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BREAST & BOTTLE Feeding
TONGUE & LIP TIE SUPPORT
BODY WORK
TRANSITION TO SOLIDS

From trouble latching or swallowing and transitioning to solids, our feeding experts provide compassionate care to help your child or baby thrive and give you peace of mind.

Breast & Bottle Feeding Tongue & Lip Tie Support Transition to Solids

Our Services

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Feeding Support in Babies with a Speech Pathologist

Feeding challenges in babies can feel overwhelming, but you don’t have to navigate them alone. Our speech-language pathologists (SLPs) specialize in helping infants feed safely, comfortably, and effectively—whether at the breast, bottle, or during the transition to solids.

 

We provide:

  • Latch support for breastfeeding and bottle-feeding, with strategies to reduce colic, reflux, gagging, or discomfort.

  • Pre- and post-care for tongue and lip ties, supporting healing and improved function.

  • Transition planning from NG tubes to oral feeding, helping babies build strength and confidence.

  • Guidance for starting solids, making new textures and tastes a safe and positive experience.​

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Our team partners closely with families, offering practical tools and reassurance at every step. The goal is simple: help your baby thrive with safe, stress-free feeding while giving you confidence and peace of mind.

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Tongue/Lip Tie
Signs and
Symptoms

  • Consistent clicking noise during feeds, indicating a repeated loss of suction

  • Inefficient, long feeds resulting in exhaustion and frustration

  • Leaking of milk from sides of mouth from a poor latch

  • Air intake due to a disrupted seal leading to reflux/colic symptoms and gas pain

  • Snoring

  • Open mouth breathing 

  • Wakeful sleep

  • Tongue rests low in mouth/out of mouth

  • Nipple pain/damage due to a shallow latch

  • Bouts of mastitis

  • Decreasing milk supply

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Physical Therapy

Feeding is a whole-body activity. Babies rely on balanced muscle tone, posture, head and neck control, and comfortable movement to feed efficiently. When tension, movement restrictions, torticollis, or body asymmetries are present, they can contribute to challenges with breastfeeding, bottle feeding, reflux-like symptoms, head turning preferences, and overall feeding comfort.

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Our pediatric physical therapist specializes in evaluating and treating infants from birth through the first year of life. Using gentle, evidence-based, hands-on techniques and developmental interventions, we help improve mobility, alignment, posture, and movement patterns that support more efficient feeding and healthy motor development.

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Physical therapy may be recommended before or after a tongue or lip tie release, or whenever feeding concerns are accompanied by body tension, torticollis, plagiocephaly (head flattening), developmental asymmetries, or delayed motor milestones. We work closely with our speech-language pathologists and your baby's healthcare team to provide a collaborative, whole-child approach that supports both feeding success and early development.

Get in Touch

37 Kensington Parkway

Abingdon, MD 21009

443-617-4890

info@mybrainbuilders.com

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