How to get baby to learn to re latch after tongue tie snip?

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Hi all any help or insight appreciated! My LO is 13 days old. He had his tongue tie identified and snipped last week as he was not latching well and BF has been painful. First feed after snip was amazing. After this we have had a couple of good feeds but mostly like we were before. The midwives and others have told me just to persevere and it will get better, but I want to know how help him improve the latch? If I keep taking him off to re-latch I'm worried he won't get enough. Do I just keep feeding as normal and wait for it to improve? We do all the post tongue tie excercises and visiting an osteopath, but is there anything more I can do or is it a case of waiting? Any help appreciated as I'm getting desperate and it's taking a toll on my mental health. Thanks x

I would keep taking him off to relatch tbh. I know it’s upsetting when they are hungry but otherwise the bad latch will get more cemented (and sore).

There might be a half way option of nudging his chin downwards when he first starts (but without fully unlatching) to encourage a more open mouth and deeper latch - this works for some.

I don’t have any answers really but this happened to me. I just kept on, with nipple shields to manage the shallow latch and pain, plus doing the exercises daily. The ‘flipple’ technique helps a bit with getting a deeper latch.
However, my baby’s tongue tie reattached and we’ve just had it divided for the second time, at 12 weeks.
So if it doesn’t get better over time it’s worth having it looked at again.