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In this week’s episode of Tube To Table, Jennifer and Heidi are giving our listeners a brief history of how the Thrive by Spectrum Pediatrics Tube Weaning Program started. They will discuss what brought them together as therapists and how their interest in feeding therapy and tube weaning first started.  You can download this episode from Itunes, Stitcher, Spotify, […]

What can you do while you’re getting ready to wean? This week’s episode focuses on what you can do to help your child become a happy and healthy eater while they are still tube-dependent. This includes building in rest, play, and taking a step back from anything that could be harming your child’s initiation and […]

Welcome to the Tube to Table Podcast! This is the podcast about helping tube fed kids become happy and healthy eaters. Every week, we will dive into the basics of tube weaning to help unravel the conflicting information families get from doctors, therapists, friends, and family. In this episode, you’ll get to know your hosts, […]

Meet Mighty Maggie: Maggie struggled with eating since birth, receiving an NG tube when she was born and eventually a G-tube. Initially, her feeding tube helped save her life, however, once her medical status became stable it was no longer necessary. Maggie’s family sat down with Thrive by Spectrum Pediatrics to share her journey from […]

“My child isn’t eating dinner!”, “He refuses dinner and only wants snacks”, “Will he be okay if he doesn’t eat dinner?” These are all questions and concerns we have heard from loving parents who have a toddler who has refused a meal, or two. Before discussing strategies for how to help this behavior, it is […]

We are so excited that the founder of our Thrive by Spectrum Pediatrics feeding division was featured on The Comfort Food Podcast with Virginia Sole-Smith and Amy Palanjian. Virginia Sole-Smith is the author of one of our favorite new books, The Eating Instinct. Amy is the founder of Yummy Toddler Food, a parent blog that […]

By: Jennifer Berry, MS, OT/L and Heidi Moreland, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, CLC Many parents of children with feeding tubes wonder how soon they can begin the tube weaning process.  Even when parents believe their children are showing signs of interest or readiness, their medical teams often advise them to wait.  The doctors’ belief is that the […]

We are featuring two “Good Reads” for February that we hope you will find helpful. Each month, we will post a few articles, books, or resources that we find helpful and often recommend to families. Extreme Picky Eating: Essentials of Helping a Child with Extreme Picky Eating Our friends over at Extreme Picky Eating, created […]

Often times, parents of tube-fed children report that it is difficult for their child to participate in holidays that have delicious treats such as Valentine’s Day or Halloween. Yes, of course, Valentine’s Day is full of yummy chocolate and candies, but there are so many other ways your child can participate! It is crucial for tube-fed […]

It’s Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) Awareness Week! We wanted to share some stories of children we have seen at Thrive who are all CHD Warriors! Max. Emrie. Theo.What do all of these names have in common? They were all born with congenital heart defects and needed a feeding tube to survive. The feeding tube was […]

By: Evie Morse, Age 11, Feeding Superstar Most kids can quickly be born and start eating grown up foods, but not me! My mom was very sick. The doctor demanded that she should have me now, and she’d survive. It was the only way. So I was born early, but it was worth it! I […]

Virginia Sole-Smith, author of the Eating Instinct and contributing editor for Parents Magazine is the author of both of our recommended reads for January! The Eating Instinct: Virginia Sole-Smith recently published her book, The Eating Instinct, where she talks about the focus on food in our society and how food often feels dangerous when it should feel safe. Virginia […]