If your infant is having any kind of feeding difficulty, the first line of free-advice-giving typically lands on "Do they have a tongue tie?!" followed by the advice-giver poking around in the baby's mouth and then saying something like, "Ah! See it! Right there! In the front!" and then the baby makes a big gag and their jaw opens wide and the tongue comes all the way out as they gag, and the person says, "Well, they can stick their tongue out of their mouth so it is probably

Okay, that was just fun to write! I want to write a little introduction into my overall philosophy of infant development or "Rae-ology" based on what I have seen over time, both personally and professionally. It sounds simple but the truth is, we (grown-ups) tend to judge our infant's abilities from a, well, judge-y place. Issues of breast and bottle feeding: hard to latch, gassy, colic-y, leaky tend to get labeled "fussy", "messy", "lazy". But the simple truth is, a baby ca