help. I read about BCA after countless hours of scouring the internet for solutions. I knew Kali could eat - she didn’t want to - why? I read about feeding aversion and felt strongly this was it. I was told by our feeding therapist that Kali might be too young and it might be too intense for her - but I felt in my heart we had to do the consultation. We were paired with Lindsay for the tube weaning program. It was like finally talking to someone who “got it” and someone who believed in our daughter as much as we did. We found out Kali was being very overfed via the tube causing discomfort and lack of any true hunger. We also learned how much pressure we were putting on Kali to feed and we were all ready for change! The tube weaning process was challenging and emotional but we felt supported throughout the entire process. The first 3 days there was zero oral intake. She then took about 30ml on day 4. We were hopeful after seeing other success stories where they just “took off” but that wasn’t the case with our girl. She was a slow and steady learner. We ended up needing to cut additional calories to let her tune into her hunger. We first began seeing her behaviors drastically ch...

First of all I would like to say thank you to Jen, you are such a wonderful consultant. As I mentioned, you was like a mentor, who trained and help my mental became stronger. Your guidance teach me to understand what my baby truly needs and wants. It was a very pleasure to work with you for the past 1. 5 months. I was always so anxious during the tube weaning process, but your encouragement got me through that tough time. Thank you so much! We truly appreciate you Jen! For those who was thinking if the program worth it, I'm guarantee with you all, it is worth every penny! My baby now can oral feed up to 200 mls/ feed and falls to sleep independently. It only take 1. 5 months!!

Our sweet baby girl was born 1. 5 months premature and had been tube-fed from birth. In the beginning, she actually enjoyed feeding orally. But due to (1) a formula intolerance that was misdiagnosed as reflux and (2) extreme overfeeding recommended by our medical team, she began throwing up nearly every feed. Many diagnoses were thrown at us, but none felt right — and our lives became completely consumed by the NG tube. One night, I came across Rowena’s Bottle Aversion book and was shocked at how perfectly it described our baby’s behavior. It felt like this book understood her better than anyone on her medical team had so far. Soon after, I discovered Baby Care Advice and read every review I could find — just like you probably are right now. It seemed almost too good to be true, but I knew we had to try. From the very first meeting with Lindsay, I felt hope for the first time in months. She took the time to truly know our little girl — her personality, her quirks, her love for Taylor Swift. Lindsay even encouraged us to look at baby photos of ourselves, and we were stunned to realize that we were both naturally lean babies, just like our daughter. It became clear that her genetic predisposition to be petite was being over-medicalized, and that recognition was a turning point. The first few days of the program took nerves of steel. We felt antsy- but Lindsay was a calm and positive. Soon our little girl started feeding by mouth again. And then, one of the sweetest milestones of all — she began opening her mouth eagerly at the sight of her bottle, demanding we hurry up and feed her! My husband and I were in tears. Within two weeks, she no longer needed the NG tube. If you’re reading this feeling hopeless, please know there is a way forward. Our medical team told us our little girl would likely be tube fed until she was in kindergarten. Today, just a few short weeks into starting the program we get to watch our baby happily eat by mouth. Our path forward may not al...

We can’t thank you enough, Lindsay! Our 27 week premmie came home at 42 weeks, and after 12 weeks of being home from the NICU still relying 70% on an NG tube, we truly felt lost. The post-hospital feeding advice we received just wasn’t working for our little girl, it was all about overfeeding and force-feeding, which left us with countless tears, sleepless nights, and so much worry. Then I found Rowena, and through her, you. I took a leap of faith because I was willing to try anything, and I’m so glad I did. Some parts of the process felt daunting at first, but with your guidance and encouragement, and seeing all the other happy reviews, we pushed through. Only 12 days later, we were able to remove her tube. I still can’t believe it! Our baby now LOVES her bottles, and our whole family feels like we can finally breathe. Life feels easier, and more “normal”, we can actually enjoy feeding her and spending our days together without the stress of tubes and syringes. We are endlessly grateful. You’ve truly changed our lives.

