What are peoples experiences on tongue tie division?

[Newbiemum21]

Is it worth it? Does it cause distress and is private better over NHS? We have an appointment at the Royal London Hospital and l'm apprehensive due to previous hospital experiences at Whipps Cross (different hospital and department, but same Trust). wouldn't want DD to go through any distress and she already has colic.

Thanks for sharing, very reassuring to know re. the expressing. I just find the amount they recommend to express is so unrealistic after doing everything else and then trying to fit in some sleep. My DD latch is so bad that she gets very distressed when trying to the point where I'd rather not try it, so I really hope this works

We got DD's cut when she was a couple of weeks old. She cried for about 10 seconds - literally only until I managed to shove her onto the breast to feed. She fell asleep a few minutes later. It made an immense difference to her feeding, & my pain levels, although by that time a lot of the damage was already done, I have scars on both nipples around the central part due to the splits being so deep. They took a long time to heal & I used to wear the plastic shields when the splits were really bad, & also pump quite a lot for bottles because DD used to clamp down with a really hard latch, pumping was less painful. It got much better after a couple of months & she seemed to realise that she didn't need to grip me like an alligator hanging onto its prey either.

My dd had a terrible latch (unlike my first two babies). Could barely feed. Had tongue tie corrected and now she feeds like a dream, that was seven months ago and she’s still feeding beautifully, it made such a difference.
On a side note, I know a bit about those hospitals and trust your instincts / the impression you have of them.
I went private with the tongue tie, it was around £100 and worth every penny

What I mean is I’ve not heard good things about whipps cross. It may be the same trust but north mid is different and it’s better , from what I hear.

I didn’t get dc3’s done for various reasons. He’s now 5 and it’s been suggested by his speech therapist that I get it done now because it is impacting his speech.

Incidentally I had tt (split accidentally in adulthood), dc1 had it snipped to help with feeding, dc2 has tt but doesn’t seem to have any issues. So it obviously does have a genetic component.

I’m in the absolute minority here, but I had my sons TT snipped initially and then lasered privately when it didn’t work properly.
We were having horrendous problems with feeding and I seriously thought it would be my miracle cure. It wasn’t. He continued to struggle to feed from either breast or bottle, and it didn’t make an ounce of difference.
I wouldn’t say I regret it, beside I desperately needed to try something. I just think it’s important to be aware it doesn’t ALWAYS mean your issue will be guaranteed to be resolved.