A little trick to tell if your baby is sleeping with their tongue up on the roof of their mouth. It’s important that this begins right away and if it’s not up there, why?

If the tongue is resting low in the mouth, there could be tethered oral tissue involved.

If your baby is spending a lot of time with their mouth open or is mouth breathing during sleep the tongue is constantly resting on the floor of the mouth. This was likely many of us adults who are now dealing with TMJ issues, elongated and poorly developed facial structure, high vaulted palates, orthodontic relapse, and so much more.

This is when we need to start assessing the oral function as a whole and intervene as early as possible. Otherwise we end up with a sleep-wrecked adult years down the road who is set up with poor structural foundation and requires more invasive measures in their plan of care.

Side note: this is my baby Hazel at around 4-6 weeks old. She had a posterior tongue tie and lip tie. This video was taken before the release was done and you can see that even though she wasn’t mouth breathing, her tongue wasn’t where it was supposed to be (the roof of the mouth) because I’d the tissue restriction.

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