An FYI for families and therapists who are facing struggles with feeding....
Dr. Markus Wilken, the gifted feeding specialist who came from Germany to help Heath become an eater, is now in private practice and collaborating closely with my great friend Jennifer Berry of Spectrum Pediatrics in Virginia. Markus will be employed through Spectrum to educate families and feeding therapists in the U.S. about intensive tube weaning and tube management.
Jennifer was Heath's first occupational/feeding therapist, before our move to Seattle, and her intuition, intelligence and compassion were immense gifts to our family when Heath was not yet ready for weaning. She and Markus will be a dream team!
If you are interested in obtaining an evaluation from Markus, you can contact him at: mail@markus-wilken.de. If you are a health care professional interested in setting up a continuing education workshop on intensive weaning and tube management, contact Jennifer at: jennifer@spectrumpediatrics.com
Good luck to all!
Wow, that is wonderful news, Jenny! It has really improved our life 1000% now that Asher is eating so well, thanks to the techniques Markus and others pioneered and that you coached me on so helpfully. :) There is so much idiocy in US methods of tube weaning these days it truly makes me want to cry sometimes.
Posted by: daphna | March 14, 2011 at 10:03 PM
Very, very nicely done!
Posted by: Kids Moncler Outlet | December 01, 2011 at 11:47 PM
I have a son who is on tube feeding in the UK and he is 2 months old
I don't think they have tube weaning system in the uk and would appreciate if I could get all the support needed to get my child off the tube
Posted by: Rashied | July 19, 2012 at 06:31 AM