I have worked with several mothers with babies with very tight labial
frenulums.  Three were so severe that they have had surgery (an oral
surgeon here does it) using a "Z" cut--it's really surgery, unlike the
lingual frenulum clipping.  Mothers' nipple pain resolved almost
immediately.

One of my very clever moms would pump some of her milk, place it in a
bottle and bend the teat so the milk squirted on the sutures and bathed
them in milk before every feeding at the breast.  :-)  That little guy
healed so fast the surgeon couldn't believe it.  :o)

The surgeon said he often does the labial frenulum clipping--when
children are about 6 years old and the skin on the gum is causing a gap
between the permanent front teeth.  He'd never heard of doing one on an
infant until he met me.... <g>

Karen Zeretzke, IBCLC

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