Tongue ties are everywhere right now. Social media is saturated with photos of frenulums circled in red, before-and-after videos, and confident claims about what must be done. But feeding is not a photo — it’s a relationship between two people. And evidence-based care moves far more slowly (and carefully) than online trends. As a lactation consultant, my role is not to diagnose a tongue tie in isolation, but to assess how a baby and parent function together as a dyad , and t