Our story began when Eden was a month and a half old. She started nursing less and sleeping more. In addition to breastfeeding, she would take a bottle of milk formula once a day, but she began to completely refuse it. As a result, she was not gaining weight. We saw many doctors, none of whom diagnosed any medical issue, but they insisted on feeding her since she wasn’t gaining weight. Only about a month later, she was diagnosed with a dairy allergy and reflux, and she was given a suitable formula and reflux medication. But for her—and for us—it was already too late. We had already pressured her to eat, and she developed a bottle aversion. At two and a half months old, because she wasn’t eating enough, she was hospitalized and a feeding tube was inserted. It is important to note that every professional we met—doctors and nurses alike—said she behaved like a healthy baby, but they couldn’t understand why she wasn’t returning to normal feeding, and so the tube feeding had to continue. We were discharged from the hospital when Eden was three months old, with the feeding tube in place, and we were trained to manage it at home. As the weeks went by, she refused bottles completely and was fed almost exclusively through the tube. Around five months of age, we began offering her solids, but that didn’t go well either. She only took a few tastes, nothing more, and continued to refuse the bottle. Time passed, and we found ourselves feeding a perfectly healthy child exclusively with a tube for nearly six months. And then, miraculously, we heard about Lindsay and Rowena and began the process. Lindsay’s program was designed to wean her off the tube and back to the bottle, even though she had refused the bottle for five months and was already nine months old. We were very afraid it wouldn’t work—but like magic, we saw daily improvements in her response to the bottle, until she was fully bottle-fed again. It was simply unbelievable! We want to thank Lindsay for her close gui...

Our daughter was hospitalised at just 3 weeks old with bronchiolitis, rhinovirus and poor weight gain which ended up with her being tube fed. We were bottle feeding and topping up with the NG tube, which eventually was removed as she got better. Fast forward a few weeks later, due to pressuring on our end to take more and more, we ended up with a severe bottle aversion and headed back to hospital where another NG tube was placed. Our LO ended up completely coming off bottles and we went home with training to feed through an NG tube even though all tests done showed that she was physically capable of taking a bottle. After a week of feeling hopeless and frustrated, I read Rowena's book and found this website. We decided to book a consultation with Lindsay and I'm so glad we did. Within a few days, our LO went from not even taking a bottle to finishing 2-3 oz bottles per feed. She eventually took the NG tube out herself and we haven't looked back. I couldn't recommend Lindsay or this program enough. I'm so grateful for all the guidance and help we received. It has given us our bubbly happy baby back.

Preemie baby success story - Our baby was born at 28 weeks and spent 4 months in the NICU before coming home with an NG tube. She was taking 50-60% orally when she went home, but at around 6 weeks adjusted she started associating her choking and spit ups to the bottle and developed aversion. At around 3 months adjusted, we still had no concrete plan on how to help wean off the tube even though we were working with SLP, GI, and dietitians. We signed up for this program with Lindsay, and within 3-4 days she started taking more by volume, and by day 10 we were able to take her tube out! As risk averse parents it was stressful at times but so worth it to see our baby happily eating her bottles now! Lindsay was amazing throughout the process - she knew how to guide us, had a wealth of knowledge and recommendations, and gave us the tough love we needed to trust our girl in self regulating her feeds. We are still monitoring her weight to make sure she keeps gaining after the program, but 2 months later and we are proud to say our girl is happy, healthy, and eating well! Thank you Lindsay for giving us the tools to help our baby succeed!!

Words can't even express how happy we are with this program. Our son was born at 29 weeks and is currently 5 months old and had an NG tube since birth. When we first introduced the bottle at 34 weeks gestation he was taking it well but gradually he became more and more adverse until eventually he was taking zero from the bottle and relying exclusively on the Ng tube. Feeding was very difficult and stressful. My husband and I had a consultation for a g tube and we both just felt it wasn't the right option for us so we looked for alternatives and came across baby care advice. We immediately signed up for the tube weaning program. We were very anxious and hopeful at the same time. After day one with Lindsays support our son started to drink from the bottle again! Within 6 days we removed the Ng tube and by day 10 he was taking above his recommended intake. I was very apprehensive and had my doubts but I was pleasantly surprised with how amazing the results were. I would highly recommend this program to any parent considering the program.

