My daughter is one week old. Breastfeeding hasn't been going ideally as I had very intense pain for the first minute of each feed and cracked, bleeding nipples but not going horribly either as the pain wasn't unbearable after a minute and she was getting milk- lots of wet nappies etc.
I suspected the pain wasn't caused by poor latch as I fed my older child for 6 months & midwife etc said my technique was fine. So instead went to see a tongue tie practitioner this afternoon. She diagnosed borderline case,25-50% posterior tongue tie & advised snipping. As my older child also had one snipped at 4 days old with no adverse affects I felt ok to go ahead with it.
The baby seemed really distressed after the snip and for the rest of today has been completely unable to latch. Mouth just really loose around my nipple, and she's getting really upset at the breast as she can't latch as she has been doing the past 7 days.
I feel terrible- like I've now caused a worse problem for her and have jeopardised our ability to breastfeed. Please can someone assure me she will be able to latch again?
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Disaster after tongue tie procedure?!
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hellowembley · 25/07/2017 20:22
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