Holistic Tongue Tie Midwife

03/03/2026

📢 Home visits for Tongue Tie Appointments are now available!

✨ For unhurried appointments that include you every step of the way and put emphasis on:

- taking time to learn about you, your baby and your unique problems

- explaining why and how oral dysfunction and tongue tie may be impacting your baby

- supporting ongoing oral function

- supporting comfortable and sustainable feeding

📆 Please contact me directly to book an appointment as I can usually be flexible to fit around you

24/02/2026

• T O N G U E - T I E •

I hear so often about parents' concerns being dismissed and being told their baby has no tongue tie after only a look or a quick feel under the tongue. Sometimes by multiple professionals.

This can make you doubt your judgement and intuition as a new parent and can be really damaging to your confidence.

But it may not be true.

Trust your intuition.

Trust your gut.

Your mothers instinct can be stronger than you realise ✨

So many tears of relief have been shed in my presence, usually from mamas, who KNEW it in their bones

But were told, often repeatedly, that there was nothing to worry about

Despite their pain

Their baby's distress

Their endless efforts to work it out all by themselves.

You were never meant to know it all.

Help is out there.

Share this with anyone you know who may meed to hear this 💕

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🤱🏻 Personalised Infant Feeding Support
👅 Tongue Tie Appointments and Frenulotomy
❤️‍🩹 Trauma Resolution
🌙 Closing the Bones Ceremonies

📱 Get in touch if you have any questions.
📆 Book Online - website link in bio
📞 07528 744222
📍 Ilkley Dental Studio, West Yorkshire, LS29 8JZ

18/02/2026

Hi, I'm Dani 👋🏻

If you or your baby are experiencing any of the problems listed on my 'What is a Tongue Tie' post then don't hesitate to get in touch for support.

You are not alone 💕

Help is out there 🌈

You are doing great 💪🏻

I also offer services to help if you are struggling with processing memories around conception, pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding or loss. You can read more about these offerings on my website - link in bio 🔗
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🤱🏻 Personalised Infant Feeding Support
👅 Tongue Tie Appointments and Frenulotomy
❤️‍🩹 Trauma Resolution
🌙 Closing the Bones Ceremonies

📱 Get in touch if you have any questions at all
📆 Book Online - website link in bio
📞 07528 744222
📍 Ilkley Dental Studio, West Yorkshire, LS29 8JZ

07/02/2026

This gorgeous little one was almost 9 months old when he came to me for a much needed tongue tie release 👅

No, it wasn't all smiles and cuddles the whole time.

But you may be surprised to hear that it was for the vast majority of the appointment 🥰

Most of the appointment is spent understanding you and your baby, discussing your concerns, observing/supporting feeding and assessing tongue function through gentle oral motor exercises. 

With older babies, this involves lots of play!

The procedure itself is usually very quick.

Most babies are incredibly resilient and are soothed quickly by feeding and cuddles immediately after the procedure 💕

And because of their new found freedom, they usually have the best feed they have ever had in their life! 

This helps to calm them down and, particularly in older babies, it usually cheers them up and gets them smiling again too!

I know the thought of putting your baby through a procedure can be difficult to face

But please know the process can be done in a calm and considerate way

With patience and without pressure 

Discussing everything with you 

And exploring all the options with you

So that you can make a decision that feels right for you and your baby 💞

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🤱🏻 Personalised Infant Feeding Support

👅 Tongue Tie Appointments and Frenulotomy 

❤️‍🩹 Trauma Resolution

🌙 Closing the Bones Ceremonies

📱 Get in touch if you have any questions.

📆 Book Online - website link in bio

📞 07528 744222

📍 Ilkley Dental Studio, West Yorkshire, LS29 8JZ

08/01/2026

👋🏻 Hello, I'm Dani

Specialist Tongue Tie Clinics at:
⭐ Ilkley Dental Studio - Available to book now
⭐ Kendal, Cumbria - Coming soon!

⛰️ I am so excited to be starting a much needed service in the Lake District very soon!

🚗 Families in Cumbria have long been struggling to access specialist tongue tie support due to a lack of services in the area and I have had families travelling 2+ hours with their newborn babies to visit my Ilkley clinic. It shouldn't be this way!

