Linda,
I just went through this recently myself. Here's what I got from Betty Crase
at the AAP:

>>The Academy does not have any statements dealing with tongue-tie, although
the neonatologist you mentioned is in error in saying that "the AAP
contraindicates frenotomies."  Indeed, tongue-tie was covered by Nancy
Wight, MD, FAAP, IBCLC, in a 1999 AAP Spring Meeting seminar entitled "S101
AAP-921 Controversial Issues in Breastfeeding - Ankyloglossia and
Frenulotomy."  If you are interested in a tape of the seminar, it should be
available two ways:

Contact Teach 'Em Tapes directly by calling 1-800-225-3775, and ask about
the seminar as described above, OR

Go to the AAP Web site (www.aap.org) and do a search for Teach 'Em Tapes.
They are supposed to be linked.

You also can find Nancy Wight's resources for research on ankyloglossia and
frenulotomy as the last page of the Spring/Summer 2000 (volume 2, issue 1)
newsletter Breastfeeding: Best for Baby and Mother on the AAP Web site as a
.pdf file.  Go to the AAP home page; click on Community Pediatrics; click on
Breastfeeding; then follow the prompts on the breastfeeding pages to get to
the newsletters.<<

Lisa Marasco IBCLC

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