Permission to post. I saw a 4 week baby. EBM feed baby. There is obviously
a posterior tongue tie but I have never seen a baby have no seal... at all!
This baby has a beautiful upside down U shape upper lip. Hopefully, that
makes sense and the upper lip won't even touch my finger when I did a suck
assessment. He refuses a bottle and mom latches him on pretty deep and it
"appears" that he is latched to the breast but after one-two sucks he
breaks the weak suction. He repeatedly pops off. He is gaining weight like
a weed with mom's over flow of milk. I have never seen a posterior tie not
compensate and use the upper lip. He doesn't use the lips or the tongue.
Any thoughts of what to do for this baby? I am afraid that the frenectomy
won't help necessarily the absence of any attempt to hold anything in his
mouth. Thoughts??
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