Tongue tie released still struggling with BF

Hi , my daughter 6 weeks old had hers release a week ago and it’s the same for me no improvements it’s really hard mentally. They say it takes time for some babies and some babies there’s a different straight away. Keep doing the exercices make your LO move his tongue etc by rubbing your finger along his gum line. Do a lot of skin to skin. Try calling the NCT breastfeeding support and the national breastfeeding support line for more support and attending infant feeding groups or see a lactation specialist. Definitely consider doing cranial osteopathy I did it for my daughter and I saw a different in her tongue movement. Sorry I don’t have a positive outcome yet but I am hopeful it’s still early days.

I felt exactly like this ❤️ my little boys tongue tie was released at 8 weeks and for first 2/3 days i just cried thinking we had done it for no reason... After that it improved dramatically and did wonders for him really. He also released a hell of a lot of physical tension and was a happier boy. It took a few days to start to see improvements, hang in there! He's now 8 months and thriving 😊

Hey again Ibtisam I highly recommend you look into the ninni pacifier it’s a dummy that mimics what baby does at the breast. I ordered it and received it today and I can see how it helps my LO use her tongue movement effectively check them out on instagram and their website https://www.instagram.com/ninnipacifier?igsh=eWlwdHFseHNqZWhj

Also keep doing oral exercises like run your finger along their gum line , make them suck your finger by putting it inside their palate and then pull towards to strengthen the tongue line etc

Ok thanks yasmina

Hi, this was me a few weeks ago. I was so disheartened but all I would say is give it time. Within 48 hours the latch started to improve and a week later we have a really good latch. It was incremental changes each day. It’s so hard when you have so much hope pinned on it but I promise it will get better. Our tongue tie practitioner explained as imagine your arm had been pinned by your body all your life and one day someone let it free, aside from the fact that it would be a little bit sore, the arm would have no muscle and you’d have no idea what to do with it! You’d have to build the muscle slowly and that’s exactly what is happening here.

We are also doing Oesteopathy to help release some left over tension x

@Beth my little one is able to latch but it’s a bad latch she has this chomping style of feeding and she hurts me so much. I have been to feeding groups weekly since she was born a month ago now so it’s definitely not my positioning. It’s been a week now not much improvements still I feel like giving up because it hurts so much. Was you able to have a successful breastfeeding journey since ?

@Yasmina Ahh bless you, it’s so tough but you should feel so proud to get as far as you have with the pain, no matter what you decide to do moving forward. We are having a much more successful bf journey since although still a bit of room for improvement still. My little one could latch also but there was so much clicking and it wasn’t a deep latch so it was causing severe reflux. We are a 1.5 weeks on now and getting a deeper/tighter latch on the breast but not yet bottle. Bottle latch is pretty poor still unfortunately! After reading redit forums, I managed my expectations for up to 4 weeks before seeing the full effects so really does differ to the individual! Above all, put your mental and physical health first in all of this. Baby will thrive on breast or formula if they have a happy mum ❤️

@Beth thank you for such an inspiring journey I would keep my expectations up to more weeks as it has been only 1 week for us and my LO is latching without nipple shield but there is still a lot of room for improvement. I have still got nipple pain as he is not latching instantly, I have to pinch my nipple and put into his mouth. It takes some time for him to attain that deep latch and he gets really fussy and cries a lot x Also can you give me advice about reflux? My son has very bad reflux.