In this episode Katie and Dr Meggie Graham discuss how tongue tie and breastfeeding challenges should be supported by a team for better functional results. They talk about how to make a team, how this approach supports families better, optimal timing of release and why the Untethered Initiative.

Podcast guest: Dr Meggie Graham graduated from Marquette University School of Dentistry in 2009. Dr. Graham owns Lake Park Dental and Untethered Airway Health & Tongue Tie Center. Both are located on Milwaukee’s Eastside near UWM & serves the entire Milwaukee area. She and her team offer a relaxed atmosphere where comprehensive, holistic health is top priority. She is very involved in continuing education, community outreach, and expanding public awareness of airway health. She is an affiliate of The Breathe Institue, a Liason for AAPMD, and member of the Spear Faculty Club.

Podcast host: Katie Oshita, RN, BSN, IBCLC has over 22 years of experience working in Maternal-Infant Medicine. Katie is a telehealth lactation consultant believing that clients anywhere in the world deserve the best care possible for their needs. Being an expert on TOTs, Katie helps families everywhere navigate breastfeeding struggles, especially tongue tie and gut/allergy related issues. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

In this episode Katie reviews a year on the road both professionally and personally. Having visited 27 states, had 26 episodes now and met with many providers, it has been a busy year. Watching tongue tie releases all over the country, Katie discusses similarities and differences between release providers, talks about what she is seeing, and what she wants to see in the future. Katie also discusses her own kids tongue tie journeys this year and how that has deepened her understanding of tongue tie issues that develop as we age. Sneak peek for upcoming providers to be interviewed as well.

Podcast host: Katie Oshita, RN, BSN, IBCLC has over 22 years of experience working in Maternal-Infant Medicine. Katie is a telehealth lactation consultant believing that clients anywhere in the world deserve the best care possible for their needs. Being an expert on TOTs, Katie helps families everywhere navigate breastfeeding struggles, especially tongue tie and gut/allergy related issues. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

In this episode Katie and Lynn discuss how birth trauma and breastfeeding challenges should be supported by both an IBCLC and chiro/bodyworker team. They talk through their own journeys, why colic isn't a diagnosis and the best time to start working with an IBCLC and chiropractor.

Podcast guest: Dr Lynn Gerner, DC, FICPA specializes in pre/post-natal maternity care and pediatrics, including advanced cranial adjusting techniques. Dr Gerner works closely with IBCLC's to support breastfeeding challenges, TOTs, colic, euro-processing challenges and more. Dr Gerner is the founder of The Good Life Learning, LLC and teaches post-graduate education courses on Advanced Cranial work for breastfeeding infants and chiropractic prenatal care. Dr Gerner practices at The Good Life Chiropractic in Davis, CA

Podcast host: Katie Oshita, RN, BSN, IBCLC has over 22 years of experience working in Maternal-Infant Medicine. Katie is a telehealth lactation consultant believing that clients anywhere in the world deserve the best care possible for their needs. Being an expert on TOTs, Katie helps families everywhere navigate breastfeeding struggles, especially tongue tie and gut/allergy related issues. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

Dr Saleha Mahmud-Ritter started Tongue Tie Center of Baltimore is a was a General Dentist before becoming a parent. Having her first son she learned all about lactation and tongue ties from the support of her IBCLC. This led Dr Saleha to "quit" general dentistry, and truly jump into all things Tongue tie.

In this episode, Dr Saleha and Katie discuss their families tongue tie journeys, hospital lactation care, Baby-Friendly certifications and how it all comes together.

