Breastfeeding is universal, something that all humans, all mammals have done since the beginning of time. Lactation as a profession is new and has different norms throughout the world. Rosa Sorribas is an IBCLC in Barcelona, Spain who focuses not just on supporting new parents with lactation and infant feeding support. Rosa focuses on training new IBCLC's, encouraging more students to learn about lactation to support more and more families. In this episode Katie Oshita and Rosa Sorribas discuss teaching, lactation, tongue tie and world views on this and more.

Podcast Guest: Rosa Sorribas is an IBCLC in private practice in Barcelona since 2008. She is a Computer Engineer working on Internet and databases since 1986. In 2002, after her first daughter was born, she and her husband created CrianzaNatural.com, a Spanish portal and forum with information for an attachment parenting style of life. Since then, she's been involved in breastfeeding groups, such as La Leche League and Areola, which she still collaborates with. She offers breastfeeding and babywearing education in Spain, Portugal, Poland, and online. She's been working as doula in home and hospital births. Her website has been the source of dozens of support groups, many breastfeeding conselours and IBCLCs, and has helped hundreds of thousands of families around the world to get their maternity goals. For the last few years she's been very focused in nutrition after a cancer treatment left some issues on her health. She is now running a weekly podcast and video interview to relevant people addressing topics from conception to teens. In February she will launch a training course to become IBCLC, with the help of several new and experienced IBCLCs that she's been mentoring, in a site called ecrianza.com. She lives near the beach of Castelldefels with her two daughters who were homeschooled for 6 years, her lovely husband and her dog Timi.

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 when related to tongue tie or low supply. Katie is also passionate about finding the root cause of symptoms, using Functional Medicine practices to help client not just survive, but truly thrive. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

For both Katie Oshita and Rachelle Markham, being a neurodivergent business owner is part of life. Learning about sensory banks, tools, timers, apps and how to make life easier for themselves has been a learning process. Listen as they discuss some of what has, and what has not, helped them be more productive, and more regulated so that balance and success is part of their lives.

Podcast Guest: Rachelle Markham, owns and operates Wellness Lactation, in San Diego, CA where she helps new parents and families navigate their infant feeding journey. Rachelle has been working with families for over 27 years. Twenty of those years have been as an IBCLC. She has a passion for learning and keeping up to date with all things human lactation. This desire to “know-all-the-things” means she can frequently be found traveling to trainings or enrolled in multiple online classes. Last year she finished up a year long intensive program on Holistic Lactation, which allows her to help so many more families achieve their feeding goals.

When she doesn't have a client in front of her you’ll almost always find Rachelle with a giant iced black tea in hand, wearing something black, tending to her chickens and large garden, or planning her next adventure!

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 when related to tongue tie or low supply. Katie is also passionate about finding the root cause of symptoms, using Functional Medicine practices to help client not just survive, but truly thrive. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

Katie Oshita and Allison Alexander discuss private practice in the US, support for new families, tongue tie timing and more. Allison Alexander sees families struggling with complex feeding issues, develops customized care plans and supports families throughout the feeding journey. Understanding the dyad is what makes lacation universally different than any other specialty who sees mom or baby individually. Listen here for more about private practice in the US.

Podcast Guest: Allison Alexander is an IBCLC with a background in pediatric nursing. After struggling to breastfeed a neurodivergent baby, she pursued the IBCLC credential in order to help families in a pediatric setting. As passing boards, she studied holistic and comprehensive clinical lactation care strategies to support families who are having more complex feeding challenges. She now co-owns a thriving private practice in Metro Detroit with virtual care offered worldwide.

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 when related to tongue tie or low supply. Katie is also passionate about finding the root cause of symptoms, using Functional Medicine practices to help client not just survive, but truly thrive. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

Breastfeeding struggles are not a uniquely US issue, nor is tongue tie. In this episode, Katie Oshita talks with Eva Fieback, an SLP/IBCLC in Berlin, Germany about the differences and similarities between support in the two countries. Eva discusses how as an SLP it is in her scope of practice in Germany to teach oral exercises, however IBCLC's are not allowed to in Germany. Government insurance also doesn't cover any visits with an IBCLC, yet SLP visits are covered. Tongue tie assessment and treatment is just a difficult in Germany as it is in the US. Listen here as Katie and Eva discuss the dynamics of private practices supporting new fmailies across the globe from each other.

