My daughter is nearly 11 months old and breastfeeding has always been a struggle. Initially, feeding was incredibly painful and there were days she couldn’t latch at all and I would have to express and then syringe feed her. Eventually (!!) a tongue tie was diagnosed at 3 months old, the nhs waiting list was 13 weeks so we paid to have it cut privately. I’m not sure feeding ever really got better, but she was prescribed ranitidine around the same time and she became much calmer generally. Fast forward to now and she seems to be finding it harder and harder to feed, I managed to get a referral to an infant feeding specialist who has said she has a tongue tie. Because my daughter is putting on weight (because she feeds for a minute or two every other hour, night included!), it would be up to us wether or not we want to get it cut. Because of her age I’m under the understanding a general anaesthetic might be used? It was horrible to watch the tie being cut first time and I imagine it would be pretty traumatic now without any anaesthetic? She doesn’t really eat any solid food, just very smooth purées on a spoon and won’t take a bottle.
Would you have the tie cut? Or perceiver and hope the tongue tie doesn’t have any implications? I don’t know what to do.