10 week old with tongue tie

liliq

Hi all,

Just looking for experiences here, no medical advice please!

I just found out today that my 10 week old baby has a posterier tongue tie, which makes it seriously painful for me to breastfeed him and I also have vasospasm as a result. I've persevered so far, but I don't think I'll last much longer unless something changes.
I went to a lactation consultant today who was fantastic; very informative, supportive... just excellent. But I have a lot now to consider, especially if I want to keep up breastfeeding, and for the future as well with regard to speech etc.

Does anyone have any tips of feeding positions or anything that will make it easier for him to feed/ cause less pain for me while he's feeding?

Also does anyone have any experience of getting the tie snipped? I've done a search of old posts, and there doesn't seem to be any "bad" stories of getting a young babies tongue tie snipped, but I want to be aware if there are any!

Thanks in advance!

Gandhi

Our first lad had a tongue tie that a lactation consultant spotted when he was about two months old. His pediatrician spotted it only when we mentioned it to her. We went to a specialist and he even warned us that because it was minor it might not help with breastfeeding. We got it snipped because my wife was having issues feeding and we were willing to try everything.

It turned out that it made a huge difference. She started nursing him immediately after the procedure and I could see that his jaw motion was noticeably larger. Up to that point we had been supplementing with formula, but after the procedure we went 24 hours without supplementing for the first time since he was born, and within about a week we were off the formula completely.

Our second guy had a minor tongue tie so we got it taken care of when he was about a week old. We have no way of knowing if it staved off any potential problems that might have happened, as we did it so early.

The actual procedure is initially painful but only takes a second. In both cases my wife started nursing the baby immediately after and they both stopped crying within seconds. Neither of them showed any sign of pain after the fact. Neither time did the doctors use any painkillers, as they said the pain of injecting it would be worse than the pain of the actual procedure.

Acoshla

Ok, I don't know if I should post this because I don't want to appear to be scaremongering, but my Godson had the procedure done a few weeks ago at 4 months old. It's not a major procedure, but the aftercare has been relatively tough going, massaging the area every 2 hours including through the night had him and his parents exhausted, and he's been in and out of hospital with fevers, insufficient catch-up weight gain and various other things since then. It could just be a coincidence that he has these things wrong at the same time as having the procedure done but the aftercare routine definitely affected him purely because he was so exhausted all the time and it hurt when they massaged it. It had to be done for him though as he was losing weight rapidly, I know lots of babies don't have it corrected.

holidaygirl

My son had it and although and I am sorry I didn't have it done, and while I bf him for a few months it did make it more difficult. I am due again in a few weeks time I will be making sure this baby is well checked out and will get it done if it's needed. I am lucky in that the hospital I will be in has one of the paediatrician whom is very good at this procedure.

I have the number of his secretary if you are interested in his details. He's in Munster and you have probably came across his name if you have researched it. He has 5 children of his own and some of his own have had it.

January

My two month old has tongue tie, but nurse in hospital said it wasn't severe and they didn't cut them anymore unless there was noticeable issues with feeding. I only breastfed for a week and she fed well for that week, but notice sometimes with the bottles that it takes her a few times to get the suck on the bottle correct and it frustrates her...