PTT and low weight gain?

[LadyDowagerHatt]

After weeks of low weight gain (which I posted on this board about) I contacted LLL and ended up going to see one of their consultants who said 10 week old DD has an ULT and a PTT. I am now waiting for an appointment to gnipple PTT snipped. It is the all too familiar story of this being missed by a HV, GP and a breastfeeding leader - that's a whole different thread but I am still annoyed at being told by the latter that I must be 'one of these women who just can't produce enough milk'.

Anyway, I have been reading up on PTT and it seems the majority of cases were causing pain for the mother when feeding. I had pain and bleeding in the first week but since then it has been fine, it is the low weight gain that has been the problem. I'm assuming that fixing the PTT will improve the efficiency of feeding and therefore DD's weight should improve - is this likely to be the case? As DD is a little older will she need to re-learn effective sucking?

get the PTT snipped. Not sure why it says nipple!

It will help, but it may not be an instant fix. It might take a while for your baby to adjust to the "new" tongue, and there may also be tension in the jaw and head/neck from the ties. Cranial osteopathy can help release this.

Ask to join the tongue tie babies support group on facebook, you will find a lot of knowledge on there.

And, if you possibly can, consider having it done privately with laser by a dentist who will also revise the ULT.

Dr Malcolm Levinkind and Dr John Roberts at the Cote Royd dental practice in Huddersfield are the two who have trained with Dr Kotlow and use laser.

Sorry, that reads like Dr Levinkind is also in Huddersfield. He is in East Finchley in north London.