By the time we booked our pre-tube wean consultation with Lindsay we were lost. Our only aim was to get through each day and although we didn’t know it, we were like lots of other parents of NG tube fed babies in a cycle of overfeeding and vomiting. We didn’t picture our son without the NG tube. We had spoken to different teams and professionals from the hospital including dietitians, SALT, cardiac nurses and most of the advice we were given was prescribing antiacid medication like Gaviscon and Omeprazole and to persevere. Our baby was diagnosed with a Congenital Heart Disease (TOF with absent valve), and while initially breastfed, due to his condition, he gradually became more tired and we were advised by our Dietitian to introduce high calorie milk, initially one bottle, then this increased to the point he was only on high calorie formula, and we spent about one week basically forcing our child to finish the required amount of milk needed for him to gain sufficient weight for the surgery and in hindsight this is where our problems began. Our son refused to have the bottle pretty quickly and an NG tube was placed and we were faced with projectile vomits every feed, sometimes directly after, sometimes an hour or so later. We tried slowing the feeds which could take up to an hour and he would still vomit, we tried everything and gave him the recommended medication but nothing worked. We were at breaking point when at four months old our baby caught RSV, pneumonia and various other respiratory infections which involved a three month plus hospital stay. During his hospital stay, our son went on invasive ventilation for about two weeks and then had to have bi-pap respiratory support for another two months or so, until his surgery. After his open-heart surgery, both heart and respiratory issues quickly improved and after about 2 weeks, he didn’t really need any respiratory support and the cardiac consultants were happy with the heart surgery outcome. However, our son ref...

My son was born weighing 1. 4kg and was diagnosed with Russell Silver Syndrome. He was in the NICU for the first 57 days of his life and was tube fed from birth due to his size and needing to build his skills and stamina. Over time he developed some bottle feeding skills while also being fed his fortified formula through his tube. He came home with the tube and at 3. 5 months was showing signs of a feeding aversion and was having issues with ongoing vomiting, requiring reflux medication. This continued until the point where he stopped bottle feeding altogether and even the sight of his bib or being moved into the feeding position caused a severe reaction of screaming and throwing himself backwards. It was a very stressful and distressing situation and all the feeds became full of anxiety for myself and my son. I first contacted Baby Care Advice for support with my son's feeding aversion and we completed the Preparation Tube Weaning Program with the support of our consultant Lindsay. This program helped me to identify that he was being overfed in an effort from his medical team to try and increase his growth. I was also able to better understand his cues and to teach my son that I would listen to him and trust him to feed from the bottle without pressure. Within a week, there were huge signs of improvement with passive feeding experiences even though his milk intake was minimal. Working on his feeding aversion turned feeding times from stressful to enjoyable for both of us. Following the preparation program, we moved onto the Tube Weaning Program. By this stage, my son had been tube fed for 4 months. While I continually raised with his medical feeding team that my son was not taking the bottle and that he had no reason to as he never felt hungry, I was told to continue and he would learn to take the bottle. Not accepting this response as I believed my son was capable of bottle feeding, I booked the consultation with Lindsay. It took him a little while to connect...

We are so grateful for the work that Lindsay did for our family. She listened to our concerns, made us feel validated, and created a plan to help get our boy eating again. We can safely say this program was life changing for our family. Our lives revolved around monitoring our son's weight, tube feeding him, and trying to make sure he wouldn't throw up what he was tube fed. 4 days into the pre-tube wean our son let the bottle into his mouth and about 5 days into the tube wean he was taking all feeds by mouth and his feeding tube came out shortly after. Pediatricians and gastroenterologists typically do not know bottle aversions are actual problems let alone know how to solve them. There are no other resources around us that we know of that tackle this issue and Lindsay delivered. We are so thankful for Baby Care Advice and looking forward to family life that does not revolve around tube feeds.

