Posterior tongue tie - did releasing it make any difference to your baby?

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Specifically POSTERIOR, rather than the more commonly occurring anterior tongue tie. Baby has trouble laying her tongue flat for effective sucking and just wondering if anyone else experienced this and any difference after its release?

We have decided to have it done regardless as it cannot harm, but just not sure if it will fix our issue as we hope?

Would love to hear your experiences, thank you.

Anyone?

Hi there
My baby ds had his posterior tongue tie snipped when he was 13 days old. It made a huge difference to him and to breastfeeding. Previously he was unable to transfer sufficient milk and I was having to express every three hours and give him the expressed breast milk by bottle after every feed. It was exhausting and I have no idea how long I could have continued doing this. At 5 months old he is absolutely fine.

I had a lot of support from an amazing lactation consultant, which was much needed and valued. We had the op done privately with Mr Patel at the London tongue tie clinic in Croydon. He also runs a clinic at King's hospital in London. They demonstrate and advise wound management to prevent re attachment and although it is torturous to do it, it's well worth it. My ds' tongue tie did not reattach but I've heard numerous horror stories.

Good luck

Made a difference for Ds. He was unfortunately 4.5months before it was diagnosed bit it definitely helped.

Yes, 75% tied all posterior according to the lovely lady who snipped it at 9 weeks. He fed better, my nips stopped hurting (I hadn't even realised how much it had hurt until I caught myself flinching and bracing for pain that didn't come one day!) Plus he was less gassy, less reflux-y, and far less grumpy in the evenings. Well worth it.

It was hard to spot that he was tongue tied to start with as there was no anterior tie, but then when he got bigger I noticed his tongue was making a funny shape. I saw a wonderful lactation consultant who glanced at him and straight away said "yes bad tongue tie". She explained that around 8/9 weeks their heads have a bit of a growth spurt and suddenly the tongue tie becomes more problematic as the tongue has more work to do while it catches up in size. So if your baby is less than 8 weeks, if you didn't have it cut the issues could get much worse before they got better.