Podcast Guest: Eva Fieback is a Logopädin, which means SLP since 2005. Eva specialized in the treatment of patients with dysphagia and neurological disorders, augmentative communication, working at a school for neurodiverse children, many of them with eating or swallowing disorders. Eva has been in a private practice for many years, and became an IBCLC in 2018. For the last 6 -7 years I ve been working with hundreds of families with breastfeeding problems.

Eva visited the masterclass in Seattle 2020 (last in person pre-Covid) , took Zaghis course as an Tbi ambassador, Dan Hansons Course, a course with the AOMT in London and many many more to learn, how treatment of tongue tie and breastfeeding difficulties is done in other parts of the world.

Eva Fieback is a teacher for the EISL, European Institute for breastfeeding and lactation, for oral anatomy, swallowing disorders in children, tongue tie treatment and other issues.

Eva Fieback is a 56 year old, mother of four children, 2 of them are going to universities, two of them are still at home and lives in Berlin, Germany.

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 when related to tongue tie or low supply. Katie is also passionate about finding the root cause of symptoms, using Functional Medicine practices to help client not just survive, but truly thrive. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

In this episode Katie Oshita discusses the Holistic Lactation residency course she is taking, and our framework. Acknowledging and understanding our framework is an essential first step to education and practice. If we don't examine what we think of as normal, common, or basic for everyone, then we are ignoring what is part of our bias. Our framework is created through our experiences and education, and it forms the lens we see the world through. This episode challenges listeners to first look at their own frames, and then to really consider if those frames are correct, allowing them to see the whole picture and how those frames are effecting their practice.

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 when related to tongue tie or low supply. Katie is also passionate about finding the root cause of symptoms, using Functional Medicine practices to help client not just survive, but truly thrive. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

In this episode, Katie Oshita discusses manual therapy and tongue tie babies with Dr Ashley Rich. Understanding oral ties and the impact on the fascial system is important for all practitioners working with families struggling with feeding issues. Understanding how a different therapist sees things allows us to learn from each other, for the benefit of the families we all support. Dr Ashley has more understanding than most Pediatric chiropractors after taking the IBCLC Master Class- Manual Therapy track and discusses this course and how it changed her practice in this episode.

Podcast Guest: Dr. Ashley Rich is a Metro Detroit native and currently practices in suburban Detroit. She is certified in chiropractic pediatrics from the Academy of Family Practice and is passionate about aiding breastfeeding issues through a decade-long study, striving to enhance infant wellness and support parental journeys.

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 when related to tongue tie or low supply. Katie is also passionate about finding the root cause of symptoms, using Functional Medicine practices to help client not just survive, but truly

On the road again, well just for the day. Listen as Katie Oshita meets with Dr Jimmy Chan in Vancouver BC to discuss his journey into tongue tie, ICAP and all things lactation and oral tethers. When to release a tie is just as important as if to release the tie. Tongue ties aren't just a problem in the US, but worldwide ankyglossia is a growing issue and field. Hear more with Katie Oshita and Dr Jimmy Chan.

Podcast Guest: Dr. Jimmy Chan is a graduate of the University of British Columbia Faculty of Dentistry. Dr. Chan has an keen interest in the high-tech aspects of dentistry to improve and enhance the well-being of his patients. Dr. Chan holds Fellowship status in both the Academy of Laser Dentistry and the Institute of Advanced Laser Dentistry.

Dr. Chan is a co-founder and current board member of ICAP (International Consortium of Oral Ankylofrenula Professionals) and a past board member of IATP (International Affiliation of Tongue Tie Professionals). He is an active member of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, American Academy of Periodontology, Academy of Laser Dentistry, Chinese Canadian Dental Society of British Columbia and Canadian Dental Association.

