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Hi, Katherine,
I've assisted with many frenotomies. Some babies cry as soon as they're
swaddled. Some never make a peep. I've seen some with a more high-pitched
cry like in the video when the snip is made. Others actually sleep through
it. We rarely gave any anesthetic, usually just sucrose drops. The babies
I observed seemed to react more strongly to the anesthetic being injected.
If it was my baby, I would prefer to just have the sucrose drops. I don't
recall any babies crying after the procedure was over, which only took
seconds to perform, longer if gauze pressure was needed to stop the
bleeding. Many babies had only a drop or two of blood. That was when it
was performed by the Neonatologist. It was different when the ENT performed
the frenotomy because he would do a blunt dissection with his finger after
the snip. Pretty gory but it gave good results.
Linda Anderegg, BSN, RNC, IBCLC in Chicago
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