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 ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html