We are so grateful we found Lindsay and Baby Care Advice. It was the perfect fit for our family. Before finding Baby Care, our family felt very lost as what to do. Why wouldn’t my tube fed baby drink her bottle? How was she ever going to get off her tube? Would we have to do surgery and give her a G Tube? I scoured the internet and found this program and it truly felt like we had found something that resonated with us. Not only was this program more affordable than other programs, but they placed an emphasis on the relationship between caregiver and baby with trust being the main piece. Coming from the NICU, it was all about the numbers. How many grams she’d gain, how much milk and fortification she needed. But we never really keyed into how we were building a positive relationship with food. We didn’t know how pressure could affect our baby’s view on food as well as learning the importance of a positive food experience for her. So sure enough we gave it a go! First try, we learned so much. But our non-oral baby still would not take a bottle. But we learned so much and felt that as a family we made so much progress. We decided to pause and try again a few weeks later and continue practicing. We felt unsure this would ever work. When we decided to try again our baby at this point about six months corrected. Sure enough, it worked!! It took a lot of patience… but our baby began eating again and the tube came out eight days after we started the program. We truly feel so grateful that we found this program. What is unique about this program is the combination of hunger + behavioral. These two components help create the environment for a baby to eat and more importantly, thrive. If you are reading this and are skeptical, I want you to know that Lindsay was responsive, dependable, and her guidance was truly appreciated. I should also mention that we received a step by step guide on everything we’d need to know which was extremely helpful to us before and during the wean. ...

I can’t thank the Baby Care Advice program enough, especially Lindsay, for her support and guidance during our baby’s tube-weaning process. My son is an ex-24-weeker, now 11 months adjusted. He had been tube-fed for almost his entire life. He wasn’t very interested in the bottle that I offered him before his tube feeds, but I assumed he just wasn’t ready yet. We followed the instructions from the GI team to feed him eight times a day, and we were happy to watch him grow each day. I wasn’t too concerned about the tube feeding until recently, given all the medical challenges he had faced: lung issues that required him to be intubated for two months, two major abdominal surgeries, and two eye surgeries due to retinal detachment. There were times when he vomited frequently, which made me extremely nervous around his feeds. The doctor said it was due to reflux and prescribed some medication. I tried to keep him on his back with his head elevated while feeding, but it became increasingly difficult as he became more active, especially since tube feeds typically lasted for more than an hour. I then tried feeding him more when he was sleeping, as that seemed to help reduce vomiting. However, I started to feel like something wasn’t right, but I couldn’t figure out what. I worried that he could become dependent on the tube and might not be able to eat like a typical child if we continued feeding him this way. Luckily, I came across a post in a preemie group that mentioned Rowena’s book and the program. I quickly researched it and felt hopeful after reading more. I booked a consultation for the tube weaning program which I’m happy that I did. My son was ranked at level 3 for a successful tube wean. On the first day of the program, he only consumed 55 ml orally. However, by the end of the first week, he was taking about 300 ml. That number continued to rise to 450 ml by the end of the second week and now 600 ml by the end of the third week. Although he lost some weight, I’m hop...

Our story through a Pre-tube weaning and a full Tube weaning program! I can’t believe that now it’s my turn to tell our story! Just a few months ago, I was still in desperate thoughts and didn’t see a light at the end of the tunnel 🥹 A little of back story My daughter, Zoey, was born at 30week+1day with sudden water broke at 2am! Luckily, her birth was quick and smooth. And then BOOM! at 3 days old, she needed to be transferred to another hospital for an urgent stomach surgical operation. Being a preemie and going through a surgery definitely affected Zoey’s health and her ability to nurse/ take bottles. She stayed in NICU + an extended time in Pediatric Unit for 3months. She went home with an NG feeding tube, taking 90% of the feeds orally. We followed a feeding plan with certain volume needed per day and increasing every week. After a few days, her oral intake started to drop. After a week, she became >90% dependent on the feeding tube. I was so worried, following different FB pages of feeding tube and then found out this page and Rowena’s book. As I finished the book and read all the posts, comments of successful stories, I wanted to apply it for Zoey right away (she was around 2month adjusted then). However her pediatrician was not convinced and thought she was too young to try a method based on hunger. I was so desperate because she became 100% dependent on the tube. She had projectile vomits almost every daytime feeds. She slept mostly on her stroller because of the vomits. Her tube feeds stretched so long each time, 45min-1hr because she couldn’t keep the whole volume in 1 go. The sessions with feeding team couldn’t help. My whole day just went around her, feeding, cleaning, trying to keep her sleep… I was at the lowest of my life. I felt so bad for my husband and toddler as I had to be with Zoey all the time and hardly able to do anything else. We didn’t have time as a family at all! Finally when Zoey was around 3month old adjusted, I could persuaded he...

