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Tongue Tie - Anyone in UK wih experience of this ( Cross Posted )
Sarah
Thankyou so much for all the info ( and Linz for the links ). I will pass it all on to my friend and if she has any further questions I will come back to you. I think she is thinking of having it done and the nearest to us would either be Brisol or Nottingham. Again I willlet you know what she decides. Thanks again Debbie "Sarah Vaughan" wrote in message ... Yes, me. My son was born with a tongue tie, which we eventually had snipped when he was two months old. The full story is a bit long to go into right now, but suffice it to say that I am now convinced that (1) it would have been a darned sight better if he could have had it snipped at birth, and (2) given that this didn't happen, I'm still very glad that we had it done when we did instead of faffing around for the next year the way the local authorities apparently thought we should. In message , Debbie Harrison writes My friend has a two month son who has a tongue tie. She is currently managing to breast feed even though his tongue tie is causing some difficulties. Is her baby gaining weight properly? Jamie wasn't, and we finally had to face the fact that it was due to his tongue tie despite the fact that the pain had almost settled. He just couldn't get the milk in properly. Unfortunately, by then my supply had gone down and it took a lot of pumping and hassle to get his weight up. She has been told by her GP and Hospital Paediatrician that nothing will be done about it until he is at least 2 when he is beginning to talk. Which is the same sort of misinformed rubbish I faced. Apart from all the problems with breastfeeding, it's also much easier to do in a small baby. Jamie's tongue tie was clipped there and then in the office, whereas if I'd left it until he was a toddler he'd have needed a general anaesthetic to get it fixed. I know it sounds harsh, but it only took a second to do and I could nurse him immediately, which comforted him. It really was so much easier than a hospital stay and general anaesthetic would have been for a toddler. Does anyone else have any experience of tongue tie and any useful infromation/help that I can pass on to her. Yes - Linz looked up some great links when this happened to me. http://www.babyfriendly.org.uk/tonguetie.asp will help her find the nearest person who will do it (unless she's lucky, she'll have to travel out of the area). http://www.babycentre.co.uk/refcap/552046.html and http://www.abm.me.uk/tonguetieresearch.htm have general info which she may find useful. http://www.kellymom.com/babyconcerns/bfhelp-tonguetie.html has lots of links. One of these, http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/110/5/e63/T1, is a scale which will allow her to evaluate the severity of her baby's tongue tie - when I rated Jamie's on this, I realised it was worse than I'd thought just from looking at it. However, it's from a medical article and has a lot of medical terminology, so it isn't the easiest thing in the world to use. Basically, if she's getting pain or the baby isn't gaining weight, I'd recommend she has it done even if she needs to go out of area. Many thanks in advance. You're very welcome. After the problems we had with this, I feel very strongly about helping out other people in the same position. Please let me know if she wants any more advice, help, feedback or whatever from someone who's BTDT. All the best, Sarah -- http://www.goodenoughmummy.blogspot.com But how do we _know_ that nobody ever said on their deathbed that they wished they'd spent more time at the office? |
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