Michele MeehanMichele Meehan, a paediatric, maternal and child-health nurse has been employed as the clinical nurse consultant at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne for over 29 years. In working with babies and their parents in the hospital, her work develped from advising mothers about their sick baby's feeding to an increasing interest in understanding why some babies have more difficulty in establishing normal routines of feeding, eating, sleeping and comforting than others. Michele's involvement with the Infant Mental Health Group at Royal Children's Hospital was from its inception in 1988, and this now reflects in all her work. In 2008 Michele completed her master's in Health Science (Parent and Infant Mental Health) at Melbourne University, with a minor thesis entitled, He Won't Eat! Development of a model for treatment of infant feeding refusal. She has presented at international forums and is frequently called on to be a speaker at national nursing and health care conferences. In 2014, Michele established a clinical nurse consultation practice called Parenting Matters. (parenting-matters.com.au) Her clinics have direct contact with the families of referred babies, to assess, advise, manage and follow-up feeding and eating concerns. Read More Read Less