Host Kaile Garcia welcomes listeners to Newbies and introduces expert mom Hannah Watson, a military spouse in North Carolina and former preschool teacher, to share baby- and toddler-friendly fall craft ideas that can be displayed at home.

Hannah discusses her parenting journey with three kids (6, 4, and 1), including a miscarriage, and how her creativity was shaped by her artist father, supportive mother, and childcare background; she also describes documenting milestones differently across her children, especially during deployments.

They share favorite parts of fall with babies and emphasize crafts that are both keepsakes and functional decor, such as painted wood wreath cutouts, hand/footprint art, clay hand/foot impressions with ribbon for hanging, ornaments, corkboard displays, and rotating frames. Kaile adds ideas like painting pumpkins, sponge-stamp ghosts, leaf-tape trees, painting acorns, and a paint-in-a-Ziploc canvas activity for babies.

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Host Kaile Garcia welcomes Britt Peralta, a Louisiana-based infant feeding specialist, to discuss common breastfeeding struggles and solutions.

Britt shares her difficult start to motherhood after an emergency C-section, NICU separation, and postpartum mental health challenges, while noting breastfeeding went well for her. Drawing on experience in L&D, postpartum, and NICU, she explains that issues like pain, supply concerns, long feeds, fussiness, gas, and reflux are “check engine lights” requiring a full mom-and-baby assessment rather than guesses.

They cover when “just give it time” is appropriate versus when to seek help, how to evaluate true low supply and milk transfer (including weighted feeds), and why effective milk removal, latch/positioning, and proper pump and flange fit matter.

Britt also addresses nipple pain, tongue-tie function, combo feeding sustainability, and baby body factors affecting feeding, and shares how to find her practice, Feeding with Britt.

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Newbies host Kaile Garcia talks with pediatric physical therapist Meagan O’Neill about how oral restrictions and oral motor dysfunction can affect a baby’s whole body, not just feeding.

O’Neill defines torticollis, signs parents can notice (head tilt/rotation, head flattening, craniofacial asymmetry), why early PT intervention matters versus a “wait and see” approach, and potential impacts on head shape and motor skills.

She explains oral motor dysfunction as coordination issues of the lips, tongue, cheeks, and jaw, with signs like shallow latch, clicking, milk loss, gagging, coughing, bottle difficulty, and trouble keeping a pacifier in.

The episode covers gentle bodywork, fascia connections from tongue through the body, why tongue ties need therapy and aftercare beyond release, and how to find qualified specialists (IBCLC, OT, SLP, PT, pediatric dentist), including laser vs scissor releases. O’Neill advises parents to trust their gut and seek help early, including virtual options.

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