In response to recent post: Healing frenotomy will have a blobbing looking white area at the endpoint of the incision (area closest to the tongue). It may appear red for awhile. The lingual frenulum is poorly innervated and for the baby to have a sore mouth would be unusual. the tongue moves the same whether on a finger or a breast, and therefore doing finger exercises in the mouth is no big deal but may be necessary to retrain tongue movements. I recommend starting tongue retraining asap unless the particular baby is having particular problems. My dental friends (Jon Pensyl and Greg Notestine) assure me that infection in the mouth from surgery is NOT common and would be highly unusual at a frenotomy site. I have worked with many, many frenotomized babies and have NEVER seen an infection at the frenotomy site, and quite a few required some retraining. Keep fingers clean or wear gloves. If a baby is having problems with infection, perhaps there is some other explanation for it? Cup feeding is one treatment modality. Finger-feeding is another. I have been doing finger-feeding for many years and have use dit successfully without addiction for most of those cases. However, the risk of addiction does exist. I would hazard a guess that there is also risk of addiction to cup-feeding as well. Neither method has been studied well. I think we need to use either method judiciously and as the situation warrants. What about rebirthing and lots of skin-to-skin? Alison