Many of us who have been around for a while have unhappy tongue tie stories 
in our history. I have dealt with many physicians (and still work with many) 
who do not believe tongue tie is a problem. I have been yelled at, reported, 
laughed at and in general treated poorly when I educate a mom about tongue 
tie if her physician has other ideas. I have known people who have been fired 
from their hospital position because they told a mother that her baby was 
tongue tied. Tongue tie runs in my family, and my fourth child was tongue 
tied, so I have family history of this as well. My brother was tongue tied, and 
on the delivery table, the physician pulled a pair of scissors out of his pocket, 
and clipped it without even saying a word to my mom. She was horrified and 
he just said, "well, he's breastfeeding so this needs to be done." No sterilized 
scissor, no permission slip.... No big deal.

Anyhow, I have just returned from Maine, where my daughter had her second 
baby by repeat c/section at York Hospital in York Maine. I was at home with 
her 2 year old. She called me when baby Wyatt was born to tell me all was 
well. She said "the nurse says he is tongue tied, and wonders if we want it 
clipped." I was surprised to say the least. The nurse had noticed it. The nurse 
had suggested it be clipped.
My daughter said his nursing felt "softer" than her two year old. He nursed 
frequently despite his jaundice,and was back to his birth weight by one week 
of age. At the one week check up, she told her pediatrician that he was tiring 
out after a few minutes of nursing and was unable to sustain his latch for long. 
She was not in pain, he was wetting and stooling well, and he was gaining 
weight. The pediatrician said that if my daughter felt he was having latch 
problems, she would go ahead and clip it. And she did. And that was that. I 
can't tell you how happy I was that her pediatrician recognized that tongue tie 
was a problem, she did not have to fight to get it clipped, or go searching for 
someone who would do it, and it was in general no big deal. Once again. There 
is hope!
Ann Calandro, BSN, RNC, IBCLC
North Carolina

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