Very useful article in today's Telegraph about tongue tie and the views of an enlightened consultant paediatrician in King's College hospital London

[moondog]

Here

Thanks for posting that.

My DS was born with a tongue tie and I wish so fervently that they would look out for it at the hospital and sort it out there and then. It took our midwife to spot it when we were home on about Day 6 and by then we would have had to wait two weeks to get an appointment to sort it out. I got mastitis over the next couple of days and then gave up feeding because of that and DS not latching properly leading to feeding so so often.

Oh dear.
In days of youre apparently MWs kept one fingernail long so that they could nick it there and then.

My DD was tongue tied which I noticed a few days after she was born. I mentioned it to my DR as feeding was very painful (unlike with DD2) and she trotted out the standard response about policy being to leave it. Luckily I did a bit of research and found a specialist who saw me within 2 days and did the division there and then. As a result I am happily breastfeeding 10 weeks later - no thanks to my doctor. I would not have been able to continue without having the tongue -tie dealt with and the results were immediate.

Thanks, Moondog - article on the blog right now!