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The Gentle Village, 7/114 Cedric Street, Stirling (2026)

25/02/2026

We’re so pleased to welcome Hayley to The Gentle Village 🤍

Hayley is a mama of 3, an Occupational Therapist and is currently completing her IBCLC training with us. She is practising in a supervised capacity under direct mentorship with Brenda, supporting families alongside our team.

Hayley brings a calm, thoughtful approach to care and is passionate about helping families feel informed, supported and confident in their feeding choices.

Welcome, Hayley! 🌼

14/02/2026

If your baby had a tongue tie release and feeding is still hard work or painful, you are not imagining it.

It’s not that the release “didn’t work” either!

I see this almost every day in my practice. Here’s my why 👇

Your baby’s tongue tie forms in the first trimester of pregnancy. That means your baby has spent months learning to suck, swallow against restriction. They compensate. They begin to recruit their jaw, neck and body (especially if you feel a crazy amount of hiccups in the late third trimester 🤔💡

When the tie is released, it just changes the anatomy. But your baby’s habits don’t change.

It doesn’t automatically restore function but it allows range for function to be restored with the right help!

This is why some families feel confused or devastated when feeding doesn’t magically improve after the release.

Function needs retraining. Just think about when we need knee or back surgery - we have physio before and physio after! A release procedure is no different!

Optimising feeding before AND after release with IBCLC support, oral therapy and bodywork is what actually optimises outcomes!

In our Gentle Guide to Tongue Ties, we explain:

👅 why feeding may not improve straight away
👅 what compensatory patterns look like
👅 how tongue posture affects airway and digestion
👅 what to do before and after a release
👅 and how to know if progress is actually happening

If you want answers instead of guesswork, this is for you.

Comment GUIDE and we’ll send you access - 60% off to get you started but it won’t stay at this price!

10/02/2026

If your baby sounds like a struggling little trumpet when gas finally comes out, it’s not just “all babies struggle with trapped wind”, especially when they’re so uncomfortable or visibly in pain! 💨🎺

Unfortunately, I see this all the time in clinic. Very uncomfortable little tummies, or babies who haven’t opened their bowels for days. And in the early weeks, this matters!

Did you know 👉🏻 Babies under 6 weeks of age usually p**p several times a day, including breastfed babies? From around 6 weeks the average is usually 1-3 a day! So when things slow right down, there’s usually a reason.

Often, that reason isn’t just your little one’s gut!

When feeding takes more effort (for example with oral restriction or poor oral function), babies can swallow more air during feeds. That extra air increases pressure through the abdomen. A tiny gut under a lot of pressure doesn’t move so smoothly, which is why reflux (even silent), trapped wind and delayed p**ping can often show up together.

Now add in body tension…

Digestive discomfort can cause tension through your baby’s diaphragm, abdomen and hips (lots of crying and hiccups doesn’t help either). The hips are closely connected to the abdominal cavity through muscles and fascia (including the psoas), which means when your baby’s hips are tight or locked up, their abdomen often is too…and this is where gut movement can slow down!

This is why gently moving your baby’s hip can help.

Working the hips helps reduce tension through this connection and creates space and allows that built up pressure to move or release.

This is the WHY to the “bicycle legs” technique you are often told to do to get your baby’s wind moving!

So when your little one’s body finally softens, that wind finally has only one way to go 🎺💨

This is why reflux, gas and constipation are often feeding and body issues, not just ‘normal’ baby issues and why looking at the whole picture matters far more than treating symptoms in isolation!

👉🏻 Did you know tongue ties can contribute to trapped wind and constipation? Comment “MINI” to get our free tongue tie guide and understand our why!

💫 Supporting tiny tummies 💕

07/02/2026

Reflux and constipation? Who knew it could even be a thing together!

If your baby hasn’t p**ped in days and they’re uncomfortable and feeding, whether on the breast or bottle, feels hard…then this is for you!

When your baby is uncomfortable, refluxy, gassy, or in pain, their gut doesn’t work in isolation. Their gut and brain are in constant communication (same as us). Remember that our gut is our second brain. So, when your baby’s tiny tummy sends distress signals, their nervous system shifts into a fight-or-flight state. In this state, their body prioritises to protect itself over optimal digestion and this response can lead to increased muscle tone and tension. I often see this tension through your baby’s neck, shoulders, diaphragm and hips!

