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
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