I am really learning a lot from this thread on clicking while nursing.
Thanks to all of you brilliant women who have posted so far!
I'll chime in with my own experience -- my son "clicked" every few seconds
and it was obvious he was falling off the breast a lot. I had A TON of milk
(was tandem nursing his almost 2-year old sister, a nurse-a-holic) but what
really tipped me off to a "problem" was that nursing him hurt. His latch
felt like sandpaper on my nipples. He was gaining extremely well and I
basically had to show the pediatrician what was going on..had he been my
first baby, I would have just thought there was something wrong with *me*
and learned to deal with the pain.
It turned out that Simon had a pretty tied tongue! I hunted high and low
for a pediatrican who would clip it for me, got it clipped at 3 weeks, and
nursing Simon was suddenly much, much more pleasant.
Post script to all of this, he's almost 2-1/2 now, and I think the frenulum
is still short, despite having been clipped. His speech is showing some
signs of the tongue tie (but he has "too much language" so we don't qualify
for county EDIS) with his "L" and "TH" sounds especially. He is the only
child I have ever met who doesn't like ice cream cones and lollipops (I
think it's because of the licking motion involved that is difficult for
him). But, his breastfeeding is going well and I have no pain.
I guess the point I was trying to make here is that when I see a mother with
a clicking baby, my eyes are open for other things like pain and/or
production issues. I'm trying to learn as much as I possibly can because
the unfortunate truth around here, anyway, is that most pediatricians don't
recognize the less overt anatomical issues and if they do see that something
in the oral cavity is not exactly textbook, the likelihood that they would
actually relate that to breastfeeding difficulties is slim to none. I can't
just trust that the doctors will see these things and know how to fix them,
but as a LLL Leader, I also can't just diagnose or give any real medical
advice (one reason I follow the IBCLC SOP thread so closely -- by golly I
hope that all gets settled and you are allowed to function as the
paramedical professionals you are!). I can send the mother back to her
doctor with lots of information, though, and hope said doctor investigates
it all and helps the mother and baby.
Sorry this ended up so long,
Diana in NY
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