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It is very frustrating to new mothers to have a baby still not nurse well after a frenotomy. Sometimes a tongue tie is diagnosed in the hospital and the infant frenulum is 'released' in the nursery. Other times a baby has a frenotomy done later after struggling with breastfeeding for days, weeks or occasionally months. While most of the time improvement is immediate, at others, it is not or improvement is marginal. Some parent’s even consider having their baby’s frenotomy

It is very frustrating to new mothers to have a baby still not nurse well after a frenotomy. Sometimes a tongue tie is diagnosed in the hos

After birth, your baby may not be able to latch immediately or even for a few days after birth or the first week. You may assume this is a permanent condition and you should give up on breastfeeding before you start. However, a lot of infants have trouble latching or maintaining suction the first few days and sometimes weeks after birth. With patience and situation appropriate treatment, most babies quickly learning to breastfeed. Dispelling the myths People often believe

“I hesitated to get help with breastfeeding but it doesn’t really matter how my baby feeds, right?Because bestfed is best." Nothing is more dismaying than hearing a new mother who is pumping every 2-3 hours to provide breast milk for her baby, dismiss her efforts or her need to get her infant who is currently exclusively bottle feeding to the breast so she can stop pumping 24/7 and get more sleep. For those of you who haven’t heard the term bestfed, it means whatever feedin

Many mothers are often surprised after birth the hardest part of caring for their newborn is breastfeeding. They have been told breastfeeding is natural and easy, so they are often unprepared when their new baby cannot latch after birth. There are a myriad of reasons breastfeeding goes wrong, most of them surprisingly are cultural or hospital policies that change from hospital to hospital and seemly, staff member to staff member. So what to do? Most mothers give up in the f

Recommended Book of the Month: 'Clinics in Human Lactation -- Emotional and Physical Trauma and Its Impact on Breastfeeding Mothers' ... By Dianne Cassidy, MA, IBCLC-RLC, ALC Excerpt: When identifying reasons why women abandon breastfeeding, or refuse to initiate breastfeeding altogether, we need to look at the role emotional and physical trauma plays in breastfeeding. Emotional and physical trauma suffered by women at a young age, during pregnancy, during labor and deliver