Dr. Chan has cared for patients in his family dental practice in Lynn Valley, North Vancouver for over 25 years. He collaborates extensively with lactation consultants, midwifes and manual therapists in his community to improve the lives of breastfeeding dyads. He gives back to his alma mater by volunteering annually for the UBC Alumni Association.

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 when related to tongue tie or low supply. Katie is also passionate about finding the root cause of symptoms, using Functional Medicine practices to help client not just survive, but truly thrive. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

Pelvic floor issues post-pregnancy and birth are all too common.  Whether it's related to more sedentary lifestyles, assisted births, or epigentics is not known, but it does not have to be accepted.  Jenn Lormand EP and Christina Walsh PT all about stopping the acceptance that a little leaking is normal, and empowering women to take control of their own bodies.  No weird devices, meds or surgery needed, they created a home PT program, proven to be effective by a 3 year study at the University of New Orleans.  In this recording Christina talks with Katie Oshita about what is normal (hint- ever leaking pee is NOT), how to prevent problems and how to advocate for yourself.  Listen in to hear more about how women can take control of their bodies and stop painful or embarrassing issues.  ***Coupon code KTLC50 for $50 off the home program- share with anyone in need of support***

Podcast Guest: A New Orleans mama of two living with pelvic floor issues, Christina is a Physical Therapist specializing in Integrative Manual Therapy and the co-creator of Tighten Your Tinkler. Christina and her cofounder Jenn Lormand have a combined 36 years of experience supporting postpartum women holistically through prolapse, diastasis recti, and more. Their proprietary protocol helps women solve pelvic floor problems WITHOUT kegels or internal vaginal devices from the comfort of their own homes. Christina's mission is to free more mamas from embarrassing pee leaks, chronic back/hip pain, and painful sex and, in doing so, help them to restore their dignity, functional strength, and trust in their own bodies.

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 when related to tongue tie or low supply.  Katie is also passionate about finding the root cause of symptoms, using Functional Medicine practices to help client not just survive, but truly thrive. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

Tongue tie is much more than anatomy, it's about function first. Even more it's about the dyad- a mom and baby pair for the first year- and how this functional loss is affecting them. The frenectomy, or release, itself isn't going to get good results without adequate pre and post frenectomy support. Listen as Katie Oshita and Dr Thomas discuss Dr Thomas' path to becoming a frenecotmy provider, how he supports families with referralsfor other providers in the area and what's ahead for Health Latch. The clinic, Health Latch, is an infant focused tongue tie clinic in Bellevue Washington started by Dr James Thomas.

Podcast Guest: Originally from the Midwest, Dr. Thomas completed his dental studies and Master's in pediatric dentistry from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry. After residency, he and his family moved to the Pacific Northwest where he started a practice in Downtown Bellevue in 2007. Nine years and 7500 patients later, Dr. Thomas was called in a different direction: to help babies thrive.

In 2017, Dr. Thomas started health:latch, a specialty clinic focused on educating, diagnosing, and releasing infant oral tethers so that babies and their families can enjoy a healthy, full life. He is excited to make a return to pediatric dentistry where he can bring a holistic approach to a child's full development from ages 0 - 18.

Dr. Thomas enjoys spending time in the great PNW outdoors, going on trips with his wife to visit their college kids, and most of all, spending time with his best four-legged friend, Sherman.

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 when related to tongue tie or low supply. Katie is also passionate about finding the root cause of symptoms, using Functional Medicine practices to help client not just survive, but truly thrive. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

In this episode Katie Oshita, RN, BSN, IBCLC discusses the current status of birth in this country. In the United States there is a vast disparity in healthcare between races, leading to an alarmingly high maternal morbidity and mortality rate for black women. This will not change until it is talked about, until we all demand equal and safe healthcare for all. Katie also discusses SIDS, safe sleep, and parental leave and the direct correlation with breastfeeding rates in the US and worldwide.

