My daughter is a week old and after going to the lactation lady she mentioned that she is having issues with keep her tongue out. She can get the tongue out over her lower gum for the first few sucks of breastfeeding but then she pulls it back in. I have stoped brestfeeding for now as my nipples are severly damaged and just pumping. She is suggesting after I heal to use a nipple shield and see if that helps. Has anyone dealth with this and tried the shield and had sucess. or has anything else worked. We will be talking to her ped today about having the little piece clipped but I am not sure if I want to do that as she can stick her tongue out a little.
Update: Her ped. said that they call it functional tongue-tied. It doesn't have to do with the little part that attaches to the tongue I guess it is more of a lazy tongue in a way. She is doing better weight wise and she said the best I can do is just try the shield after I heal and see what happens. I guess I just wasn't meant to feed off the breast with any of my kids. I will continue to pump as long as I can with two other toddlers running around ;)
Thanks
and sorry for any spelling errors typing one handed with little time.
if she is tongue tied it does need to be clipped, I was tongue tied and mine had to be clipped. If it's not clipped it could effect her speech , and ability to eat other things.
The tongue clipping isn't a big deal from what I've heard, and can also prevent a speech impediment.
Try the breast shield, but if it doesn't work keep pumping. My daughter breast fed her first two sons, and dried up around 3 mos. With her third, she started pumping as soon as she got home from the hospital. He is now 9 1/2 mos. old and still drinking breast milk. She dried up at 3 mos. again, but she had plenty stored in the freezer.
My son had this issue, and I had a horrible time breastfeeding. I finally got him clipped after a month, but it was too late. With our two girls, we had them clipped right away, and they had no trouble. If her tongue isn't too tight, then the main reason for clipping would be for breastfeeding. She most likely would have no other problems later. Our son is almost 8 and has never had any troubles with speech or anything else. The procedure is very minimal.
I had to use a nipple shield with my son and it worked good. My daughter on the other hand something she was doing just didn't work between us. I had to pump the entire time. If I didn't have my husbands help at night I would have switched to formula. It was pretty trying for a while but I eventually got use to it and was able to stop pumping 2 months early because I had stored up so much milk.
