Hi, went to a breastfeeding counsellor yesterday who believes my 6 week old has a posterior tongue tie. He is sometimes fussy on the boob pulling on and off, cries out with breast still in mouth, arches back and tense with some runny explosive poos. We have an appointment on Friday to get his tongue tie snipped.
She also suggested that I give up dairy to help his tummy. My HV has previously said not to give up foods to give his tummy a chance to get used to foods whereas she was shocked at this advice saying it was unfair for baby to be in pain if he's reacting to dairy.
My questions are...
Would you give up dairy now before tongue tie to see if any improvement in the next few days or would you wait until after tongue tie done on Friday to see if that fixes problems before changing diet? I have read that it takes 6-8 weeks to get out your system and so I'm worried I won't be able to isolate the two issues and see which one worked. I am already gluten free coeliac and so don't want to give up dairy if I can help it.
If I do give up dairy, how detrimental is it when trying to eliminate dairy in breast milk to have 'slip ups'. For example I am off to a wedding soon and it's too late for them to adjust dietary requirements so will likely need to eat dairy then. Will that then just affect him for that day or will that interrupt the whole elimination thing and I have to start again to build up to 6 weeks to see any improvement?