Bump Boobs Babi: Tongue Tie & Infant Feeding Specialists

17/06/2026

Waiting for a tongue tie assessment and division?

Did you know you may not need to wait so long by booking in to see us!

To book or find out more, visit our https://bumpb***sbabi.co.uk/clinics/cardiff-clinic

15/06/2026

Why do we call our groups specialist Baby feeding groups?

Because we fix the issues others can’t (or at least we’ll give it a pretty good go)

You don’t have to live with painful feeding, clicky bottles, shallow latch on breast or bottle, reflux symptoms.

Baby gaining weight isn’t the only thing that matters

We are here to do the detective work and walk through the winding path to easier feeding with you.

Because ok isn’t always good enough

We are both experienced IBCLCs, one of us has years of voluntary breastfeeding experience, while the other has 20 years of NHS experience and was an infant feeding lead.

Come and see us this week
Swansea tomorrow
Cardiff Roath -Thursday
Newport- Friday

SWANSEA: Schools back = FREE Specialist Feeding Group back on Tuesday

14/06/2026

Tomorrow we are back in Bridgend for our FREE Baby Feeding Group.

If you'd like to weigh your baby, ask feeding questions, or simply have a chat with other parents, come along and join us.

Whether you're breastfeeding, bottle feeding, combination feeding or expressing, you'll receive a warm welcome.

📍 The Cherry Laurel Pub, Bridgend
⏰ 10.15am – 11.45am
🚗 Free parking available

Pop in for a weight check, a coffee and a chat ☕

See you soon!

11/06/2026

A PSA notice for anyone who needs it: Babies should have necks!

In our practice we see a lot of little babies who think they are pigeons, their lovely squishy necks have disappeared as they pull their shoulders up and bring them forward (or back).

Those little lost necks are hard to clean, it’s hard to get into all those creases and these little pigeon babies are telling us something.

Try it for yourself; bring your shoulders up tight towards your neck and slightly forward and feel what happens to the back of your tongue.

Does it come closer to the roof of your mouth?

Babies who do this shoulders up and forward posture are telling us ‘hey I can’t keep a seal on the breast/bottle with my tongue. I need my body to help me’.

We should be looking for mid tongue restrictions (those posterior tongue ties!) and/or jaw tension.

Try this time to hunch your shoulders and push them back a little bit, this is a less common posture but notice how it opens up the back of your throat and lowers the posterior tongue.

Babies who do this are saying ‘hey my tongue keeps bunching up in the back and it’s super frustrating’ we need to be looking at neck tightness and side preferences.

Babies are clever!

They figure out the compensations.

We need to ‘listen’ to them and work out how to make feeding easier for them.

Feel like you’ve got a pigeon baby?

Book an appointment or pop into a group and let’s figure out what YOUR baby is telling us.

09/06/2026

KEEP YOUR MILK 🥛

There are two things that characterise an effective breastfeeding plan:

1️⃣ Keep the baby adequately fed
2️⃣ Ensure regular, effective milk removal
Everything else is secondary.

Today I want to talk about how so many feeding plans unintentionally stop breastfeeding journeys in their tracks because they fail to prioritise milk removal.

Take Sophie and baby Anders (not real, but based on so many families I see).

Breastfeeding isn’t going well.

Anders has a poor latch and can’t transfer milk effectively.

He’s losing weight.

A plan is made:

➡️ Breastfeed
➡️ Give a bottle of expressed milk or formula
➡️ Pump

“Triple feeding.”

In theory? Fine.

In reality?

Sophie is a human being on Earth.

Anders breastfeeds for 45 minutes.

Then Sophie has to prepare and give a bottle.

By the time pumping comes around she’s exhausted.

The pump gets skipped more and more often — not because she doesn’t care, but because she’s trying to survive and care for her baby.

Weeks later, maybe Anders’ feeding difficulties are improving… but now Sophie has low milk supply too.

And low milk supply is hard to reverse.

This is why, when making feeding plans, we should prioritise milk supply over everything except a fed baby.

Sometimes that means:

• Shortening breastfeeds
• Reducing the number of direct feeds temporarily
• Prioritising pumping if the pump removes milk more effectively than the baby

Because maintaining milk supply keeps more doors open long term.

Getting a baby back to the breast with a full milk supply is often much easier than rebuilding a suppressed supply from scratch.

We need realistic plans for real human parents.

Triple feeding is three jobs.

Most people cannot sustain it indefinitely.

So when choices have to be made:

Feed the baby.
Protect the milk supply.
Prioritise whatever removes milk most effectively.

