We are told that breastfeeding is the most natural way to feed your baby, but when things are not going well, they can feel very unnatural, frustrating, discouraging and upsetting. Unfortunately, natural doesn’t always mean easy. When breastfeeding isn't going well, it is incredibly common to wonder why.

It makes sense to wonder if your baby might have a tongue tie.

As a pediatric physical therapist and certified breastfeeding specialist who specializes in infants with breastfeeding difficulty, I’m here to tell you YES, or maybe NO. Unfortunately, the honest answer is: it's complicated. Let’s dive in.

Baby’s First year isn’t always as magical as new parents expect it to be. Let’s discuss why and what we can do to help.

Why the First Year Can Feel So Overwhelming

• Too Much Information, Not Enough Reassurance

• Conflicting Messages About Development

• A Lack of Real Ongoing Support

What Actually Helps Parents in the First Year

• Gentle, Play-Based Guidance

• Clear Context Around What’s Normal

• Permission to Trust Yourself

• Connection With Other Parents

Mobility, strength, and coordination—are foundational to physical therapy and apply directly to breastfeeding as a functional outcome. By addressing an infant’s underlying physical challenges, infant physical therapy can play an important role in achieving a successful breastfeeding journey.

Pediatric Physical Therapists with additional tongue tie training are licensed doctors who work with infants impacted by tongue ties and oral movement dysfunction. They optimize quality of life by maintaining, restoring, and improving an infant’s ability to move their whole body (including their tongue), function (eat, sleep, and play) and live a more active lifestyle (achieve motor milestones).

Crawling is a huge motor milestone. Let's take a deeper look into all that your baby needs to achieve before learning to crawl, and when to expect those first movements on hands and knees.

I recently studied to become a Certified Breastfeeding Specialist. Read along to hear about what was included in my training, and how this will help me be a better infant physical therapist.

Infant Physical Therapists address torticollis, plagiocephaly, milestone delays, breastfeeding challenges, and body/oral tension related to tethered oral ties (TOTs) or “tongue ties.”

Does your baby have a not-so-round head shape? Read here to learn about the different types of plagiocephaly, its causes, and how physical therapy can help.

Finding out that your baby has torticollis is scary. It doesn’t help that this diagnosis has such a scary name: torticollis. What is torticollis? How did my baby end up with it? What can I do about it? These are the questions I hope to answer for you today.

As a new parent, I’m sure you have heard about how important it is to do tummy time with your baby. But, has anyone explained WHY it is important?

If you are like me, you like to know the WHY behind things…let me help you with this!