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Tongue Ties & Lip Ties: Do These Affect Baby's Ability to Self-Feed? with Dr. Shaina Holman, DDS, PhD

What tongue ties are and why experts don’t always agree on treatment routes
How having a tongue tie does - and does not - impact your baby’s ability to breastfeed, bottle-feed and eat solid foods
Why babies who have had tongue tie releases sometimes struggle with solid foods and what to do if this happens to you

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Episode Description

If your baby has a tongue-tie (or has had one released) you might be wondering: will this affect their ability to start solid foods?

In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Shaina Holman, DDS, PhD, a dentist with a rare specialty in infant tongue-ties and a research background in infant feeding. She runs a multidisciplinary infant feeding clinic in North Carolina, working alongside lactation consultants, SLPs, and infant massage therapists to take a whole-body, team-based approach to diagnosis and treatment.

Dr. Shaina explains what tongue- and lip-ties are, how they can impact both milk feeding and solid feeding, and what to look out for if you’re considering - or have already done - a release. As a mom of three who’s done baby-led weaning with her own kids, she brings both clinical and practical insights to this conversation.

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About the Guest

Dr. Holman completed her undergraduate education at Duke University where she majored in Biological Anthropology and Anatomy and graduated with distinction. She completed a D.D.S. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences in a dual degree program at the University of Maryland in Baltimore.
She is a baby-led weaning mom of 3 and Dr. Holman owns and operates Holman Family Dental Care in Chapel Hill, NC where she also runs an infant feeding and tongue tie clinic.
She is a member of the Academy of General Dentistry, the American Dental Association, North Carolina Dental Society and is a Silver Life Member of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP.

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Links from this Episode

Visit Dr. Shaina’s private practice website and her tongue tie clinic
Follow Dr. Shaina on Instagram @holmanfamilydentalcare
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program

Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners

Other episodes related to this topic:

Episode 148 - How Cleft Lip & Cleft Palate Babies can Succeed in Self-Feeding with Vikash K. Modi, MD
Episode 438 - How to Brush Your Baby's Teeth with @firstgrin Ashley Lerman, DDS
Episode 466 - Beginnings of a Bad Bite: How Purees Impact Jaw Growth with Ben Miraglia, DDS

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