About me

I’m Laura Bottiglieri, a Speech and Language Therapist and Paediatric Feeding Specialist with over a decade of experience working at the most complex end of infant feeding and dysphagia.

Families come to me when feeding has begun to dominate daily life. When the bottle is met with resistance. When distress becomes woven into every feed. When confidence thins and instinct no longer feels like enough.

My work centres on bottle aversion and feeding distress - the point at which feeding becomes guarded, protective, and emotionally charged. This is precise, delicate work. It sits at the intersection of physiology, regulation, skill, and relationship.

Over years of clinical practice, one truth became impossible to ignore: feeding shifts when safety, capacity, and trust are restored at the point of feeding itself.

From that work, I developed the Calm Bottle Method™ a signature framework shaped through years of close clinical work with babies experiencing bottle aversion and feeding distress.

Qualifications and Clinical Registrations

BSc (Hons) Speech and Language Therapy
HCPC Registered
RCSLT Member
Specialist experience in Paediatric Feeding and Dysphagia
MSc Healthcare Management
Cervical Auscultation
Neonatal and Infant Feeding & Dysphagia

The Calm Bottle Method™ is the method I developed from all these years in clinical practice and the latest evidence base; it’s the framework that underpins all of my work with bottle aversion and feeding distress.

It was shaped through direct clinical practice and the evolving evidence base. It reflects the patterns, protective behaviours, and shifts I have observed repeatedly in babies whose feeding became guarded after painful, overwhelming, or dysregulated early experiences.

Rather than challenging refusal directly, the Calm Bottle Method™ reshapes the feeding experience itself so that safety, predictability, and capacity return together.

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The method weaves together:

• Feeding mechanics and pacing

• Nervous system regulation

• Trust between baby and parent

• The emotional environment surrounding feeds

• The physical realities of how a baby feeds

This is a relational, physiological, and developmental method that allows feeding to reorganise at its core so resolution can form.

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The Calm Bottle Method™

How I Work

Feeding draws on far more than hunger alone. It reflects physical skill, sensory experience, emotional safety, and the relationship held within every feed.

My work brings structure to that complexity. I analyse how feeding is unfolding in real life, identify what is holding it in its current pattern, and apply the Calm Bottle Method™ in a way that is steady, contained, and sustainable.

This work is paced.

It is intentional.

It is led with precision.

My work does not stop at the bottle. Feeding patterns in infancy shape how children move into solids, textures, and shared meals. I support families through that full transition - from bottle aversion and early refusal through to confident participation at the table. The same principles of safety, pacing, skill, and trust carry forward into mealtimes so progress holds across every stage of feeding.

Whether I am working with families directly, supporting professionals, or contributing to collaborative projects, my focus remains unchanged: to create the conditions where feeding can settle and stabilise in a way that lasts.

What I Bring

Specialist Clinical Experience

Over a decade of experience in paediatric feeding and dysphagia across both typical and complex developmental pathways.

Creator of the Calm Bottle Method™

The Calm Bottle Method™ is the unique, highly successful framework I developed through sustained clinical observation, refinement, and outcome-led practice.

Whole-Family Perspective

Feeding reflects sensory, oral-motor, emotional, and relational factors. Every recommendation is shaped to your family rather than applied as a template.

Responsive, Individual Strategy

Every plan evolves as feeding shifts, always led by the baby in front of me, where you are at as a family and nurtured through integrity.