Navigating Infant Feeding and Overcoming Breastfeeding Challenges

Dr. Pados is a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant, and Certified Trauma-Informed Professional at Infant Feeding Care in Massachusetts. She provides care to infants who are struggling with breastfeeding and bottle-feeding difficulties. She also owns Infant Feeding Labs, an independent lab that tests flow rates of infant bottle nipples/teats. Her research has focused on feeding infants and young children, including those with medical complexity, assessment of feeding disorders, and gastrointestinal symptoms. She’s a mom of three, including a set of twins who were born prematurely and a full-term baby who experienced bottle-feeding aversion.

Gloria has been practicing Maternal and Child Nursing for 31 years and became board-certified as a Registered Lactation Consultant following a challenging breastfeeding journey with her own child. As Director of Lactation Services for East Tennessee State University Health, she provides prenatal and postpartum lactation consults as well as clinical rotations for resident physicians in the OB and Pediatrics departments. Gloria advocates for risk-appropriate lactation care with a focus on prenatal preparation for the infant feeding journey and speaks nationally on these topics. Her vision statement is, “If mom’s ok, everybody’s ok.” Her mission statement is, “Make mom ok.”