Feeding Aversions
Raising awareness for those battling feeding aversions by telling Adler's story.
This line was inspired by the lack of awareness out there for a battle my daughter and I have been facing for the last 7 months. My daughter was diagnosed with a Cow Milk Protein Allergy as a newborn and she developed a bottle aversion and refused all feeds. I stumbled upon dream feeding, and that was the only way I fed her for months of her life. The idea of a PJ line came from the play on dream feeding. She now is averse to solids as well and it’s a constant battle. Medical professionals are stumped and she is in therapy weekly. For a long time, I felt completely alone in this battle with her because she would only allow me to feed her once she began to feed willingly. It’s a heartache that I don’t want others to experience or go forward completely clueless as we were.
During the peak of her bottle refusals, she couldn’t be soothed and would simply cry herself to sleep. At some point in our journey, I noticed a light bulb go off in her little head when I began to sing “The Five Little Speckled Frogs” or when she would hear it on Alexa. She would stop crying and just listen. It was then our go to move to calm her down during a refusal or when she was upset. It worked like a charm and that is why my first pattern was inspired from that song to promote awareness for all those battling feeding aversions.
Noone understood until they witnessed a feeding attempt.