Podcast host: Katie Oshita, RN, BSN, IBCLC has over 22 years of experience working in Maternal-Infant Medicine. Katie is a telehealth lactation consultant believing that clients anywhere in the world deserve the best care possible for their needs. Being an expert on TOTs, Katie helps families everywhere navigate breastfeeding struggles, especially tongue tie and gut/allergy related issues. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

Having a baby with multiple food sensitivities is painful and exhausting. In this episode Dr Trill discusses her journey from PhD doing ovarian cancer research to allergy mom then breastmilk allergy detector kit developer/CEO of Free to Feed. Dr Trill is doing the most amazing (and some of the only research in this area) research for allergen detection in breastmilk to help families understand how to help their babies eat without pain. She also started Free to Feed to be a source of education and support for allergy families. Follow Dr Trill with Free to Feed on Instagram.

Podcast host: Katie Oshita, RN, BSN, IBCLC has over 22 years of experience working in Maternal-Infant Medicine. Katie is a telehealth lactation consultant believing that clients anywhere in the world deserve the best care possible for their needs. Being an expert on TOTs, Katie helps families everywhere navigate breastfeeding struggles, especially tongue tie and gut/allergy related issues. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

Podcast host: Katie Oshita, RN, BSN, IBCLC has over 22 years of experience working in Maternal-Infant Medicine. Katie is a telehealth lactation consultant believing that clients anywhere in the world deserve the best care possible for their needs. Being an expert on TOTs, Katie helps families everywhere navigate breastfeeding struggles, especially tongue tie and gut/allergy related issues. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

In this episode Katie discusses care of TOTs with Autumn R. Henning, MS, CCC-SLP, COM®, IBCLC of Chrysalis Orofacial. As an IBCLC and COM, Autumn works with clients the entire lifespan. Tongue tie starts in utero, changing the way baby swallows amniotic fluid and continues throughout life, effecting breastfeeding, speech, sleep and more. The effects of tongue tie never end, we just learn how to compensate, some better than others. Autumn works with a team of providers in Greenville South Carolina and has courses for providers.

Podcast host: Katie Oshita, RN, BSN, IBCLC has over 22 years of experience working in Maternal-Infant Medicine. Katie is a telehealth lactation consultant believing that clients anywhere in the world deserve the best care possible for their needs. Being an expert on TOTs, Katie helps families everywhere navigate breastfeeding struggles, especially tongue tie and gut/allergy related issues. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

Katie Oshita RN, BSN, IBCLC is on the road (updating from Tampa Florida) again. In this episode she covers tongue tie from a mom and provider prospective. Katie's daughters are 13 and 10, both undergoing tongue 👅 tie releases, functional frenuplasty aka Zaghi Method, and 1 upper lip tie release by Dr Maggie Davis. Katie talks about Myofunctional therapy, Myofascial release, palate expansion, pain management and how it was to be a mom watching her daughter's releases (spoiler alert: super cool as a provider, terrible as a mom!). See how tongue tie doesn't go away or stretch, the compensations just get bigger and affect daily life more.

Podcast host: Katie Oshita, RN, BSN, IBCLC has over 22 years of experience working in Maternal-Infant Medicine. Katie is a telehealth lactation consultant believing that clients anywhere in the world deserve the best care possible for their needs. Being an expert on TOTs, Katie helps families everywhere navigate breastfeeding struggles, especially tongue tie and gut/allergy related issues. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

Dr Yang is a Breast surgeon and IBCLC candidate. As a Breastfeeding Medicine doctor she seems clients prenatally for education and support, lactating for assistance and also oncology patients as well. While she is a traditionally trained surgeon, Dr Yang also understands and uses alternative methods when appropriate, such as recommending probiotics instead of antibiotics for mastitis. Dr Yang is a part of MarinHealth.

Podcast host: Katie Oshita, RN, BSN, IBCLC has over 22 years of experience working in Maternal-Infant Medicine. Katie is a telehealth lactation consultant believing that clients anywhere in the world deserve the best care possible for their needs. Being an expert on TOTs, Katie helps families everywhere navigate breastfeeding struggles, especially tongue tie and gut/allergy related issues. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

Dr Casey Lynn owns Tampa Tongue Tie Center and SmileLynn Pediatric Dentistry. He is focused on offering both great pediatric dentistry, being focused on airway and preventative dental care and truly passionate about quality tongue tie treatment. Listen to hear more about his practice, what he recommends for post-op care, and what he sees in his clients. Dr Casey treats tongue tie in all ages from birth through the life span.