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 when related to tongue tie or low supply. Katie is also passionate about finding the root cause of symptoms, using Functional Medicine practices to help client not just survive, but truly thrive. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

In this episode Katie Oshita, RN, BSN, IBCLC discusses the current status of birth in this country. In the United States there is a vast disparity in healthcare between races, leading to an alarmingly high maternal morbidity and mortality rate for black women. This will not change until it is talked about, until we all demand equal and safe healthcare for all. Katie also discusses SIDS, safe sleep, and parental leave and the direct correlation with breastfeeding rates in the US and worldwide.

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 when related to tongue tie or low supply. Katie is also passionate about finding the root cause of symptoms, using Functional Medicine practices to help client not just survive, but truly thrive. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

Dr Jack Newman has been working with breastfeeding mothers for over 4 decades! His knowledge of breastfeeding medicine is expansive, and his passion for helping breastfeeding mothers never wavers.  In this episode Katie Oshita and Dr Newman discuss inducting lactation, at breast versus bottle supplementation and much more.  If you want to learn about lactation from one of the leaders in Breastfeeding Medicine ins the world, listen to this episode now.Podcast Guest: Dr. Jack Newman graduated from the University of Toronto medical school in 1970 and completed his residency at Vancouver General Hospital. Following this, he trained in pediatrics in Quebec City and then at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto from 1977-1981. In 1981, Dr. Newman became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, as well as Board Certified by the American Academy of Pediatrics

Dr. Newman was a staff paediatrician at the Hospital for Sick Children emergency department from 1983 to 1992, and acted as Chief of Emergency Services for a short period. During his time at the Hospital for Sick Children, he founded the first hospital-based breastfeeding clinic in Canada in 1984. He has been a consultant for UNICEF for the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative, where he evaluated the first candidate hospitals in Gabon, the Ivory Coast, and Canada. In 2013, Dr. Newman was awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Medal for service to the community.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 when related to tongue tie or low supply.  Katie is also passionate about finding the root cause of symptoms, using Functional Medicine practices to help client not just survive, but truly thrive. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

Bodywork is defined as a manual therapy, healing touch used holistically to increase wellness in a person. There are many wonderful kinds of bodywork- craniosacral therapy, chiropractic, osteopathic, myofascial and more. Judy Rosevear-Pusey has been practicing myofascial release therapy for over 30 years and teaches throughout the country. Katie and Judy discuss how bodywork helps newborns through adulthood, and how it helps with feeding.

Podcast Guest: Judy Rosevar-Pusey has been an Occupational Therapist for 50 years and has treated all ages and diagnoses. In 1989, she took her 1st Myofascial Release course from John F. Barnes, PT, learning more about the fascial system. Judy has since taken many Myofascial courses and teaches the Pediatric Myofascial course all over the country. In January 2017 Judy’s clinic began using a Balance Tutor as the first clinic in America with one. It has been highly successful in improving physical skills in individuals diagnosed with stroke, Parkinson’s Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer’s, Autistic Spectrum Disorder, and Sensory Processing Difficulties. The balance Tutor helps improve balance and proprioceptive awareness of where our body is in space. It also helps improve reaction time, reducing the possibility of serious injury when if we fall.

Judy was born in Indiana, has 4 grown children, 4 grandchildren and a great granddaughter and they are an integral part of her life. When not working you can find Judy enjoy time with her family and hiking, camping, biking and traveling.

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 when related to tongue tie or low supply. Katie is also passionate about finding the root cause of symptoms, using Functional Medicine practices to help client not just survive, but truly thrive. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

Listen in as Katie Oshita and Dr Niki Boloorchi discuss tongue tie, training, timing, teams and all the things in this fields. Dr Niki is one of the rare providers who actually practices what she preaches, and understands timing of release, encouraging parents to work with lactation and bodywork before and after a release. Dr Niki doesn't even offer a release day of consultation unless referred by a preferred provider and prearranged! Listen as they discuss why this is important and how it affects the outcome of release.

Podcast Guest: Dr. Niki Boloorchi is a dentist and dental anesthesiologist who also has advanced training in treating tethered oral tissues (functional

Dr. Boloorchi holds a BA in International Development and earned her Doctorsre of dental surgery with honors from USC. She further specialized at the Loma Linda Dental Anesthesiology Residency Program and received special airway training in laser dentistry under Dr Zaghi (The Breathe Institute) and Dr. Richard Baxter.

