Episode 69: The Impact of Tongue Ties on Feeding, Sleep and More with Beth Morel, PT

No One Told Us

Rachael Shepard-Ohta

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 590 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this conversation, Rachael is joined by Elizabeth Morel, Physical Therapist to demystify "tongue ties". The topic has been hotly debated in both medical and parenting circles, and Beth aims to give parents the knowledge they need to identify an oral tie and to take appropriate steps to address it. Elizabeth emphasizes the importance of early intervention for infants and children, and advocates for parents working with a team of healthcare professionals, including lactation consultants and therapists, to address tongue tie and its related issues. She also shares why she felt called to start her Instagram page, @littlemoverspt, where she provides educational content on tongue tie and infant movement. Inside this Episode: the signs and symptoms of infant tongue tie and how it can impact various systems of the body the increased diagnosis of tongue ties in recent years potential effects and lifelong implications of tongue / oral ties addressing ties in older children professionals you should be working with if you suspect a tie in your child and much much more! Beth has been a physical therapist since 2008 and has been treating babies for over 15 years. In that time she has gone above and beyond the general knowledge of a pediatric Physical Therapist, diving deep into the airway world. Within this world she was the first PT in New Jersey to work in the specific niche of treating babies with oral motor dysfunction, airway difficulties, and even deeper helping parents get to the right provider to find the root causes of the other part of sleep disturbances like heavy metals, parasites, viruses/bacteria overload, and more. She has dedicated the better part of the last 8 years specifically creating her own methodology to integrate the body and her own two kids really drove her passion for airway and oral motor. Beth’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/littlemoverspt/ Beth’s Website: https://www.littlemoverspt.com/ Rachael is a mom of 3, founder of Hey, Sleepy Baby, and the host of this podcast. Find Rachael here: Instagram | Tiktok | ✨For sleep support and resources, visit heysleepybaby.com and follow @heysleepybaby on Instagram! 😴☁️🤎✨ If you enjoyed this episode, please rate 5⭐️ and write us a review! ⬇️ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.5	Welcome to No One Told Us, the podcast that tells the truth about parenting and talks about all the stuff you wish you knew before having kids.
0:40.5	I'm your host, Rachel Shepard Otaugh, and today I'm speaking with Beth Morrell.
0:44.7	Beth has been a physical therapist since 2008 and has been treating babies for over 15 years.
0:50.7	In that time, she's gone above and beyond the general knowledge of a pediatric physical
0:55.0	therapist diving deep into the airway world, which is so interesting and exciting to me.
1:00.1	This is something that I talk about on my Instagram page, Hey, Sleepy Baby, all the time, and I'm so
1:05.5	excited. Beth works within this world of PT in New Jersey, but she also shares so much information and
1:11.7	education for parents on her Instagram platform, Little Movers, P.T. Beth, thank you so much for joining
1:17.7	today. This is, I know, such a big topic. We could probably sit here for like five hours and talk
1:22.5	about all of this stuff, but I hope that at the end of this episode, people will have a little bit
1:26.3	of clarity on the
1:27.8	important work that you do. So thank you so much for joining. Thank you so much for having me.
1:32.0	I'm super excited. And I hope to not be so long-winded because, like you said, we can literally
1:38.7	talk about this for hours. I know. There's a lot there. There's a lot there's a lot to geek out about and unpack and,
1:45.2	you know, things like tongue tie and airway have become, I don't want to use the word trendy because
1:50.3	they're not trends, but they've become things that people have talked about more now in the parenting
1:55.0	space and in the medical spaces and their topics that are really misunderstood. So I'm so glad that
1:59.5	you're here to kind of help parents demystify this kind of thing.
2:02.9	But before we dive into that, I want to just hear a little bit more about you and your own journey.
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