Andrea Robbertse Lactation and Feeding Therapy

13/09/2025

Science fact: Self-controlled practice protects perceptions of competence and enhances motor learning! Discover how autonomy transforms feeding therapy outcomes in our upcoming LIVE course, Responsive Feeding: Review of the Evidence and Application to Therapy on Sept 18th. This course will cover the neuroscience behind RFT!

Register here: https://course.getpermissioninstitute.com/courses/rft-review-of-evidence-live

22/08/2025

All those "just try one bite" moments? They might be creating the opposite effect we want. Pressure disconnects children from their own hunger cues and creates external motivation instead of natural curiosity.

06/08/2025

Food before one is NOT just for fun!

While milk remains a baby's main source of nutrition until a year of age, eating solids successfully before then is important for several reasons:

1. Solids provide crucial additional micronutrients (e.g. iron). 🥦

2. Eating and chewing are learned skills. Children need opportunities to practise these oral-motor skills with different textures and consistencies. 👄

3. Sensory exploration is needed to help prevent texture aversions and picky eating. Exposure to different tastes, smells, and texture, particularly in a baby-led manner, goes a long way in creating healthy eating habits. 👍

Feeding therapy can address concerns with introducing solids, difficulty transitioning to different consistencies, picky eating, food aversions, difficulty chewing, pocketing food, etc.

Reach out with questions or concerns! 📞📧💬

04/08/2025

Such an interesting on hypoglycaemia in newborns for World Breastfeeding Week!

03/08/2025

🌞🌙 Lighting Matters: How Day–Night Cycles Support Your Preemie’s Growth

Your baby’s environment in the NICU isn’t just about safety and equipment; it’s also about light.

Research shows that cycled lighting, with soft daytime brightness (~200 lux) and dim nighttime (

01/08/2025

Join us tomorrow for another Free WBW conference presentation!

2 AUG: Sofia Moutzoures - Transitioning From the NICU: A Speech Therapist’s Perspective

LACSA online conference
1-7 Aug 2025

Not Registered Yet?
- Go to lacsa.org.za
- Tap on green Log In link on top right hand corner (even if you are a LACSA member you still need to register on the site)
- Sign Up with your email, google or facebook

Access a talk
Each talk is available for 1 day only starting at 6 am from 1-7 August. Join us for a live Q&A Friday 8 August at 09:00
- https://www.lacsa.org.za/conference2025
- Navigate to correct day by tapping on presentation icon

A helping hand
For technical difficulties please do not hesitate to message:
- LACSA webmaster Katinka katinka@katinkabreastfeeding.com or +263784921717

01/08/2025

SACLC Conference underway 🤱

01/08/2025

It's Breastfeeding Awareness Week!

27/07/2025

Amazing!

26/07/2025

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Never forget, tube feedings are mealtimes too! Mealtimes are about connection. You can help families feel connected to their child, even if they are using a tube for nourishment.

Curious to know specific strategies? Take our Master Course: The Get Permission Approach to Tube Feeding with Love! This month only, the course is $100 off.

The course is structured for online self paced learning, with 2 live nights of interaction with Marsha and Karen!

Check out more on this course here:
https://course.getpermissioninstitute.com/courses/hybrid-get-permission-approach-to-tube-feeding-with-love-aug-2025

22/07/2025

Well done to ! These types of signage and policies can make families with young children feel more welcome and comfortable with breastfeeding while out and about.