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BREAST & BOTTLE Feeding
TONGUE &
LIP TIE SUPPORT
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.

Brain Builders Bel Air HarfordTongue Tie

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

3

Occupational Therapy Assessment

Frequently, tongue and lips ties are accompanied by limitations in range of motion, tense or lax body tone, torticollis, sensory motor difficulties, and asymmetries in physical development.

 

An occupational therapist can assist with bodywork pre and post frenectomy surgery and assist with tolerance being held, transitioning from being held to crib, self-regulating and reduce fussiness, tummy time, and massage.

Get in Touch

37 Kensington Parkway

Abingdon, MD 21009

443-617-4890

info@mybrainbuilders.com

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