Advice needed on use of bottle and dummy after TT snip.

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Hi,

DS has had a posterior tongue tie snipped today (he's nearly four weeks). We've been giving him a dummy and an occasional bottle to give me a breather.

Does anyone have any advice on these, will the occasional ten minutes with the dummy or bottle do him any harm whilst he's healing?

Thank you.

When my DS had his tongue tie snipped I was told to bf as much as possible to help with the healing.

I would leave off the bottle and dummy until you've got your bfing fully established; after all you don't n to go to the trouble of getting the TT snipped only for your DS to get nipple confusing etc, etc.

Mind my DS couldn't feed at all so he'd been on permanent bottles! I don't remember using a dummy with him until he was older.

I'd leave it a couple of weeks, personally.

Congratulations, by the way, it's such a relief to have the TT snipped!

Sorry about the typos - on iPad keyboard!

DD had hers snipped and was exclusively FF- the advice was to get her feeding as soon as possible. I think the more movement the better.

I'm not sure about dummies as she never took one anyway.

My TT surgeon suggested giving my LO a dummy to stop scar tissue forming, so it could be beneficial. Not that she would comply!

Our LO had his posterior tt snipped yesterday at 9 days old. We were told that posterior ties are far more likely to reattach so to bf as much as possible to keep the tongue moving.

I would avoid a bottle or dummy for now because of the risk of infection with an open wound in his mouth. Obv your boob is sterile and your milk has healing qualities.