Specialized Support For Babies Who Struggle To Feed - Breast, Bottle, Or Both. 

Hi, I'm Jenna — pediatric occupational therapist, IBCLC, and mom of two.

I got into this work the hard way. Latching my son immediately after birth was excruciating, and I pushed through the pain anyway (like a lot of us do, encouraged by well-meaning people who told me it would get better). By six weeks he'd had both a lip and tongue-tie release, and the two of us had to relearn how to latch and coordinate his oral motor movements as a team. I remember thinking: if this is overwhelming for me, with all my training, how is anyone doing this without it?

That's why Beehive Postnatal exists.

My approach is body-first, mouth second. Feeding problems are rarely just about the latch — they're often about a shoulder that's tense, a neck that prefers one side, a jaw that can't release. I bring an OT's whole-body lens to lactation work: infant development, neuromuscular handling, sensory integration, and the mechanics of how a baby actually moves.

When my daughter was born in 2023, I worked through her posterior ties without a frenectomy, so I've now seen both sides of that decision firsthand.

When you know what's happening, you can do more about it.