Currently, she proudly is an affiliate of the Breathe Institute in Northern California. She is the owner of Tooth + Tongue in Walnut Creek , Ca. Her practice focuses on dentistry under sedation, airway, and tongue/lip tie releases with a comprehensive team approach.

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 when related to tongue tie or low supply. Katie is also passionate about finding the root cause of symptoms, using Functional Medicine practices to help client not just survive, but truly thrive. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

Katie Oshita and Rachelle Markham discuss lactation and how it is now, plus how it should be. Rachelle has taken the year long holistic residency program from Jennifer Tow, and discusses how this has transformed her practice, but also how understanding our body processes and how dysfunction happens has added whole new toolboxes for her practice. Rachelle states this course has given her answers to questions she didn't even know to ask. Listen here to learn more about Rachelle and wellness lactation.

Podcast Guest: Rachelle Markham, owns and operates Wellness Lactation, in San Diego, CA where she helps new parents and families navigate their infant feeding journey. Rachelle has been working with families for over 27 years. Twenty of those years have been as an IBCLC. She has a passion for learning and keeping up to date with all things human lactation. This desire to “know-all-the-things” means she can frequently be found traveling to trainings or enrolled in multiple online classes. Last year she finished up a year long intensive program on Holistic Lactation, which allows her to help so many more families achieve their feeding goals.

When she doesn't have a client in front of her you’ll almost always find Rachelle with a giant iced black tea in hand, wearing something black, tending to her chickens and large garden, or planning her next adventure!

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 when related to tongue tie or low supply. Katie is also passionate about finding the root cause of symptoms, using Functional Medicine practices to help client not just survive, but truly thrive. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

Another year of podcasting! Another year on the road with THOUSANDS of miles, meeting with providers and recording to share this information. In this year Katie Oshita met with 10 release providers, 3 chiropractors, 1 Myofascial release therapist, 7 IBCLC's, 1 SLP and had 5 episodes herself.

In this episode, Katie discusses some of the things she has learned as well as what she has noticed watching releases, providers co-treating, and different attempts at tongue tie teams. Listen to hear more about how to achieve competency not compensations for breastfeeding families.

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 when related to tongue tie or low supply. Katie is also passionate about finding the root cause of symptoms, using Functional Medicine practices to help client not just survive, but truly thrive. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

In this episode Katie Oshita, RN, BSN, IBCLC and Mark Persaud, DDS discuss tongue tie both from a parent's and provider's perspective and how all of this led to Dr Persaud and his wife Amelia Persaud to create a multi-therapy office. The strategy here was to allow parents one location, one place to centralize care. More than that, this central design facilities provider communication and true learning from each other. Listen for more details about this groundbreaking tongue tie center of Atlanta.

Podcast Guest: Mark Persaud, DDS and his wife, Amelia OTR/L, IBCLC built their own specialty practice from the ground up almost three years ago, where they focus on tethered oral tissues (TOTs) and therapy under one roof. The focus and passion behind his practice is to educate parents and walk them through the TOTs release process in a way that he felt was lacking when he went through these issues as a parent himself. Both of his children exhibited multiple signs and symptoms of TOTs as infants, and despite exhausting consultations with different medical professionals, he felt that there was a missing piece of the puzzle in improving their issues. This sent him and his wife down the rabbit hole of airway focused dentistry and therapy. Through several continuing education courses and a practice that focuses only on TOTs and therapy, Dr. Persaud has a unique exposure that allows him to look beyond the lens of just performing frenectomies, but also understanding holistically, the importance of pre and post therapy rehabilitation and wound management, which he feels truly makes all the difference in providing patients with consistent and predictable results.

