FirstStages Feeding Specialists

05/22/2026

✨ NEW PEDIATRIC FEEDING PROVIDER TRAINING ✨

🎥 On-Demand, 1.5 Hours
📚 Provider Handouts Included
🧠 PDH/CEU Certificate Included

A practical infant feeding overview course for providers (SLP, OT, PT, IBCLC, RD, MD and more!), and truly a STEAL for the amount of information included.

This course, ✨ Nurtured Feeding Approach™ | Infant Feeding Success™ , introduces the foundations of the Nurtured Feeding Approach™ and gives providers practical, evidence-informed tools they can immediately begin applying in clinical practice.

Ever wonder if percentiles should really be our golden standard of pediatric feeding success? Why intake goals for infants often seem so high, and why so many infants struggle to comfortably achieve them?

We answer some of these questions through the lens of the Nurtured Feeding Approach™ framework, while exploring how feeding patterns, regulation, cues, growth expectations, and the feeding relationship all impact infant feeding success.

Come see why so many providers are loving this framework and its approach to pediatric infant feeding. ✨

Inside the course:

✔ Responsive, cue-based feeding
✔ Breast & bottle refusal foundations
✔ Early contributors to feeding aversion
✔ Ni**le flow rate & suck-swallow-breathe coordination
✔ Intake, growth, kcal/kg/day considerations
✔ Realistic feeding expectations & patterns
✔ Parent stress, pressure, and the feeding relationship
✔ Feeding as a relationship, not simply intake

✨ Includes provider handouts designed as:

• Clinical cheat sheets
• Parent education tools
• Quick-reference feeding guides for real-world application

The course also introduces the philosophy and application behind the:

• FirstSTAGES Age & Evidence-Based Guide™
• FirstSTAGES Feeding Calculator™
• FirstSTAGES Tools for Your Toolkit™

These resources help providers and families better understand:

🤍 Realistic intake and growth goals
🤍 Why relationship and following cues are foundational to feeding success
🤍 How ni**le flow impacts coordination and regulation
🤍 How peaceful, connected feeding is possible with the correct guidance and feeding patterns

Many providers have shared:

“I’ve never heard this information explained this way before.”
“I wish I learned this years ago.”
“This changed how I think about feeding.”

That’s exactly why we created this on-demand training, so providers can pause, revisit concepts, and begin building a stronger framework for infant feeding analysis and intervention.

✨ PLUS:

• Lunch & Learn case series already happening, it’s not too late to join and access recordings, infant and toddler applications of the Nurtured Feeding Approach™ are available, including weight gain, aversion, reflux, allergen triage, and more
• Mentoring opportunities available
• Full comprehensive Infant Feeding Success™ provider course currently in FINAL edits 👀

✨ Please note:
All participants are required to sign an NDA prior to participation in order to help protect the proprietary educational framework, tools, handouts, and intellectual property of the Nurtured Feeding Approach™.

This Infant Feeding Success™ Provider Overview Course is the perfect place to begin your journey into infant feeding success through the lens of the Nurtured Feeding Approach™.

https://courses.firststagesfeeding.com/products/courses/infant-feeding-success-provider-overview

Infant Feeding Success™ an evidence-informed and relationship-based lens so you can feel more confident supporting infants and families!

01/12/2026

Lunch & Learn Case Series | January–June 2026

Real cases. Real families.
Evidence-informed clinical reasoning that restores regulation, trust, and feeding confidence.

Join us for a 6-session Lunch & Learn Case Series offering an inside look at real infant and toddler feeding cases—walked step-by-step from assessment through discharge using the FirstSTAGES Nurtured Feeding Approach™.

🕛 Live 1-hour sessions | Tuesdays or Fridays | 12:00–1:00 PM EST

📅 2026 Dates
Jan 27 • Feb 20 • Mar 24 • Apr 17 • May 19 • Jun 12

🎥 Can’t attend live? All sessions are recorded and shared 1–2 weeks post-event.

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Why This Series Is Different

This is not a checklist or protocol.
It’s a way of thinking that changes how you assess, intervene, and advocate.

✔️ Root-cause analysis and differential reasoning
✔️ Feeding pattern interpretation (not symptom chasing)
✔️ Data-guided decisions beyond percentiles
✔️ First-step interventions that restore regulation and feeding skill
✔️ Avoids premature escalation to fortification, reflux meds, or procedures

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Clinical Topics You’ll See in Real Cases

• Feeding aversion (assessment → intervention framework)
• Poor weight gain (gain/day & kcal/kg/day analysis)
• Reflux and allergen differentials
• Tongue-tie within a full feeding differential
• Back-to-breast transitions
• Solids progression and early feeding skills
• Liquid-only to chewing transitions
• Intro to tube-fed case considerations

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Registration Options

🌟 Lunch & Learn Membership — $150 (Value $240)
✔️ Access to all 6 live sessions + recordings
✔️ 10% off a full FirstSTAGES course or mentoring
✔️ Bundle price increases to $175 after January 20

👉 EI Therapists:
Email [email protected] with subject “$25 off code” (valid through Jan 20)

OR

Single Session Registration — $40
Includes access to one Lunch & Learn only

⚠️ Important: To access all six sessions, you must register under the BUNDLE MEMBERSHIP OPTION.

