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I see these babies, too.  I refer them to Debra Beckman, oral motor skill
specialist, whose office is nearby.  With a few weeks of oral motor therapy,
it's usually corrected.  I have an "old iron jaws" now and mom is using a
nipple shield which has lowered pain and is doing the oral therapy that Debra
Beckman taught her.  These moms are always relieved to know that it is not
the mom and that it can be corrected.

> <<Craniosacral work is another possibility.  Haven't we all seen babies who
> just plain *hurt*?  A client wrote up her experience for me from some years
> ago.  It's at www.wiessinger.baka.com/bfing/trouble/ironjaws.html  He went
> on to have speech delays that ultimately smoothed out.  But his speech
> therapists agreed that the early bfing problems were probably a red flag.
>
> "Old Iron Jaws" took 8-10 weeks to loosen up completely.>>
>
Warm regards,
Pat Lindsey, IBCLC - Lactation Services  www.PatLC.com
Pediatrics Plus' Lactation Consultant   www.pedsplus.com
Orlando, FL
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