DD is four months old. We struggled a lot with breastfeeding. I had bleeding nipples from day one, she often really struggled to feed, and lost too much weight. A midwife "checked" her tongue by peering in her mouth on the dark postnatal ward, and declared she did not have tongue tie. A doctor told me she was "perhaps just a lazy baby".
After a little while the bleeding healed but I had sore, bright red nipples. I was told it was thrush and given cream for it.
DD would feed for hours and hours and hours on end. I now realise it was way beyond normal cluster feeding, but at the time I was just told that babies like to feed a lot.
She also had bad reflux, she would be sick constantly (and still is). I took her to the GP and she was prescribed gaviscon and ranitidine.
I spoke to numerous midwives, HVs etc, who watched her feed and said it looked fine. A couple of people did ask if she had tongue tie and I said no, she'd been checked. But she was really unsettled, never ever seemed satisfied, still often had trouble latching on, and in the end I'd just had enough and I gave up and switched to bottles at nine weeks. Once we found the right bottle, things have been much better.
I recently got talking to a couple of people at baby groups who said that their babies had exactly the same symptoms. Both their babies had tongue ties. It got me thinking and I decided to take her to an ILBLC, partly out of curiosity.
She's got posterior tongue tie.
If this were AIBU I'd ask...AIBU for being angry at our postnatal care?? But as it's not, I just wondered if anyone was in a similar situation and whether I should look into doing anything about it or if there's no point now that I'm not breastfeeding?
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MicrophoneFrog · 21/09/2016 12:52
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