Weaning with NoTube – Our Success Rate
We have been making use of our time recently to reevaluate our tube weaning success rates. 97.2% of Netcoaching participants and 94.7% of Eating School participants were fully weaned and able to sustain themselves orally at the end of the program.
Coronavirus & Tube Weaning – Supporting children in learning to eat in COVID-19 quarantine times
We currently find ourselves in an extraordinary situation. To help to get through this complicated time, we would like to offer some tips for managing daily challenges that you may find yourself confronting. This includes how to master day to day life in a way that provides ongoing support to your child in continuing to improve their eating skills.
10 years anniversary
What began 30 years ago as a revolutionary treatment method, led to the founding of NoTube 10 years ago and now to the establishment of an officially recognized outpatient clinic. In this blog post, you will find the milestones of our evolution
“One, two, three, eating can be trouble free” – Eating therapy for children without a feeding tube, a case study
In this article, discover a case study and learn more about how our method is working with children who suffer from eating disorders but do not have a feeding tube.
Seven crucial points parents should know when choosing a tube weaning program
Your child is you tube fed and you are looking for a tube weaning program. Many different resources and approaches can be found in the internet and many information found can be confusing. We have collected some crucial advice and important criteria for parents, who seek help for their tube-fed child.
Eating makes a lot of Sense! – The sensory experience of mealtime
Mealtime is a multisensory experience. Let’s take a closer look at the specific sensory properties that influence our mealtimes to better understand how multisensory input might be influencing the mealtime experience of children.
NoTube’s reputation: myths and facts
Despite years of proven clinical expertise and an exceptional publication activity, the NoTube method is sometimes still criticised and inaccurately viewed. We want to respond to the most common rumors and misunderstandings that we have heard about NoTube’s reputation.
The weight war – battling with numbers
By children who were born with an illness or abnormality and/or who exhibit an eating problem or who are fed with a feeding tube, every day is defined by numbers – the child’s weight is measured several times a week, the calorie count of the enteral nutrition is calculated, the quantity of each meal is measured out.
Chocolate pudding and Apple Juice – Picky Eating as an early childhood feeding and eating disorder
What about children whose food repertoire becomes limited to fewer than five options and who, after weeks or even months, can’t allow for even the smallest alterations?
How tube weaning impacted my child’s development
From a developmental perspective, eating is an integral part of sensory and motor development. Children that are tube fed and do not eat orally miss out on some opportunities to work on certain skills while eating, potentially delaying their motor, socio-emotional and language development.