Connected Feeding

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We carefully developed our nfant® Tracker App to train parents how to read feeding cues, assess their baby’s needs, determine nipple flow rate, choose the right feeding position and time daily feedings. Combining the biofeedback data collected by our Thrive Smart Bottle with the step-by-step guidance in our nfant® Tracker App is the most complete way to adopt a Connected Feeding routine for your baby. However, you can find detailed guidance, feeding tips and other educational materials about C…

At its core, our Connected Feeding program rejects the idea that babies should adhere to predetermined feeding schedules or one-size-fits-all approaches. Our program teaches you how to identify and interpret your baby’s natural feeding cues so you can devise and implement a feeding routine that is fully customized to your baby’s needs. Read more about Connected Feeding.

You may have heard the terms cue-based, infant-led or demand feeding. These are different terms to describe the same type of feeding approach that lets a baby’s needs and cues determine when feedings happen, how long they last and how much milk is consumed, among other variables. At nfant® we coined the term Connected Feeding to describe our feeding program that takes this same cue-based feeding approach to the next level. We do more than teach parents and caregivers how to identify, recognize…

Connected Feeding is what we call our unique feeding program that educates parents and caregivers how to identify, recognize and respond to baby’s feeding cues with the added help of biofeedback data collected by the nfant® Thrive Feeding System. The basis of this feeding approach is letting your baby’s hunger cues determine when they are ready to feed, as opposed to feeding babies on a predetermined or rigid schedule. It also means paying close attention to a baby’s cues during feeds to deter…