x-posted -- Posterior Tongue Tie

[Ambiebambie1011]

DD2 is 12 days old now, and was diagnosed with a possible posterior tongue tie yesterday. We saw 2 lactation consultants and a health nurse.

A little backstory - DD1 had the same issues, but it was never diagnosed as a tongue tie. Everything seems to be exactly the same, just we have more knowledge this time around. I never developed a full supply, but managed to pump about half of her total milk intake until she was 9 months old with the help of domperidone.

All signs point to the fact that it's a big issue with DD2 -- My nipples are so sore, and she "chews" them to get letdown. She can't stick her tongue out and it doesn't come over her gums when she sucks on my finger. The poor kid can just barely latch onto a bottle without formula/breastmilk draining out either side of her lips! My supply is starting to drop, she's suddenly stopped latching to nurse today, and she's not gaining weight well. We have to wait until Friday to get it clipped.

Does anyone have any advice or suggestions? Will 3 days of not nursing mess up our relationship? We're syringe feeding half the time, bottle feeding half, and I'm still trying to nurse her at each feed, but she won't stay on without crying and unlataching a million times. I am pumping while DH bottle/syringe feeds. I'm only able to pump about an ounce and a half each session. I did start domperidone yesterday and am hoping that it helps as much as it did with DD1.

This is all so discouraging! I was really hoping that my experience with DD2 would be better, but is so far proving to be much, much worse.

[OSUvet]

Hang in there mama! My ds is my first, and we had a TERRIBLE start to breastfeeding, mostly due to a posterior tongue tie that was FINALLY diagnosed and clipped at 10 weeks. By that point my nips were completely bloodied and excruciating due to the chewing you've described. I had to bottle feed off and on during that first ten weeks, and then for almost a week straight to finally get healing. It took almost 2 weeks after the clipping of the tongue tie for things to really improve, but I think part of that was because he had learned to suck incorrectly all that time and it took some time to change that. But here we are at 11 months, and he still nurses like a champ :) You can make it to Friday however you need to, and then things should really improve from there, if not immediately, then over some time. Good luck!!