If you're struggling with feeding and would like personalised support, our Infant Feeding Specialists are here to help.

📩 Send us a message, visit our website to book a consultation, or come along to one of our free feeding groups across South Wales. 💕

08/06/2026

Today's the day!

Our brand new FREE Baby Feeding Group in Bridgend starts this morning and we'd love to welcome you and your little one.

If you'd like to weigh your baby, ask feeding questions, or simply have a chat with other parents, come along and join us.

Whether you're breastfeeding, bottle feeding, combination feeding or expressing, you'll receive a warm welcome.

📍 The Cherry Laurel Pub, Bridgend
⏰ 10.15am – 11.45am
🚗 Free parking available

Pop in for a weight check, a coffee and a chat ☕

See you soon!

07/06/2026

Why WHO you see for feeding support matters 🤍

We see so many families who have:

✨ Been to every baby group
✨ Seen the local feeding team
✨ Spent hours Googling
✨ Asked social media
✨ Tried everything…

…and they're STILL struggling.

Not because they've failed.

Because the help they need doesn't match the problem they have.

We don't treat feeding issues with the same logic we use for literally any other health concern.

If I have a cold, I'll self-care at home.

If it gets worse, I'll see my GP.

If it turns out to be something more complex, I'll see a specialist.

Feeding support should work the same way 👇

A simple latch issue?

A peer support group can be brilliant.

Persistent pain, cracked ni***es, poor weight gain, reflux, clicking, or constant feeding struggles?

You may need someone with advanced feeding knowledge.

Complex feeding challenges, suspected tongue tie, low supply, bottle refusal, unresolved pain?

That's when IBCLCs and specialist infant feeding practitioners come in.

There is a place for EVERYONE in feeding support 💛

Peer supporters are invaluable.

Community support matters.

But peer support is not the same as specialist clinical assessment — and families deserve to understand the difference.

🤍We run specialist baby feeding groups across South East Wales, and this Monday we have a brand new group starting in Bridgend 🤍

If feeding isn’t going to plan, or you feel like you’ve tried everything and still don’t have the support you need, you’re welcome to come along.

📍 The Cherry Laurel, Bridgend
🗓 Mondays | 10.15–11.45am
🚗 Parking available on site

Please share with any local families who may benefit.

06/06/2026

Wondering what you'll find at our new Bridgend feeding group?

Let's take a look...

👶 Baby scales - because sometimes a weight check brings a little reassurance

🍼 Bottles - perfect for demonstrating paced bottle feeding

🧶 Knitted b***s - because how else would you know it's a feeding group?!

🐻 Honey Bear Cup - a great option for some little ones who don't get on with bottles

💡 Headlight - because assessing a tiny mouth requires good lighting.

💕 Friendly faces - parents supporting parents, with our Infant Feeding and Tongue Tie Specialists on hand to help

And yes, there'll be plenty of opportunities to chat about feeding, ask questions and weigh your baby too.

Join us at our NEW Bridgend feeding group:

📍 The Cherry Laurel Pub, Bridgend
📅 Mondays
⏰ 10.15am - 11.45am
🚗 Free parking

Will we see you there? Let us know below 👇

And if you know a parent who'd love this, share this post or tag them in the comments.

(Photo from one of our other South Wales feeding groups.)

05/06/2026

Is this a tongue tie?

There’s a Facebook group online where you can post photos of your baby’s mouth and people will say ‘yes it’s a tie’ or ‘no it’s not’ (actually they always say yes!)

Equally people regularly tell me someone looked in their baby’s mouth and said things like ‘they have a tie but it’s mild’ or ‘they don’t have a tie’

The real truth though is that you can’t diagnose a tongue tie on a photo or a glance

Tongue tie is a functional diagnosis. It’s diagnosed by doing a full oral assessment, looking at tongue movement, sucking skills and the frenulum and then making a judgement/scoring it and finally making another judgement as to whether a division is likely to help improve the function.

A baby can have a frenulum like the below with minimal functional impact and no feeding issues.

A baby can have a far back, short frenulum you only see when they cry and significant functional issues and major feeding problems.

They can have any sort of frenulum, functional issues and feeding issues and division might still not be the answer

It takes knowledge and skill in oral function and feeding to assess a tie. You need to understand normal oral function and how feeding should work to diagnose a tie and you need to understand potential causes of tricky oral function and have a broad feeding toolbox to make the call that a division is the best option (or that it isn’t)

Between us we have worked with feeding issues for 34 years, for an honest opinion on whether tongue tie division is right for your baby book online at BumpB***sBabi.co.uk