Milk to Mealtime
Specialist Infant Feeding Practice

Specialist care for babies with bottle aversion and feeding difficulties, grounded in the CALM Bottle Method® and tailored to your baby.

Is your baby struggling to feed?

At Milk to Mealtime, we understand your reality. We get that every offer of the bottle is met with refusal, distress and anguish. You are tracking volumes to the millilitre as you watch the numbers drop because you are so worried about them.

You've tried so much and still can't believe this is happening.

The bottle now controls how your day unfolds and how you feel. You can't imagine how this will ever get better.

But we know it can, with the right expertise.

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Why Families Choose Milk to Mealtime

The expertise feeding like this deserves.

Led by Laura Bottiglieri, Infant Feeding Expert and Speech and Language Therapist, The Infant Feeding Practice was founded on one belief. Feeding is one of the most fundamental ways we care for our babies. Every family deserves to feel the joy and connection it brings.

Infant feeding is an advanced specialism within the field of speech and language therapy. Bottle aversion is a specialism within that. The CALM Bottle Method® was created to offer families the way out of bottle aversion using over 12 years experience working in the field.

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Families facing feeding challenges deserve more than endless reassurance and generic advice. They deserve answers, expertise and a clear path to resolution.

Care shaped around your baby's feeding story

Every baby arrives at bottle aversion by a different road, so Milk to Mealtime offers three signature packages. Each is grounded in the CALM Bottle Method® and matched to where your baby is right now, from early signs of bottle refusal to aversion rooted in a medical start. What changes between them is the depth of care your baby needs. What stays the same is the destination: calm, connected feeds and feeding that becomes background noise in your family life again.

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Milk to Mealtime Specialist Infant Feeding Practice