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I had only one experience and it was positive. My daughter (oldest) had both tongue and lip tie, we went with the dentist and laser. Our lactation consultant sp
by Fire-Dragon-DoL 2y ago
I had only one experience and it was positive. My daughter (oldest) had both tongue and lip tie, we went with the dentist and laser. Our lactation consultant spotted the lip/tongue tie, but she was able to get occasional proper breastfeeding position.
My wife's breasts were destroyed by day 3 though, she couldn't breastfeed anymore, so at roughly 1 month after trying many alternatives we went with the release.
It was incredibly painful to do and it was devastating for me to rub over the wounds for 15 days, but the results were great, there was immediate improvement in breastfeeding, no pain anymore. After 1 week my wife's breasts were recovering and my daughter has no speech impediment and was breastfed for 2 years on demand.
Still, I would have punched the dentist in the face when he said "she won't remember". The only person with empathy was the lactation consultant.
For what is worth, our lactation consultant provided high quality information and was the only person who was able to consistently get my wife to breastfeed properly while the tie was up. At the hospital they did a check as if it was a checkmark on a piece of paper (which probably was).
- giantg2 2y ago"she won't remember" This can be empathy - reassuring you that the procedure won't have any memorable negative impact. If you say you know that they don't use anesthesia dusnto the risks, then the fact that the pain isn't memorable is the best possible outcome.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 2y agoI have no doubt that was the best possible outcome, that's why we committed to it. But I don't agree on using "she won't remember" as a sign of empathy. That's an excuse. You could do horrible things to babies based on that. There are various resources for parents to help children deal with vaccination and one of the common thing is to never mention the pain, so using the won't remember excuse won't fly. And the parents do remember