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Have permission to post -- baby is almost 3 weeks old and I saw him at 5
days when he was still having dark scanty stools and pees, looked jaundiced too.
Mother's nipples were quite sore and fairly flat, but not inverted. Baby
had a very shallow latch and bunched tongue. We managed to latch with a
nipple shield and used tube feed in that as well to get more milk into him. He
would slip down to tip of shield as he would at breast. Mother has begun
supplementing more and more with EBM, first with Soothie nipple and now switched to
Avent nipple cause she heard it was "just like the breast." No comment.
Anyway, I finally convinced them to see a local ped about the baby's tongue
which I believe may well be a posterior tongue tie and he said that there was
nothing wrong with the baby's frenulum and she should "just keep on trying."
She is very frustrated and says that now, he does not even open wide for
nipple shield and is pinching her when he does latch onto shield. She feels he is
getting even worse from all the bottles. She has managed to keep him
gaining weight. Doc did say that baby has "a funky suck and is not lifting the
end of his tongue. He is curling his tongue and rolling it so that the nipple
ends up in the side of his mouth." Oh my. The only thing I have left in my
back pocket is to suggest they go to the pediatric dysphasia clinic, but I am
out of ideas now. Do you all have any? Thanks, Ann
Ann Conlon-Smith, IBCLC
Triangle Lactation Consultants
919-845-8826
_www.trianglelactation.com_ (http://www.trianglelactation.com/)
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