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Supporting Your Baby’s Feeding Journey
What we do know is that eating doesn’t just happen. In the womb, the fetus is continually smelling, tasting, sucking, and swallowing the amniotic fluid. By the time he is full term he is an experienced and coordinated eater.
When premature infants are born these enjoyable oral experiences stop and due to their immaturity, they will be tube fed. However, the premature brain will continue to develop and make connections to both positive and negative oral experiences.
The Milk Drop Method was created to provide consistent positive enjoyable oral experiences to help the infant wire the association of hunger to the pleasure of eating and the satisfaction of feeling full.
Every little drop— every little moment—makes a big difference.
How We Support Your Baby
Familiar Comfort – Your parents will wear two scent hearts, bringing them back to place near your face. Their scent is soothing and reassuring.
Positioning for Success – After care, we’ll gently place you on your side or in skin-to-skin contact with your parents, keeping your hands near your face so you can self-soothe by sucking on your fingers.
The Power of Skin-to-Skin Contact
Whenever possible, we encourage parents to hold their baby skin-to-skin.
This provides incredible benefits:
✔️ Keeps baby warm
✔️ Stabilizes heart rate
✔️ Improves breathing & oxygenation
✔️ Increases sleep time & weight gain
✔️ Reduces stress & crying
✔️ Boosts milk supply
✔️ Strengthens bonding between baby & parents
Testimonials
Dad of 24 weeker-now 35 weeks:
"I love to watch him take his milk
drops. His oxygen levels are at
their best when he is getting
those drops of milk."
Mother of 25 weeker now 32 weeks:
"When my baby kangaroos
– she is not happy until she is
cradled at my breast. I know that
milk drops are a big part of this."
Mother of 27 week twins – home at 37 weeks:
"My babies are
coming home exclusively
breastfeeding – just what I had
hoped for."
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