Solving Latching Problems: A Reflexive Approach with Avery Young, M.S., M.Ed, IBCLC

Join us Oct 5th 7 pm PST via Zoom to learn from Avery Young! Check back for registration details coming soon! Bio: I’m a board-certified lactation consultant (IBCLC) and educator with over two decades of experience spanning clinical lactation care and science education. My work centers on the reflexive intersection of latching mechanics, oral motor function, and nervous system regulation—especially how these systems shape feeding outcomes in complex or unexpected cases.

Over the past decade, I’ve pioneered a reflex-first approach to feeding support, creating tools and strategies that help clinicians better assess and respond to challenges with latch, function, and feeding competency.

With a background that bridges the classroom and the clinic, I focus on making complex feeding systems easier to understand—through clinician training, international lectures, and accessible, parent-centered education.

OBJECTIVE 1: Identify the reflexes infants use during the latching process

OBJECTIVE 2: Understand how to use the reflexive process to identify the origin of latching problems

OBJECTIVE 3: Use a reflexive lens to understand and support 3 common latching problems.

Solving latching problems is one of the primary roles of a lactation consult, and yet understanding and supporting infants with latching problems can feel challenging and frustrating, even for seasoned professionals. In this 60-minute webinar, you’ll learn how looking at latching and feeding problems from a reflexive perspective can help you more easily understand and support struggling dyads, and why using a reflex-based approach is important to helping to support the development of an infant beyond just latching.