Britt Pados, PhD, NNP, IBCLC
Founder, Infant Feeding Care
Clinician, Researcher, Author, Educator & Mom
Clinician
Britt Pados is a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP), International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), and Certified Trauma-Informed Professional. She has worked as a neonatal nurse (Beth Israel Deaconess, Boston, MA) and nurse practitioner (Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, New York, NY) in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). She has also completed the “When Baby Can’t Suck” course by Food Smart Kids, TOTS: Tethered Oral Tissues Specialty Training by Chrysalis Orofacial, and the Starting Solids Foundations course by Solid Starts. She currently provides clinical care to infants and families in her office in Wellesley, MA. For more information about clinical services, click here.
Researcher
Britt completed her PhD in 2015 on feeding in infants with medical complexity, particularly infants born premature and with congenital heart disease. Her experience as a clinician caring for infants has directly guided her research. She is a Fellow of the American Heart Association. Learn more about her research here.
Author
Britt has published over 80 articles on feeding and gastrointestinal symptoms in infants and young children, has developed assessment tools for feeding and gastrointestinal symptoms, and has done research on flow rates from bottle nipples.
Educator
Britt frequently speaks at professional conferences on feeding in infants and young children. She was previously on faculty in the School of Nursing at Boston College and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. She currently offers classes for professionals related to feeding.
Mom
Britt is a mom of 3 young children, including a set of twins who were born premature and a daughter who refused all bottles. She is also the proud aunt of an infant born at 28 weeks. Her experiences as a mother and aunt of babies requiring NICU care has motivated her passion for trauma-informed care. She is married and lives with her family in Massachusetts.
Press
Decoding Neonatal Challenges
Caring Essentials Collaborative with Mary Coughlin
Mary Coughlin has a deep conversation with Britt Pados, a respected neonatal nursing professional.
The conversation offers insight into thoughtful changes in neonatal care and the significant influences these practices have on a baby's development.
Bottle Flow Rates and Choosing the Right Bottle
The Birth Lounge with HeHe Stewart
In this episode of The Birth Lounge Podcast, HeHe sits down with Brit Patos, founder of Infant Feeding Care, to clear up one of the biggest feeding myths out there: that all bottles are basically the same… they’re not.
Together, Brit and HeHe break down why bottle-feeding is not one-size-fits-all, and how factors like nipple flow rate can make or break both feeding safety and your breastfeeding relationship.
Infant Feeding: All Things Bottles, GIGER, and Allergies
First Bite: Fed, Fun, Functional SLP Insights with Michelle Dawson, MS, CCC-SLP, CLC, BCS-S, FNAP
Michelle Dawson sits down with Britt Pados, an expert in infant feeding and a globally recognized leader in infant bottle-feeding. Together, they unpack the realities of infant feeding for both bottle- and chest-fed babies and the many factors that can shape feeding success.
Britt shares the story behind her influential research on bottle flow rates and why understanding flow still matters so much in clinical practice today.
As Featured In
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The Informed SLP
There are many reviews within Informed SLP that include my work, including ‘Give a “dam” about the flow rate’ and ‘High Flow: where do we go now?’
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Consumer Reports
If your breastfed baby won’t take a bottle, you’re not alone
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Care.com
How to make a bottle of breast milk: A step-by-step guide
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Wirecutter by The New York Times
The best baby bottles and bottle brush
