Why Does My Baby Yawn During Mealtimes with Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP

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Is your baby yawning in the middle of their meals? Are they tired? …just bored of your food? What gives?! In this episode SLP Dawn Winkelmann is exploring some reasons about why your baby is yawning at the table…and it’s not what you think!

SUMMARY OF EPISODE

In this episode we’re talking about:

• Why babies yawn at mealtimes…it’s not because they’re bored

• When you should call a stop to a meal in order to maintain safety

• How babies demonstrate their oral motor capabilities with non-verbal cues to us at the table

ABOUT THE GUEST

• Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP is a speech language pathologist specializing in pediatric swallowing

• She is the award-winning product designer for ezpz and created the Tiny Cup and Tiny Spoons for baby-led weaning

• Dawn is passionate about helping babies start solid foods safely

OTHER EPISODES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• Episode 377 - Safe High Chair Positioning

• Episode 7 - Why Your Baby’s High Chair Needs a Footrest

• Episode 261 - DIY High Chair Hacks for Safer Baby-Led Weaning

LINKS FROM EPISODE

• Follow Dawn on Instagram @msdawnslp

• Dawn’s website: https://www.msdawnslp.com/ 

• Dawn’s feeding blog on ezpz: https://ezpzfun.com/pages/blog 

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