{"id":57,"date":"2007-08-08T22:08:29","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T04:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mommyspeechtherapy.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2016-10-17T14:57:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T20:57:55","slug":"how-to-reduce-drooling-in-infants-and-toddlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mommyspeechtherapy.com\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"How to Reduce Drooling in Infants and Toddlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When my daughter Sophie was about 6-14 months old she drooled excessively. She went through bib after bib after bib.  I knew that it was more than teething as so many people had suggested.  As a Speech Pathologist I had learned that constant drooling may be an indicator of low muscle tone in the mouth.  As a result I was determined to do everything I knew how to do to eliminate the drooling, knowing that low muscle tone can also affect speech intelligibility.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>I planned to nurse her until she was one year old which made it easy for me to bypass the bottle completely.  I weened her straight from nursing to a straw cup.  Once Sophie started drinking from a straw cup and I was able to cut her straw down slowly (as I explained in my post on <a href=\"https:\/\/mommyspeechtherapy.com\/?p=12\">Pacifiers and Sippy Cups<\/a>, her drooling decreased dramatically. She still drooled a little and so I decided to get her an electric toothbrush.<\/p>\r\n<p>How the electric toothbrush and straw cup reduce drooling:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The <strong>Electric Toothbrush<\/strong> 2x a day can help wake up\u009d the mouth by increasing sensitivity. Increased sensitivity makes the child more aware of their drooling.<br \/>\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/beta.mommyspeechtherapy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/drooling2.jpg\" alt=\"How to Reduce Drooling in Infants and Toddlers - Mommy Speech Therapy\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mommyspeechtherapy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/drooling2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/mommyspeechtherapy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/drooling2-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mommyspeechtherapy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/drooling2-77x55.jpg 77w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The <strong>straw cup<\/strong> strengthens the tongue so it is able to retract the drool to the back of the mouth to be swallowed.<br \/>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/beta.mommyspeechtherapy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/drooling3.jpg\" alt=\"How to Reduce Drooling in Infants and Toddlers - Mommy Speech Therapy\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mommyspeechtherapy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/drooling3.jpg 700w, https:\/\/mommyspeechtherapy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/drooling3-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mommyspeechtherapy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/drooling3-77x55.jpg 77w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The combination of the straw cup and the electric toothbrush was the solution for Sophie.  I was thrilled to be able to dress her with out a bib, not to mention how happy I was about less laundry!  If your child drools it may be worthwhile to give these exercises a try.  Best of luck!<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my daughter Sophie was about 6-14 months old she drooled excessively. She went through bib after bib after bib. I knew that it was more than teething as so many people had suggested. As a Speech Pathologist I had learned that constant drooling may be an indicator of low [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-early-intervention"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mommyspeechtherapy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/drooling.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mommyspeechtherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mommyspeechtherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mommyspeechtherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mommyspeechtherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mommyspeechtherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mommyspeechtherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3809,"href":"https:\/\/mommyspeechtherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/3809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mommyspeechtherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mommyspeechtherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mommyspeechtherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mommyspeechtherapy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}