Our story through a Pre-tube weaning and a full Tube weaning program! I can’t believe that now it’s my turn to tell our story! Just a few months ago, I was still in desperate thoughts and didn’t see a light at the end of the tunnel. A little of back story My daughter, Zoey, was born at 30week+1day with sudden water broke at 2am! Luckily, her birth was quick and smooth. And then BOOM! at 3 days old, she needed to be transferred to another hospital for an urgent stomach surgical operation. Being a preemie and going through a surgery definitely affected Zoey’s health and her ability to nurse/ take bottles. She stayed in NICU + an extended time in Pediatric Unit for 3months. She went home with an NG feeding tube, taking 90% of the feeds orally. We followed a feeding plan with certain volume needed per day and increasing every week. After a few days, her oral intake started to drop. After a week, she became >90% dependent on the feeding tube. I was so worried, following different FB pages of feeding tube and then found out this page and Rowena’s book. As I finished the book and read all the posts, comments of successful stories, I wanted to apply it for Zoey right away (she was around 2month adjusted then). However her pediatrician was not convinced and thought she was too young to try a method based on hunger. I was so desperate because she became 100% dependent on the tube. She had projectile vomits almost every daytime feeds. She slept mostly on her stroller because of the vomits. Her tube feeds stretched so long each time, 45min-1hr because she couldn’t keep the whole volume in 1 go. The sessions with feeding team couldn’t help. My whole day just went around her, feeding, cleaning, trying to keep her sleep… I was at the lowest of my life. I felt so bad for my husband and toddler as I had to be with Zoey all the time and hardly able to do anything else. We didn’t have time as a family at all! Finally when Zoey was around 3month old adjusted, I could persuaded h...

I came across baby care advice in a forum for micro preemies. Our son, Henry, was born at 24 weeks. After a 5 month NICU stay, filled with multiple infections, a host of problem areas to follow up on and a diagnosis of moderate BPD, Henry came home with just an NG tube. He was taking more and more volumes by mouth in the NICU, and the team felt he would progress steadily at home, as he was above 50% by the time of discharge. We come home, and within a few days, volumes drop to 20%. He begins arching hard to the side when feeding. We see his hospital SLP, we hire a private SLP, we see an ENT about a tongue tie (that only 1 of the SLPs is worried about. ) We start him on Pepcid, then nexium. His hospital SLP starts talking about a G tube at a follow up appt. I’m starting to freak out and am determined to find options. He starts developing torticollis and starts PT, so we think maybe that’s contributing to arching? Talking to his GI, ENT, SLP providers, PT, OT, no one can give us a plan or even specific things to try to help Henry feed independently and get off the tube. I read Rowena’s book on aversions, and we try to implement the golden rules at home, but have slim success. I read about the tube weaning program and figure it’s worth a shot! We were willing to try anything to avoid the G tube. We scheduled a consultation with Lindsay, which was a 2 hour thorough intake, complete with videos we had sent her at that point. Immediately, we started to feel reassured. From her questions, to her observations about the videos, we could tell she knew what she was talking about. We discussed his medical history, and our concerns about whether his BPD is impacting his feeding ability. Lindsay told us she thought we could get Henry weaned in 2 weeks and feeding independently. I was hopeful but quite skeptical. The first 12 days were up and down, first volumes plummeted, then started to improve, then we had a couple of days of some refusals and confusing feeds. Lindsay was th...

Hello, My baby girl, Leavey, began losing interest in feeding when she turned 8 weeks old. Until then, we were unaware of her deletion. We had to place an NG tube, which she relied on until she was 6 months old. However, she started developing severe eczema on her face, making it difficult to keep the tube in place. Seeing her struggles, I started researching ways to wean her off the NG tube. She was never at risk of aspiration or other issues—she could drink and latch, but her low muscle tone caused her to tire easily. Through my research, I discovered a group of people who specialize in helping NG tube-fed babies. It was truly a Godsend. It wasn’t easy, but after 15 days, Leavey was back to taking her bottles. While we still face some challenges with her intake amounts, she is thriving and developing beautifully. We had Lindsay helping us through the whole process. Initially, I thought, “None of these success stories involved babies with chromosomal issues,” but I’m so glad I didn’t let that stop me from trying! Only after we did the weaning the geneticist said, we are glad you did!