I'm quite upset. DD went to the tongue tie clinic today to be snipped, and she's been gaining weight very slowly. She only regained her birth weight today, at six weeks. While we were there, the lactation consultant checked my breasts and told me they were tuberous, meaning I lack breast tissue and therefore will have low milk supply. She was very pessimistic about my chances of continuing to feed only breast milk. Her colleague was less so, and we've agreed I'll spend a week pumping, and letting DD use her new tongue skills, to see if that gets supply up. It does make sense; my breasts haven't changed size, nor did my milk 'come in'. I've already been taking domperidone for five days.
Coming home and googling, I see that around a third of women with this condition do manage EBF - not the picture she painted at all - and that some women do not have milk ducts. I do, and have sustained a tongue tied baby for six weeks, without expressing, although obviously not enough. She is very happy and alert, and developmentally strong, but feeds very often. Weighing before and after the feed today showed she got about 30ml, and that took 40 minutes.
Does anyone have any advice or experience of this condition. I'm feeling quite shattered and demoralised to be honest. In a week, if she's not gaining enough, they will insist on formula top ups, and I can't make my baby suffer if I can't feed her myself.
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Help. Tuberous breasts: what do I do?
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StiffyByng · 29/06/2011 21:32
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