“My baby isn’t gaining weight.” “She won’t take the bottle.” “Breastfeeding is painful, am I doing something wrong?” These are some of the questions and comments posed by mothers in breastfeeding ...

These are some of the questions and comments posed by mothers in breastfeeding support groups, online forums, and in the waiting rooms of pediatricians' offices. Often, the first advice mothers get is ...

"We need to have careful strategies to properly assess, manage and discuss with parents so they can make the best decisions," says Dr. Casey Rosen-Carole Kate Hogan was Director of Digital Specials ...

Mothers struggling to breastfeed are benefiting from a simple outpatient procedure to fix an easily missed ‘tongue-tie’ condition that could be preventing their newborns from feeding properly, ...

The Atlantic: "Why So Many Babies Are Getting Their Tongues Clipped" — "It’s uttered in hushed tones during mommy-and-me yoga classes and at Montessori-school drop-offs, discussed ad nauseam in ...

Kirsten Shepanski was confused when the lactation consultant offhandedly told her that her newborn son, Brey, had "tied tongue." The first-time mother soon saw how a membrane limiting the movement of ...

Tongue-tie is more than a just a metaphor for stumbling over your words. It’s an actual oral condition that can impact many things from breastfeeding to your airway, from speech to dental health.

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