✨ Very soon, new parents in the Lake District won't have to travel so far to get the help they need and deserve 🥳

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🤱🏻 Personalised Infant Feeding Support
👅 Tongue Tie Appointments
❤️‍🩹 Trauma Resolution
💫 Closing the Bones Ceremonies

📆 Book Online
📞 07528 744222
📍 Ilkley Dental Studio, West Yorkshire, LS29 8JZ

26/11/2025

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23/03/2025

• T O N G U E T I E •

Qualified Tongue Tie Practitioners are specially trained to diagnose a tongue tie following a thorough assessment. This involves taking a detailed history of your unique pregnancy, birth and feeding journey, completing a feeding assessment and observing a feed if required, and most importantly, carrying out a full oral examination which includes assessing the *function* of the tongue.

Tongue function is crucial to diagnosis as many babies (whether fed by breast or bottle) can be significantly impacted by a frenulum that, at a glance, does not look like a tongue tie.

So if you and/or your baby are experiencing any number of the symptoms listed and would like to explore whether your baby may have a restrictive tongue tie, then please get in touch 💕

07/03/2025

✨ After some oh-so-precious time away welcoming my own sweet bubba into this magical and chaotic world, I am now back walking alongside other families as they navigate the joys and challenges of life with their own new tiny people.

👣 As an experienced Midwife and Tongue Tie Practitioner, I am currently offering tongue tie assessments and releases, and holistic feeding support in Ilkley, West Yorkshire.

If you are having any difficulties feeding your baby, or you suspect your baby may have a restrictive tongue-tie, then please get in touch.

🤱🏻 Infant feeding support
👅 Tongue tie assessment and frenulotomy
🌙 Closing the Bones ceremony

30/12/2021

Number 6 of our Top 9!

“BEHOLD, My Mummy!

From 2 tiny cells she grew me. For nine months she kept me safe. She felt me, talked to me, trusted me. With every ounce of her strength, she brought me earth side safely. She will nourish me, hold me, teach me, love me. My mummy, my whole world.

She’s pretty astonishing, don’t you think?”

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19/04/2021

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Following last nights episode of Call the Midwife, which featured a Neonatal Death storyline, we would like to acknowledge that many of our followers will have been affected emotionally by these scenes. With this in mind we would like to remind you that our Supporting Arms Team are here to support you ###

Please reach out to us by:
∙Calling/Texting 0746 450 8994
∙Emailing support@achingarms.co.uk

17/04/2021

Families of all shapes, sizes and colours of the rainbow are welcome here 🌈✨

Love and family should be at the heart of the pregnancy, birth and postnatal journey.

There is no room for hate or inequality on this sacred path to new life, in whatever form that path may take.

🌿 All birthing bodies are magnificent.

🌿 And all non-birthing bodies are magnificent too!

🌿 Everyone is innately spectacular ~ I feel that overwhelmingly at every single birth I am lucky enough to bear witness to 🙏✨

Because, for me, midwifery is not simply 'with-woman', it is about all the magnificent, spectacular humans our words and actions impact on and the ripple effect that has in our society 🌊

And I think a gentle birth with loving, empowered parents is a flippin' good start to life for all the new, spectacular humans joining our magnificent families🙌

"Peace on Earth begins with birth" 🕊️❤️
-Jeannine Parvati Baker

30/03/2021

✨ S I D E - L Y I N G R E L E A S E ✨

This simple technique is astounding.

It provides a stretch to the deep pelvic muscles, releasing tension in the pelvic floor that may be causing a restriction or imbalance.

This stretching softens and lengthens the pelvic muscles temporarily, which can make space for your baby to adjust their position to something more comfortable for birth.

Babies are intuitive. They use all space available to them to be born. So when tension is released and space is made, they will use that space to adopt a more optimal position for birth.

This technique can be done antenatally and/or during labour. It can simply be used for comfort or it may be helpful if there are concerns about the baby's position or labour 'progress'.

Recently, I have seen the side-lying release work like magic when a baby's head is 'tilted' (known as asynclitic). The uneven pressure from the tilted head can effect the pattern and flow of labour, and make it more difficult for the head to move down through the pelvis. Either during or shortly after the side-lying release (on both sides), the mothers often feel something shift, the waves become more powerful and rhythmic, and the instincts of birth unfold... ✨

I am immensely grateful to Molly O'Brien, from Optimal Birth, who shared this wisdom with me. Through her Biomechanics for Birth course, I learned many simple and effective techniques like this one, which help to support the natural physiology of birth and reduce intervention 🙏

The Side-lying Release can help labor progress, reduce pain, and calm a tense pregnant person using a “static stretch” to slightly enlarge and soften the pelvis.