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Important Notes

• NDA acceptance required prior to registration
• Case-based application (not a replacement for the full course)
• Feeding Calculator is demonstrated only and included with full course or mentoring
• Access to all series content is available through July 30, 2026
• PDH Certificate: 1.0 non-affiliated PDH per session

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👉 Register before January 20 to lock in the $150 rate.

Access to all 6 live on-line (recording available) Lunch & Learn case sessions (6 hours). 10% off any full FirstSTAGES course OR 10% off individual or group mentoring package.

04/11/2025

🚨Pediatric Feeding Disorder (PFD) Course You Won't Want to Miss This! 🚨

📣 Calling All Feeding Professionals

✨ Nurtured Feeding™ Approach: Holistic Considerations for Problem-Solving Infant & Toddler Feeding Challenges

🗓 May 1-2, 2025 | 🕘 9 AM – 4 PM EST |
🌐 Location: Live Online

🌱 What You’ll Learn:
Day 1 Infant Feeding & Day 2 Toddler Feeding
Assessment and intervention for:
👅 Tongue and lips ties
✔️Aversion, picky eating
⚖️Poor weight gain
🍎Chewing difficulties, throwing food, not transitioning to solids
👶Bottle breast and more!
🤱 Breastfeeding challenges, triple feeding maternal burn- out solutions
🍼Select correct ni**le flow rate to optimize SSB
🛝Deep dive into symptoms & root causes
🪜Discover first steps to intervention
🔣 Methods to address parental fears & anxiety
😮‍💨Analysis of airway, GI, allergens and more
🙌 Evidence and age-based guide: feeding patterns, duration, frequency, ni**le flow, growth & intake

⭐️ You won’t find this info anywhere else! ⭐️

💡 You’ll leave this course with tools to help parents calmly navigate feeding challenges, address fears/anxiety, and optimize long-term success.

🎓 CEU Credits: 12.0 PDH
Nurtured Feeding™ Approach certificate
💰Cost: $400 for both days (Earlybird Discount Available until 4/15/25!) EXTENDING TO 4/21/25- Don't Miss OUT!

💵 Use code “FSFS400” for Earlybird Savings. After 4/21/25 price increases to $450

🤝 Group Discounts Available! Email me at [email protected] for more details or if you're interested in 1-day vs 2-day.

🌟 About Your Instructor: Ann Marie Presberg - Martinez is a pediatric speech and language pathologist and feeding specialist with 25+ years of experience, founder of firstSTAGES Feeding Specialists, and developer of the Nurtured Feeding (™) Approach. Her clinical experience includes Early Intervention (EI), hospital NICU, PICU, in & out-patient settings, and private practice. Ann Marie specializes in common and medically complex feeding cases birth to teen. She resides in Herndon, VA with her husband and five lively boys. She lectures nationally on pediatric feeding disorders with a warm personality, wealth of knowledge, passion for evidence-based methods, and responsive feeding principles, restoring peace and trust back into the parent-child relationship around feeding.

✋ Don’t wait—sign up today and transform your approach to pediatric feeding!

📩 Have questions? Feel free to reach out directly. We hope to see you there!

09/29/2024

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My instagram post for my Infant & Toddler course. Click www.firststagesfeeding.com for more details. Calling all pediatric feeding therapists to come join us! Early bird special ends soon!! Thanks in advance for helping me to spread the word. We dive deeper into symptoms and root causes of the feeding challenge to determine the best first steps to intervention and peace, for the child and parents!



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09/20/2024

Diane Bahr love her work! Thanks for all you do for our profession.

New Podcast Episode Out Now! 🎧 Episode 32: "Adenoids, Tonsils, Diet and Gut Health" with Dr. Soroush Zaghi, MD

Dr. Zaghi a Harvard Medical School graduate, known for his extended training at Stanford and the Breathe Institute, discusses the comprehensive treatment of sleep disordered breathing and tongue tie disorders in children and adults

The conversation delves into the importance of evolving medical practices, such as focusing on root causes rather than just treating symptoms with medications. Dr. Zaghi emphasizes the significance of diet, gut health, and holistic measures in addressing health issues, particularly in children

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09/20/2024

We can help you navigate those tough infant & toddler feeding cases!

🍼Don’t know what bottle and ni**le flow to choose? We can help build your skills, confidence, and most importantly help YOU to empower parents with responsive feeding techniques!

👶 want to learn how to navigate those transition to solids and picky eating cases? We will teach you key first steps, how to match foods with oral motor skills, and how to teach parents skill development.

⚖️ confused by infant and toddler weight trends and intake requirements? We’ve got you covered!

💕 we’d love to have you!

✅ October 18-19 in-person (Virginia) and October 28-29 on-line. 10 hours of learning!

💰catch our earlybird special- www.firststagesfeeding.com

09/18/2024

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Come join us! Calling all feeding professionals- let’s learn together and build your feeding toolkit with critical thinking skills to tease apart a differential diagnosis and best steps to intervention for bottle, breastfeeding & toddler feeding challenges. We are here to arm you with tools to solve those cases and help parents find peace and confidence in knowing how to respond to their infant and toddler. Parents often tell me… “in one meeting you changed our world from hopelessness and fear to peace and understanding.” Parents often feel like failures when they struggle to feed their child, so let’s bring back the peace and bonding in the parent-child relationship. Hope to see you in-person (VA) or on-line!

October 28, 2024 @ 8:45 AM - 11715 Bowman Green Dr, Reston, VA 20190, USA