Lip/Tongie ties

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Very positive for us, less air intake during feeds, less gas, more comfortable and less stressed baby. We had it snipped for our first (don't recommend) and lazered for our second (this worked so much better). Went from hours of evening discomfort, gas, screaming, to no screaming at all! We were told to pace feed which is also what helped change everything.

@May wow ! I want to do the laser as well. I have an appointment for an ent they told me he scissors were safer but I’m not sure about that I would think the laser was ? How was the healing ? Did insurance cover this procedure for you?

Lazer was really safe. The scissors can only get anterior tongue ties whereas the lazer is able to get more of it and more accurately. They are finding anterior tongue ties are linked eith posterior ones and the snip really does nothing. They give you regular exercises/mouth stretches to do for the baby and I hated doing them, so my husband did it. Healing went really well. A few days of fussiness and trouble feeding as the baby gets used to the new movement, and from then it's been much better. The exercises were more annoying for her than painful. We didn't even need Calpol/Panadol after the first day. I'm in Australia and don't have private health insurance so we had to pay like $800 or something

Both my children have had tongue ties. My son was born extremely premature so we had to wait a long time to get it corrected and he ended up with some feeding issues related to the tie. Because of that when they noticed the tongue tie on my daughter in the hospital we had them correct it right away. It is something that I don't see the downside for. Helping with things like air swallowed and better latch are great. With my son we saw huge improvements in those two things when we got his tongue tie fixed.

My daughter had both done at two weeks old via the laser. I do you recommend it. We had to do follow up stretches for a month. I did see improvements in her flange when sucking the bottle. I did have to stop breast-feeding prior to the removal. I think the key to a better latch is definitely doing the stretches post op. My baby only has a silent reflex problem once in a while when she’s over fed and not burped correctly. We use mommy bliss gripe water and Mylicon gas drops. Highly recommend both those two.

@Keiarra we had the laser procedure done. The postop healing process was very easy required several different stretches of her mouth for a month. We visited the Pediatrician dentist two days after this procedure. Then a week after the procedure, they also use red light therapy to help it heal. I’m not sure how a laser would be less safe than scissors that doesn’t sound right

Breastfeeding got way better for us after tongue tie revision. My son had a very severe tongue tie before, so he couldn’t get food down to his tummy well so he would feed for a straight hour and it was incredibly painful. So thankful we were able to go back to breastfeeding after his tie was corrected. We had it done by an EMT

@Kimberly did he get a laser or have it snipped ?

@Keiarra I believe it was snipped. I left the room cause I couldn’t watch but he actually didn’t cry and was fine