Congratulations on your new bundle of joy! Is it joyful? What if your baby cries, fusses and isn’t feeding well? Perhaps you’ve tried breast and bottle-feeding without success. After talking to family ...
Dentists and lactation consultations have touted cutting babies’ “tongue-ties” for years, but the increasingly popular operation has little efficacy research to back it up, The New York Times reported ...
As any parent of a newborn can attest, one of the biggest challenges in your little one’s first days of life (aside from lack of sleep) is setting up feeding in a way that works for your family. For ...
OLD LYME, CT (WFSB) - A new study says “tongue tie” diagnoses in infants may be overdone and, according to one report, overtreated. Tongue ties are tissue that connects the bottom of the tongue to the ...
Procedures to fix tongue ties have skyrocketed as more parents breastfeed. Pediatricians say that there can be benefits, but tongue ties won't fix all nursing problems. Data on the efficiency of the ...
(Jade Brookbank via Getty Images) Newborns are known for being fussy: In those first weeks after birth, babies often struggle to get the hang of sleeping and feeding properly. But, while every new ...
Researchers from the Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN), Canada have developed a new referral process and Frenotomy Assessment Tool to determine the proportion of breastfeeding infants with TT ...
Tongue tie surgery involves separating the lining that connects the mouth to the tongue, known as the frenulum. It is a surgery to treat tongue tie, which is when the frenulum is unusually short or ...
Complications following a procedure to treat tongue-tie in babies are occurring that can result in admission to hospital, something a University of Otago paediatrician says needs to be better ...
Got a tongue? Then you may be interested to learn about tongue-tie, a condition that affects nearly five percent of newborns, according to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. It’s very likely that ...
Dr. Allie Lonneman is an award-winning pediatric dentist and founder of Arlington Tongue Tie Center, Arlington’s only practice solely dedicated to the treatment of tongue-ties and lip-ties in infants ...