Podcast host: Katie Oshita, RN, BSN, IBCLC has over 22 years of experience working in Maternal-Infant Medicine. Katie is a telehealth lactation consultant believing that clients anywhere in the world deserve the best care possible for their needs. Being an expert on TOTs, Katie helps families everywhere navigate breastfeeding struggles, especially tongue tie and gut/allergy related issues. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

Dr Baxter is not only an amazing Pediatric dentist, a fantastic release provider, wonderful teacher (creator of Tongue-Tied Academy), he is also the best selling author of "Tongue Tied- How a Tiny String Under the Tongue Impacts Nursing, Speech, Feeding and More". Katie spent the day watching Richard meet with patients, do a through assessment and then a complete release and can understand why he is so very busy. Even on his busiest days, Richard takes the time to stop and pray with every patient before the procedure and shows how much he truly cares about each and every family he meets. Dr Baxter also is doing amazing research to help the field of tongue tie progress with evidence to show how a complete release can impact a persons overall health.

Podcast host: Katie Oshita, RN, BSN, IBCLC has over 22 years of experience working in Maternal-Infant Medicine. Katie is a telehealth lactation consultant believing that clients anywhere in the world deserve the best care possible for their needs. Being an expert on TOTs, Katie helps families everywhere navigate breastfeeding struggles, especially tongue tie and gut/allergy related issues. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

In this update episode Katie Oshita talks through some of the crazy things her clients are told by providers regarding breastfeeding and tongue tie, as well as going over her own tongue tie journey that is starting now for her family.

Podcast host: Katie Oshita, RN, BSN, IBCLC has over 22 years of experience working in Maternal-Infant Medicine. Katie is a telehealth lactation consultant believing that clients anywhere in the world deserve the best care possible for their needs. Being an expert on TOTs, Katie helps families everywhere navigate breastfeeding struggles, especially tongue tie and gut/allergy related issues. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

Dr Maggie Davis is a Pediatric dentist and also owns Florida Tongue Tie in Palm Harbor. Her training and expertise are guided by her personal experience with her own son's tongue ties being missed. Due to that, Dr Maggie has created the Florida Tongue Tie center in order for multi-discipline specialities to be able to collaborate for best possible outcomes for all TOTs kids.

Podcast host: Katie Oshita, RN, BSN, IBCLC has over 22 years of experience working in Maternal-Infant Medicine. Katie is a telehealth lactation consultant believing that clients anywhere in the world deserve the best care possible for their needs. Being an expert on TOTs, Katie helps families everywhere navigate breastfeeding struggles, especially tongue tie and gut/allergy related issues. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

Sabrina Freidenfelds, MPH, IBCLC, PMH-C is the Executive Director of Then Comes Baby New Family Resource, a community-based nonprofit supporting new and expecting parents from pregnancy through early parenthood. Sabrina is a seasoned leader with a love of organization development, with deep expertise in perinatal health and wellness, lactation consulting, and the integrative health best practices that collectively work to strengthen perinatal mental health and new parent resilience.

Podcast host: Katie Oshita, RN, BSN, IBCLC has over 22 years of experience working in Maternal-Infant Medicine. Katie is a telehealth lactation consultant believing that clients anywhere in the world deserve the best care possible for their needs. Being an expert on TOTs, Katie helps families everywhere navigate breastfeeding struggles, especially tongue tie and gut/allergy related issues. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

Team Tongue Tie is a practice completely focused on diagnosing and treating tongue, buccal and lip ties. Dr Alisa Sacker, MD, IBCLC and her sister Rosanne Berger, DDS, IBCLC are passionate about helping people of all ages struggling with oral function get the best result possible. Dr Sacker is a Pediatrician with neonatal training and started the tongue tie program at Kaiser in San Diego before starting her own practice. In the office they provide 1:1 lactation support with IBCLC's to support all breastfeeding dyads with the best care possible.

