Sentences with phrase «motion of the tongue»

ᴣh - onᮤ peristaltic motion of the tongue during breastfeeding.

In the opinion of Dr Helen Zongas an experienced Sydney dentist, «The tongue plays its role in the neuromuscular balance of the stomatognathic system... It is well proven and very obvious to the clinician that tongue tie creates an impaired and limited range of motion of the tongue.

So long as the seal remains intact, the infant obtains milk easily by using a peristaltic - like motion of the tongue to compress the flattened soft breast nipple against the palate.

Furthermore, the motion of the tongue and jaw is similar to what the baby does while feeding at the breast.

Not exact matches

A tongue tie restricts the tongue's range of motion.

Having a tongue that is tied to the base of the mouth can make it hard for a baby to breastfeed because there are several motions his tongue needs to make to remove milk effectively.

Contrasting the mechanical aspects of breastfeeding with bottle feeding, Weber13 noted that in breastfed babies the tongue action appeared to be a rolling or peristaltic motion.

But because tongue - tie limits the range of motion of a baby's tongue, the condition can cause problems with feeding, swallowing, and speech — not to mention licking an ice cream cone down the road.

Early signs of hunger include opening the mouth, sticking out the tongue, puckering the lips in a sucking motion or placing hands in the mouth, according to KidsHealth.

When sucking on the breast, baby's tongue makes a wave - like motion; it begins at the tip of the tongue and moves toward the back.

This means baby uses the main part of the tongue in a soft wave motion over the nipple.

When your baby is latched on properly and breastfeeding, the motions of your baby's jaw, gums, and tongue help to pull the milk through the ducts and out of your nipple into your baby's mouth.

With my daughter, what we're trying to do is get occupational therapy so she can learn how to use her tongue now that she has free range of motion.

Your infant's sucking motions might slow down before the biting begins; because of how the tongue naturally covers the lower set of teeth, you baby will not be able to bite you in the middle of a proper latch.

As I explain in my Today's Parent article on sippy cups «children use an immature, infant - like sucking motion when drinking from a sippy cup, and the spout prevents the front of the tongue from elevating during swallowing.

With apraxia of speech a person finds it difficult or impossible to move his or her mouth and tongue in fluency motion to form speech and speak.

Problem: Sometimes babies have a hard time latching on because of anatomical mouth problems, like a high arched palate, a tongue that is too large or has a limited range of motion, or abnormalities with the chin, jaw or palate.

These motions of bobbing and licking and sticking their tongue out are important reflexes to allow to establish a good sucking motion for the latch, rather than one which just rubs your nipple across the roof of their mouth.

Since breastfeeding requires a baby has full range of motion with his tongue, jaw and neck, some babies may require a little extra assistance to relax these areas and their central nervous system.

Ask your Lactation Consultant for the handout, «Frenotomy and Breastfeeding,» for tips to help you and your baby learn this new skill as well as to find some tongue exercises to help your baby's frenotomy heal appropriately and to help your baby's tongue utilize its new range of motion.

Babies rely heavily on their lips and tongues to breastfeed and a frenotomy (also called frenectomy) can be performed to help the gain the full range of motion they need to effectively transfer milk from the breast.

This will force his tongue to move in more of a glide vs. a short flicking motion.

Typically, the lingual frenulum separates before birth, allowing the tongue free range of motion.

Massage mode imitates the fast fluttering motion of baby's tongue which stimulates milk to flow when they first latch onto the breast.

And if you son is having a challenging time creating an effective suction with the nipple shield, it could actually be caused by a tongue tie which limits a babies range of motion and sucking effectiveness.

Well, from a mathematical point of view, kiki and the spiky shape both have «sharp» components that are not so pronounced in bouba; similar sharp components are present in the tongue and hand motions needed to make the kiki sound or draw the kiki picture.

Through complex programming and smooth motion - control systems, each dinosaur was given a range of realistic behaviours such as dilating pupils, coordinated muscles, and tongue movement.

Slow - motion X-ray footage of mudskippers using a «water tongue» to capture food on land offers a clue to the way tongues evolved

Unlike arms and legs that rely on bones to behave in a familiar way, like classical levers, tongues operate bonelessly like the tentacles of an octopus, with the motion of any lone muscle depending on the activity of surrounding muscles in a complex manner that researchers do not yet fully grasp.

Furthermore, the motion of a bone in the fishes» throat, known as the hyoid, closely resembles that of other terrestrial animals, especially newts, which use true tongues to eat.

They preload most of the motion's total energy into elastic tissues in their tongue.

For the first time, the researchers were able to understand the rapid motions of the back of the tongue that produce unusual inhaled consonants.

Scrape your tongue with a tongue - cleaner or any kind of scraper in a downward motion, but be careful with the amount of pressure.

His right hand darts from wheel to shifter to wheel again in milliseconds, recalling those slow - motion biology films where a frog zaps a hapless insect with a flick of its tongue.

Don't bother the tongue side of the teeth or focus too much on the motion.

Yoshi not only has a more floaty jump to help Mario across more dangerous chasms, but he also provides the game's best use of motion controls, as Yoshi's whiplike tongue is controlled by pointing the Wii remote to gobble up enemies or interact with objects.

Forti's engagement with movement and language includes her News Animations which are improvisations in movement and spoken word, as well as her books including Handbook in Motion (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Press, 1974) and Oh, Tongue, published and edited by Fred Dewey (Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 2003).

Most of the motion's total energy is preloaded into the tongue's elastic tissues.