Latching Difficulty
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Infant Team Management is Critical
This is my viewpoint on how infants should be managed with many providers involved. First-time parents can easily become lost…
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A Great Dyad Story
This is as good as it gets in my birth world. A woman, who had a long list of difficult…
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The Nostrils
This work keeps me humble. For 45 years, I had not paid any attention to the nostrils. Since they are…
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Oral Ties
These are my thoughts around the controversy of oral ties. As a periodontist, I regretfully did infant frenectomies in the…
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Oral Ties Revisited
A mom emailed me a typical case of oral ties and professional tunnel vision. Yes, craniosacral fascial therapy can help.…
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Three Short California Baby Stories
Note from Dr. Barry Gillespie: Thank you, Tori Matthews of Orange County, California, for sharing some short clinical “wins”: A…
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Small Mouth Opening
After the second tongue-tie revision, the surgeon said the baby had a small mouth opening—here’s why. A five-month-old presents with…
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A Tight Young Man
A young lad presented with the following history: His grandmother saw that “the doctor yanked him out with a twist.”…
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A Typical Gillespie Approach Fussy Baby
A two-month-old presented with sucking issues. He latched better after his tongue tie and lip tie revisions, but still had…
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Infant Neck and TMJ Pain
Note from Dr. Barry Gillespie: All of these posted stories are derived from my practice in the Philadelphia suburbs. If…
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