Hi Sara, I am not usually one to chime in with my personal history but this
topic is close to my heart so I cant help myself!
You say you have..."yet to find a another baby with a high
palate" well........you want to see my son! LOL
My 6 year old had/has a high palate and was a devil (I am being polite)to
feed!
As a newborn he would hump his tongue while feeding, resulting in the
cascade of weight loss,cracked nipples, thrush and bacterial infections.
To cut a *long* story short:
he was breast and finger fed for 10 weeks, which I found very time
consuming, pumping as well as caring for his older brother, husband etc etc!
SNS fiddly. Did the chiropractor thing, don't know that it really had any
effect. I introduced a Cannon teat around the 10 week mark and even ( I
still 'cry' to this day at the thought) gave him some formula as I was
EXHAUSTED and feeling overwhelmed with it all.
So here I was crying, firstly, because I couldn't feed him every feed on the
breast without him becoming very unsettled, hungry all the time and losing
weight, and then (once I started introducing formula) I was crying because I
felt I was failing! In other words, I was crying no matter what I did!!
So back into the house came the pump and we were back to expressing, breast
feeding and bottling.
Then at about 4 months of age it all seemed to click for him! I guess
maturity (and time) played its part! He no longer needed to be topped up
with EBM and took all of his feeds from the breast. I still had to very
careful of positioning as any 'slacking off' meant pain for me. This was the
longest 4 months in my life, I can tell you! He was breast feed for just
over 2 years.
I had the support of some wonderful IBCLC's here and probably couldn't have
done it without them! (Some of them on this list, even !) Here I was, an
LC, yet still needed the support of other LC's even if it was just to
debrief to!
This child has since had 3 lots of grommets and has even been on IV
antibiotics for one bout of a severe (pseudomonas) ear infection. I blame
these recurrent ear infections on his oral anatomy although I have never
seen anything in the literature to back me up. (OK the formula wouldn't have
helped either, LOL).
What have I learnt from this.........LOTS! But that's another post's worth!!
So I am glad to hear that things thankfully are ok with you and your
beautiful daughter, I just wanted to share another side of the story.
Cheers
Karen Clements IBCLC
Melb Aust
(now off to the beach for 2 days after one of *those* weeks)
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