Tag Archive: formula

bond with your baby while tube feeding

Four Strategies to Bond with Your Baby While Tube Feeding

Even though you may not be able to feed your child as you planned, you can still comfort and bond with your baby while tube feeding.

Shield HealthCare Nutrition Team

Understanding Recent Changes to the Nutrition Facts Label

The FDA has mandated a nutrition facts label update by July 2021. This will be the first update since nutrition labels were first introduced in 1994.

Sarah Sanchez, NDTR
Tetra Pak

Storing and Using your Tetra Pak® Formula Containers

Formula manufacturers are using Tetra Pak containers for enteral formulas instead of cans. Click here to learn how best to store and use these products.

Aimee Sharp
Breastfeeding

Why Brazil Loves Breastfeeding

In this article, originally published by The Atlantic, learn about Brazil's policies that promote breastfeeding for the women of the country.

Aimee Sharp
Tips for formula safety at home

Tips for Keeping Your Tube-Fed Patients in the Home

Here you'll find a list of suggestions for helping keep your tube-fed patients safe by following these practices. Find other tube-feeding resources as well!

Amy Long Carrera, MS, RD, CNSC, CWCMS
Tube Feeding

Tube Feeding: How to Gravity Feed

When using a feeding tube, knowing how to gravity feed, where Formula flows out of a feeding bag and into your feeding tube by gravity, can be important.

Amy Long Carrera, MS, RD, CNSC, CWCMS
GERD in infants and children

Tube Feeding: What Do I Do When My Child is Vomiting?

Vomiting can be one of many tube feeding complications. Learn why it may be happening, what you can do to mitigate it, and find tips on when to seek help.

Amy Long Carrera, MS, RD, CNSC, CWCMS