Over time, this heightened state and body tension can also cause your baby to develop compensatory movement patterns to cope with how their body feels. They’ll adjust their posture or positioning during sleep, feeds and play time to try and relieve discomfort, but this can unintentionally continue to reinforce the tension. Tension in the pelvic floor is one of the reasons why your baby opening their bowels is difficult…and one of the reasons constipation and reflux so often go hand in hand!

This is why, at The Gentle Village, we often see body tension contributing to reflux and constipation symptoms. It’s also why we focus on supporting your baby’s whole body in order to make such a difference for them!

If you want help making sense and tracking your baby’s reflux symptoms, the Infant Reflux Symptom Tracker and mini guide can help! Comment “TRACKER” to get started! 💕

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05/02/2026

CMPI or tongue tie? They can look identical and often confused with each other!

Here’s the part that doesn’t get explained well enough:

Aside from skin reactions (which occurs only in 40-50% of cases) CMPI symptoms can look like this 👇
👉🏻 Frequent vomiting or spit ups after feeds
👉🏻 Reflux or “silent reflux” behaviours (arching, swallowing, discomfort without obvious throw up)
👉🏻Bowel changes at either extreme - constipation or frequent explosive, watery stools
👉🏻Mucus and sometimes blood mixed through stools
👉🏻Ongoing irritability, painful crying, or an inability to settle between feeds
👉🏻 Very short naps, restless sleep, frequent overnight waking
👉🏻 A tight little body that often feels tense or stiff and mistaken as “wind pain” or “colic”
👉🏻 Chronic congestion or a blocked, stuffy nose (without actually being sick)
👉🏻 Recurrent ear or throat infections or fluid in the ears!
👉🏻 Slow weight gain

Now, here’s what tongue tie symptoms can look like this 👇

👉🏻 Frequent vomiting or spit ups after feeds
👉🏻 Reflux or “silent reflux” behaviours (arching, swallowing, discomfort without obvious throw up)
👉🏻Bowel changes at either extreme - constipation or frequent explosive, watery stools
👉🏻Mucus and sometimes blood mixed through stools
👉🏻Ongoing irritability, painful crying, or an inability to settle between feeds
👉🏻 Very short naps, restless sleep, frequent overnight waking
👉🏻 A tight little body that often feels tense or stiff and mistaken as “wind pain” or “colic”
👉🏻 Chronic congestion or a blocked, stuffy nose (without actually being sick)
👉🏻 Recurrent ear or throat infections or fluid in the ears!
👉🏻 Slow weight gain

Can you see the problem? These are only some symptoms, of course! The symptoms may be identical, but the root cause isn't!

This is why IBCLC support matters! We can help you identify what the cause of your baby’s reflux symptoms are and guide your next steps, without unnecessary restrictions.

👉 If this helped things click together - comment TRACKER and I’ll send you my reflux tracker and mini guide to get started!

Save this. Share it. So fewer families end up stuck chasing the wrong cause ❤️

30/01/2026

Have you been told that lip ties don’t impact feeding?

When I first started working as an IBCLC years ago, I accepted that too. I even heard this taught by respected international professionals recently.

But one thing that really stuck with me recently was what said in his 🇨🇭presentation and that was that it’s okay to change your thinking…because that means you’ve learnt!

It’s a mindset that I’ve always believed in and one that I continue to practice, hearing it from Dr Zaghi empowered little old me to keep going! 🥰

The more I continue to educate myself, attend courses and even the years of clinical experience I continue to gain, the more I’ve realised that feeding doesn’t happen in isolated parts. The lips, tongue, jaw, cheeks and airway all work together as one.

So I’m here to say lip ties do matter, all ties matter! We need to be looking at the FULL picture and that starts with assessing your baby’s full function and how they’re actually feeding on the breast, bottle or even solids!

When I assess how a baby feeds I always ask myself a simple question: What changes when I change it? (Pretty simple yet powerful, huh?)

In this video, I don’t change anything except how this little bubba’s upper lip is positioned. Same baby. Same bottle. Same teat.

