What if My Baby Won’t Swallow Food? Pocketing with Dawn Winkelman, MS, CCC-SLP

#308: Have you ever finished a meal and found food hanging out in your baby’s mouth? Are you supposed to go in there with your finger and get it out? How does pocketing happen and what can we do to help babies actually swallow their food? In this episode guest Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP will be walking us through what pocketing is and how we can help babies who don’t want to seem to swallow.

Listen to Dawn teach more about learning to chew and swallow on this previous episode, “How Babies Learn to Chew and Swallow with Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP @msdawnslp” at https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/254. 

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