Dr. Christine L. Kan, OTD, OTR/L, IBCLC, is an occupational therapist who is passionate at helping parents breastfeed their medically complex infant. She specializes in lactation, reflux & food allergies, lip and tongue ties, and infant feeding therapy. She graduated from the University of Southern California with a doctorate in occupational therapy in 2013, focusing on feeding interventions for children with special needs. She is trained in Beckman Oral Motor Protocol, Infant and Pediatric Neurodevelopmental training (NDT), Neonatal Oral Motor and Assessment Scale (NOMAS), Neonatal Touch and Massage Certification (NTMC), and has her advanced practice in feeding, eating, and swallowing (SWC). She currently works part time as a neonatal occupational therapist in the NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) and part time in private practice. She is the NICU therapist at San Gabriel Valley Medical Center in San Gabriel, CA and Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys, CA.

 

Dr. Christine Kan is an international board certified lactation consultant (IBCLC) and an infant feeding specialist. She has experience helping premature infants, medically fragile infants, and infants with tethered oral tissues breast/bottle-feed. She has feeding experience with cleft lip/palate, down syndrome, clavicle fractures, failure to thrive, torticollis/plagiocephaly, cardiac and pulmonary diagnoses, neonatal abstinence withdrawal, and autism.

 

Her children both had lip and tongue ties and she understands the stress of ties and how it impacts breast/chest-feeding. Her middle child also has multiple severe food allergies, asthma, and eczema. She hopes with her own personal experience and medical training, she can connect with parents, share their burdens, and support their breast/chest-feeding relationship. Christine has 3 children and is currently tandem nursing her toddler (3 yo) and infant (1 yo)!