Dr. Persaud is from Queens, NY. He graduated from Meharry Medical College in 2017, and completed an AEGD through NYU-Lutheran in Atlanta, Georgia, where he and his family settled. Although he still loves New York (to visit), the hustle and traffic congestion of the big city life drives him bonkers. He is a homebody that enjoys time with his two kiddos and awesome wife. Aside from being an airway focused dentist, he finds himself becoming more into health and wellness, and would love to grow his airway focused practice into adding functional medicine in the upcoming years.

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 when related to tongue tie or low supply. Katie is also passionate about finding the root cause of symptoms, using Functional Medicine practices to help client not just survive, but truly thrive. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

In this episode Katie Oshita, RN, BSN, IBCLC reviews a few recent case studies for tongue tie support. In one case the family reached out for support one month after a frenectomy that hadn't brought any changes. The other family reached out when the baby had completely refused the breast, at 7 weeks old, after needing to supplement for weight gain. Both families had seen many providers and not gotten a resolution of issues, or to an easy feeding result. Both families were frustrated and didn't know what else to try. Katie reviews her treatment plan and how working with other providers in tandem, mainly bodyworkers, can bring better results much faster than treating alone.

Katie also discusses what functional lactation and holistic care looks like in her practice. How oral function is important but doesn't exist in a vacuum. The dyad needs complete care, from milk supply to gut health, sleep solutions and mental health. Treating the dyad is about much more than breastfeeding, it's supporting the parent and child through all of their struggles and helping them reach their goals.

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 when related to tongue tie or low supply. Katie is also passionate about finding the root cause of symptoms, using Functional Medicine practices to help client not just survive, but truly thrive. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

Both Katie Oshita and Liz Turner are working with tongue tie families trying to find support and function. Both Katie and Liz know the secret isn't in the release alone (Liz does a fabulous release tho, and it is an essential part of the process), it's about timing of release, teamwork and functional habilitation. So how do all these things go together and how does it work for families that aren't getting support, who are learning about tongue tie from Facebook groups? Listen to hear more about this process here.

Podcast Guest: Dr. Turner had been a general dentist for many years before discovering the link between oral restrictions, growth and development, and basically everything else in dentistry. Never in dental school or in practice did anyone talk about the tongue and the profound impact it has on the body. She is proud of her two babies ages 5 and 3 who have been her “why” in her journey of discovering oral restrictions, sleep, growth, and the impact that these three things have on the quality of life a human being can have. As a general restorative dentist with an airway focus, Dr. Turner has the opportunity to treat all ages, and in doing so is able to see the impact of untreated oral restrictions from womb to tomb. She specializes in cosmetic restorative dentistry with an airway focus always, as well as focusing on treatment of tethered oral tissues, interceptive orthodontic expansion, and preventive functional dentistry.

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 when related to tongue tie or low supply. Katie is also passionate about finding the root cause of symptoms, using Functional Medicine practices to help client not just survive, but truly thrive. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com

Lactation typically is either a home visit where the IBCLC comes to the client, or an office visit where the client comes to the IBCLC. Holly Johnson saw a problem in her area where too many families lived rurally and choosing one location for an office wouldn't serve each community. So Holly came up with a unique idea of creating a mobile lactation clinic, meaning that Holly comes part of the way, and clients come part of the way. Listen to hear more about how a mobile clinic works for this military wife IBCLC and the communities she serves.

Podcast Guest: Holly Johnson is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) with a Bachelor of Science in Maternal Child Health and Human Lactation. Holly is currently working on her MPH at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Holly provides care remotely and with in her mobile lactation clinics to military families and communities in Southern Colorado. She has completed additional education in TOTs and oral habilitation. Holly Johnson and her mobile clinic, Lady Leche, will be relocating to Missouri summer 2023.

Holly is married to Heath Johnson, who has been in the Army since 2008. They have 3 daughters together, Amelia, Eleanora, and Fiona. Holly has breastfed all her children until they self-wean. She experienced many breastfeeding-related problems throughout her journey, which led her to pursue a career in lactation.

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 when related to tongue tie or low supply. Katie is also passionate about finding the root cause of symptoms, using Functional Medicine practices to help client not just survive, but truly thrive. Email katie@cuddlesandmilk.com or www.cuddlesandmilk.com