What we help with

“She sleeps with her mouth open.”

A baby who breathes through their mouth, rests with their lips apart or tires quickly at feeds is often working around a mouth and jaw that aren’t doing their job yet. Using BabyMyo™, we help your baby breathe through their nose, open up the airway, strengthen the jaw and keep their mouth closed at rest, awake and asleep.

It’s for babies and toddlers up to 2 years with tongue ties, mouth breathing, feeding trouble or low oral tone. We evaluate and treat hands-on in the clinic, then give you short exercises to do at home so the new skills stick.

“Tummy time is nonstop screaming.”

Crying during tummy time is your baby telling you something. Using the TummyTime!® Method, we show you how to roll your baby into and out of tummy time at a pace they can handle, so they build strength and trust with you.

“His head is getting flat on one side.”

A flat spot usually has a cause, like a side preference, neck tension or a tongue tie. If that cause is still there, the head often won’t round out on its own. We look for what’s driving it and work on it hands-on.

Helmets usually aren’t fitted before 4 months. When we see a baby before then, we can often shorten the time in one, and in some cases avoid it altogether, depending on severity. Older babies still benefit: when a helmet is needed, our goal is to shorten the time in it.

“He only turns his head one way.”

A baby who only turns one way is showing tension, or full torticollis. We gently release that tension and teach you simple ways to help your baby turn both ways on their own.

“She tenses up at the breast or the bottle.”

Tension at feeds, painful nursing, a shallow latch and clicking can come from a tongue tie or a buccal (cheek) tie, or from low muscle tone that makes your baby’s body work harder to feed. Only a doctor or dentist can diagnose a tie, but we assess the whole picture and help. We also help with the move from breast or bottle to solids.

• Timing of the release: timing a frenectomy with your little one’s development matters. We look at posture, oral motor skills, airway and facial development, and overall function to help you and your provider choose the right time.
• Before the release: we reduce tension, improve how far the mouth can move, and strengthen the muscles used for feeding and breathing.
• After the release: the procedure frees the tongue, but your baby still has to learn to use it. Without that practice, babies often fall back on old feeding habits, which raises the risk of the tie reattaching. We teach the new pattern.
• Low tone: when muscle tone is low, the tongue tires out during a feed, so your baby recruits other muscles to make up for it. That extra effort is often the tension you see.

“She isn’t rolling yet.”

Babies usually explore rolling around 4 months. A baby who isn’t rolling by 6 months has a reason. We find it and work on it through gentle hands-on therapy and play.

Light, hands-on techniques we use throughout our infant work to ease deep tension in the head, neck and body. For babies with torticollis or a flat spot, this supports natural alignment and more balanced movement, so motor skills can develop evenly.