I haven't seen any responses to your question, so I'll ask. I'm confused about why a 25 day old is having a frenectomy under anesthesia--was the tongue-tie so severe that the baby really needed suturing after the division? I do understand the difference between a frenotomy and frenectomy--are you in a large medical center? I've worked as an LC for 15 years in a small hospital, about 1200 births/year. I'm lucky in that almost all our docs now recognize that tongue-tie impacts breastfeeding, and it is easy to get it dealt with. All the pediatricians and most of the family docs do frenotomies. Probably hundreds of babies have had frenotomies since I've been here, but I've not seen one yet who required frenectomy. They're done immediately here during the hospital stay, or in the doctor's office if not recognized early. No anesthesia, no big deal from what I can see, baby is put to breast right after, certainly less traumatic than a blood draw. No discharge instructions. So I'm curious as to your situation. Becky Krumwiede, RN, IBCLC Appleton, Wisconsin *********************************************** 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