newborns with tongue-tie

Hi
I just wanted to reassure parents who have been told their child has a tongue-tie. We discovered our son was tongue-tied when he was a few days old. He had been crying a lot and restless at the breast and i was extremely sore after feeding him. During a midwife visit, she noticed he was tongue-tied when he was crying. She referred us to a local post-natal ward that had a specialist midwife who was able to perform the tongue-tie separation.

We were taken to a room where the specialist nurse explained what would happen. I have to admit i was too distressed to stay so i asked my husband to hold our son whilst it was done. Sterile scissors are used to snip the the tongue-tie and immediately a swab is used to stem blood flow. I'll be honest - they do scream whilst it's being done.

My son was then brought to me for a feed as we were told that putting him to the breast immediately would soothe him and also help stem the blood. As soon as I fed him, he stopped crying and soon fell asleep. I'd worried myself silly about it being done but our son was fine and it wasn't anywhere near as bad as I thought it would be!

We had no problems afterwards and it healed fairly quickly. He was able to breastfeed more easily and we were told it would also benefit his speech development.

Hope this reassures someone.

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