05/02/2026
Feeding difficulty 🚩 Red Flags 🚩 that you may or may not notice with your little one:
- Lip blisters - those little lightly colored bubbles on their lips, may be present after birth and while baby is learning to feed. But if they stay around or get worse within the first few weeks, it’s time for a feeding evaluation. Your baby may be using their lips 👄 more to feed than their tongue. 👅
- Red creases around their lips, under their nose, their chin. That’s a sign of facial tension and fascial strain during the use of these muscles. Again - recruiting extra muscles to feed, when their tongue should be holding most of the work.
- White milk tongue! Little tongues should be like a self cleaning oven. If it isn’t thrush, then it should be easily wiped away by baby’s own palate with every swallow. Then it’s time for us to take a look and see why baby’s tongue isn’t lifting into the palate like it should.
There are many more signs we see as International Board Certified Lactation Consultants, RNs, OTs, and SLPs that we pick up as soon as we sit down with you and baby.
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