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Tongue-tie awareness and early treatment campaign

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MoJangled · 15/09/2012 20:55

I'd like to suggest a campaign to help midwives, doctors, health visitors and lactation consultants to identify tongue-tie (much much) more reliably, and to get all maternity and HV services providing facilities to treat it early. It's chronically misdiagnosed and then frequently not treated, or treatment is very delayed, leading to all sorts of problems with BF, infant health, mother-baby bonding and PND. Discussion of the Day thread here has some really dreadful experiences. Given the amount that goes into promoting BF, it seems mad not to get a better grip on such common and soul-destroying issue. WHo agrees?

RowanMumsnet · 18/09/2012 09:41

Hello

Thanks for directing our attention to this one - sorry to see that so many of you have experienced poor diagnosis/treatment.

The campaigns team is rather snowed under at the moment with upcoming activity on our miscarriage and rape awareness campaigns (lots happening over the next couple of months), so we're unlikely to be able to do anything high-profile on this for now, I'm afraid.

We're very happy for you to organise among yourselves using Mumsnet as a base, and we can help push things out for you using Twitter and Facebook and so on. We have found in the past (the 'Career women make bad mothers' bus campaign and the Respite for Riven campaigns being cases in point) that MNers are often at their most fearsome and effective when they take ownership of something.

Do let us know if there's anything specific you think we can do (report your post to make sure that we see it) and we will do our best to help out. And when things are a bit less frantic (probably in the new year) we will have another look to see whether there are extra ways we can help out.

Thanks
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