Infant Oral Massage is a unique, gentle massage for infants to help open their palate and relieve neck and facial tension.
The massage can help with their swallowing, as well as open up their sinuses and ensuring their TMJ is balanced.
Additionally it can be used to stretch their tongue while assessing for tongue restrictions and other ties.
The massage helps balance baby's head, neck and body posture, promoting overall relaxation to ensure better breathing and latching.
The oral facial massage is complementary to the work of the doula and lactation consultant treatments.
I work with infants from 6 weeks to 8 months, depending on when their teeth come in, as well as before and after a frenectomy to help with latching and feeding.
These are the many areas of specialty in helping parents find relief:
Do these Signs and Symptoms Look Familiar?
These are the signs and symptoms parents should be aware of for their child’s growth and development:
“Just wanted you to know Max has been fully latched for a month now!
Thank you again for all your help and for supporting me to not give up.”
Robin
There are many benefits to clinical oral massage and frenectomy treatment for infants. The swallowing mechanism in infants is different from older children. Any restrictions of the tongue from tongue-tie can interfere with breastfeeding resulting in difficult feeding time. Tongue-tie or Ankyloglossia can impact the natural sucking and swallowing and can cause pain to the mother leaving both frustrated.
With Oral Facial Health Care, you can reduce the occurrence of discomfort associated with migraine pressure tension headaches, jaw or neck pain or other painful symptoms of OMD.
We offer a 10-point evaluation and customized therapies based on holistic, natural healing methods.