Podcast host: Katie Oshita, RN, BSN, IBCLC has over 22 years of experience working in Maternal-Infant Medicine. Katie is a telehealth lactation consultant believing that clients anywhere in the world deserve the best care possible for their needs. Being an expert on TOTs, Katie helps families everywhere navigate breastfeeding struggles, especially tongue tie and gut/allergy related issues. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

Dr Dale Tylor is an extremely knowledgeable, experienced and compassionate doctor serving the families of the Santa Barbara area with TOTs. However Dr Tylor is doing much more than that. As a member of the Board of ENT's, Dr Tylor is using her seat at the table to advocate for all women and children, for adequate assessment and treatment of tongue and lip ties. Dr Tylor is extremely knowledgeable and with her MPH in Ankyloglossia she has a unique understanding of the greater health impacts of an untreated tongue tie. See Dr Tylor at Riviera ENT.

Podcast host: Katie Oshita, RN, BSN, IBCLC has over 22 years of experience working in Maternal-Infant Medicine. Katie is a telehealth lactation consultant believing that clients anywhere in the world deserve the best care possible for their needs. Being an expert on TOTs, Katie helps families everywhere navigate breastfeeding struggles, especially tongue tie and gut/allergy related issues. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

Dr Katrina Mitchell is a breast surgeon and IBCLC with an emphasis in Perinatal Mental Health. Listen as we discuss breast health, breast-feeding and all things breasts.

Podcast host: Katie Oshita, RN, BSN, IBCLC has over 22 years of experience working in Maternal-Infant Medicine. Katie is a telehealth lactation consultant believing that clients anywhere in the world deserve the best care possible for their needs. Being an expert on TOTs, Katie helps families everywhere navigate breastfeeding struggles, especially tongue tie and gut/allergy related issues. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

Here is an update on Katie's personal and professional traveling journey. Having been to 10 states so far, met with numbers professionals and spent more days working outside than ever before, this update will cover the last few months and what's up and coming.

Podcast host: Katie Oshita, RN, BSN, IBCLC has over 22 years of experience working in Maternal-Infant Medicine. Katie is a telehealth lactation consultant believing that clients anywhere in the world deserve the best care possible for their needs. Being an expert on TOTs, Katie helps families everywhere navigate breastfeeding struggles, especially tongue tie and gut/allergy related issues. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

Meet Jewel Mohr, of Mohr Lactation and Structure and Function Education. We discuss how assessing and infants structure AND function is essential when working with any breastfeeding dyad. Jewel has developed structure and function classes- for the IBCLC, other provider (such as Pediatricians, Doula's, etc) and even for parents. Understanding structure and function of infant oral anatomy is the building block for working with breastfeeding dyads and should be step one for most providers.

Podcast host: Katie Oshita, RN, BSN, IBCLC has over 22 years of experience working in Maternal-Infant Medicine. Katie is a telehealth lactation consultant believing that clients anywhere in the world deserve the best care possible for their needs. Being an expert on TOTs, Katie helps families everywhere navigate breastfeeding struggles, especially tongue tie and gut/allergy related issues. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

Marge Foran has been a dental hygienist for over 20 years and now is a Myofunctional therapist (and owner of Montana Myo). Since Marge typically works with clients over 4 years of age, we talk about how an untreated tongue tie in a newborn advances and what treatment options look like with older children.

Podcast host: Katie Oshita, RN, BSN, IBCLC has over 22 years of experience working in Maternal-Infant Medicine. Katie is a telehealth lactation consultant believing that clients anywhere in the world deserve the best care possible for their needs. Being an expert on TOTs, Katie helps families everywhere navigate breastfeeding struggles, especially tongue tie and gut/allergy related issues. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com