Dd was born last Saturday with a 90% tongue tie. We got it snipped on Tuesday, and had 2 awful days of screaming and very reluctant feeding. We did a lot of tube/finger feeding with EBM.
Then we seemed to turn a corner and she started to latch and demand feed. Until today when we saw the consultant who had to reopen the wound as it had started to adhere. Dd screamed the place down and has been reluctant to latch since.
So we are back to tube feeding, and screaming. She screamed from 9pm til 00:45 tonight. Then she slept for three hours. I woke her up at 4ish for a feed and have just had an hour and a half of screaming. I've just managed to rock her off to sleep in my arms.
To make matters worse, she won't settle very well if I put her down, which makes expressing hard. Plus my little boy (2yo) gets a bit hysterical when he sees me pump.
I am so committed to bf, fed DS until recently. It is so important to me, but I just can't see us coming out of this.
Can anyone give any bright ideas if stuff we haven't tried? Or reassurance that she will come back to the breast at some point? Really wish I hadn't let the consultant reopen the wound as we were doing ok until today and I thought we had it cracked. Now, it's like she hates my boobs and won't even try.