Any advice for breast feeding a baby with tonuge tie?

[me23]

my friend has a 1 week old with tonuge tie she only found out about the tonuge tie yesterday, she has been trying to breastfeed him but is having problems with latching on. any advice?
she is mix feeding withformula.

As far as I know she should see a BF counsellor (or GP) to be referred to a specialist to have it corrected. Someone in the BF support group I go to had her baby's corrected.

She needs to see about getting the TT snipped, me23.

Some TTs don't interfere with feeding at all. The ones that do need to be corrected.

It's a v. simple thing.

Thank u she is here right now, at the hospital they didn't give her any advice at all. A breast feeding counsellor has phoned and will be hopefully visiting her to offer some advice.

ds has a tongue tie, looking back i think it may be why it took a while for my supply to build, about 3 weeks i think, had to express as well.
We were never given any information or the affect it could have have on feeding.
His goes right to the end, even has a little dent on the end.
Unsure what effect it will have an speach, but will bring it up when he has hie 8 month check, see if they will cut it.

Both my dd and my friend's ds have a tongue tie. THey were born in the same week. THe little boy had his snipped at 7 weeks after a lot of feeding problems and then things were much better.

My dd didn't need hers done because feeding seemed to be ok, although looking back she was incredibly windy.

My theory is that her latch was never able to be that great. She also has a "tie" from her top lip to her gum which is pretty tight and can be seen when she smiles - I suspect that hasn't helped either.

The hospital didn't notice either - I had to point it out. I was half looking for it, because dh is tongue tied. He can't poke his tongue out, but it certainly never affected his speech!!

A bf counsellor is your best bet and may even be able to snip it for you - pretty painless I understand. You would probably be able to switch back to fully bf if that's what you wanted to do too

good that she's speaking to a bf cousellor as it might not be the tongue tie that's affecting the latching? not sure about the mix feeding with formula as it personally affected my milk supply when i tried it.

ds had tongue tie - never corrected but i had problems with fussy feeding and painful nipples. all realised in retrospect that this was our problem. second getting it corrected.

Get it snipped - one of my friends had the same problem and couldn't breastfeed because it was left too long and affected the latch.

Thanks for the advice I will pass it on to her, her ds is v.windy also. I guess this could be to do with it aswell.