Category: Baby Bridge

Baby Bridge: Supporting the Journey Home

Bringing a baby home from the NICU is a milestone filled with both joy and uncertainty. Without the constant support of hospital staff, many families wonder how they will confidently care for their baby’s unique needs. That very gap in support became the focus of research led by Occupational Therapist Bobbi Pineda, Ph.D., OTR/L, CNT […]

Meet Timothy: Patient Success Story

Timothy is a creative, organized five-year-old with a huge imagination! He loves dinosaurs, Minions, and Sonic! Congratulations to Timothy and his family on his exciting progress. When therapy first started, Sheri treated him twice a week, and one of our biggest goals was to increase flexibility, transitions, and self-help skills. At the beginning of treatment, […]

Meet Koda & Kali!: Patient Success Story

Koda and Kali are twins that made their grand entrance into this world thirteen weeks early and spent almost five months in NICU before being released to go home with their mother. While in NICU, they struggled with oral feeding and gaining weight, so they had g-buttons placed to assure they received the necessary nutrition […]

Meet Rylee: Patient Success Story

Rylee, the little rascal, met her therapist friends after coming home from a long hospitalization. Life in the NICU is hard, so when Rylee was discharged, she had a lot of ground to cover to catch up on all the things she missed in the first couple months of her life. Luckily, she was a […]

Meet Mateo: Patient Success Story

Messy-mouthed Mateo hasn’t always had a messy mouth when eating, as he had to rely on a g-tube to meet his nutritional needs for the first part of his life. After spending some time in NICU, he was able to go home with his family with diagnoses of oral-pharyngeal dysphagia, pediatric feeding disorder, and plagiocephaly. […]