You can see when her lip is tucked in, her seal is weaker and mama can pull the bottle out easily. When her lip is gently flanged out on the bottle teat, mama immediately feels more suction and resistance.

That difference tells me something important…lip ties do actually matter when it comes to feeding!

When your baby can’t maintain a stable lip seal, they often compensate. More effort from the tongue and jaw means feeding can feel uncomfortable and hard work.

I’m not saying lip ties in isolation will always cause feeding problems (because lip and tongue ties usually come together). I’m not dismissing what’s been taught, it’s about staying curious, being willing to evolve and paying attention to what babies directly show us!

Do you have a baby, or know a baby that has a lip tie and feeding feels hard? Save and share this with them!

29/01/2026

Whoever came up with the word ‘silent reflux’ didn’t really think it through properly!

Silent reflux is not always so silent in your little baby! 💔

Babies don’t need to vomit large amounts or be losing weight for their discomfort to be taken seriously!

Your baby cries to communicate with you. Their little bodies that are holding tension and discomfort is also another way they’ll communicate with you!

These signs you see in this reel won’t tell us the cause of the reflux or diagnose reflux, because reflux is a symptom of an underlying issue and it’s not the main root cause of your baby’s discomfort.

To truly support your refluxy baby, we need to understand the patterns behind your baby’s symptoms. What’s happening during feeds, after feeds and across the day and night!

If you want to get to the root cause of your baby’s reflux, start tracking your baby’s symptoms and begin recognising the patterns that may be contributing to it all, comment TRACKER and we’ll send you a copy of our reflux mini guide and symptom tracker. 💕

Need a one-on-one consultation to help your refluxy baby? We can help! Link in bio to book your appt!

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27/01/2026

If you were told your baby’s tongue tie was “mild,” “small” or “it won’t impact breastfeeding”, but feeding feels hard, exhausting, not quite right or you’re still having to triple feed or top your baby up…

Mama, it’s not you, it’s most likely your baby’s tongue tie that’s the problem…because there’s no such thing as a mild tongue tie! A tongue tie is a tongue tie!

These are some early feeding signs I often see in baby’s that have a tongue tie and are working hard to feed (and mamas working hard too!)

These signs don’t diagnose anything but they do tell me that your baby’s feeding ability and oral function needs a closer look!

Comment MINI and I’ll send you the free mini tongue tie guide! 💕

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25/01/2026

Almost 4 years ago...and still stands true! 🫶

15/01/2026

Proper tongue resting posture matters more than most parents are ever told!

When your baby is at rest or asleep, the tongue should gently rest up on the roof of the mouth (the palate), with lips closed and the jaw relaxed. The tip of the tongue naturally sits just behind the top front teeth, often called “the spot”.

This isn’t just about the mouth though…It actually all starts with the tongue. 👅

Your baby’s tongue plays a crucial role in feeding, swallowing, breathing, facial development and sleep. Where the tongue rests helps support nasal breathing, keeps the airway more open, and allows breathing to stay quiet and efficient during sleep.

When your baby’s tongue sits low on the floor of the mouth, whether due to oral dysfunction, muscle fatigue or a tongue tie, breathing can become noisy, even when the lips are closed. This is why some babies snore, sound congested, or breathe heavily during sleep despite appearing to have their mouth shut.

A low tongue posture can also influence palate shape over time. The tongue acts like a natural palate expander in little babies and children. When it rests low, the palate may become higher or narrower, which can further affect airway space, breathing, digestion, feeding efficiency and sleep quality.

The tongue is also closely linked to the nervous system. When the tongue rests up against the palate it helps stimulate the vagus nerve, which supports the “rest and digest” system. This plays a huge role in calming your baby and supporting the release of serotonin and melatonin, both important for deep, restorative sleep!

When your baby cannot maintain this tongue posture on their own, they may seek extra sucking for comfort, feed more frequently overnight, or rely on a dummy (or thumb). Over time, this can look like a sleep issue, but the root cause may actually be your baby’s tongue!

This is why tongue position matters!

If your baby snores, struggles with feeding, or seems unsettled despite being tired, their oral function and tongue posture may be worth a closer look. We can help you!

Comment “MINI” to get started with our free Tongue Tie Guide! 💜

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