I've seen a few babies with a mild tongue thrust like you describe.  It
was helpful to have mom fingerfeed for a few minutes before each
nursing, and angle the finger downward in the baby's mouth to press
firmly against the area of the tongue that is raising and pushing each
time this occurs.  In the worst case of this I've seen, baby was 3 mos
old, Mom had 1 cm deep craters in each nipple tip, and nasty mastitis as
well.  It took a month of Mom working with the baby to get her sucking
properly and rebuild Mom's supply (she had been bfing only 3x a day,
because that's all she could tolerate.)  Not coincidentally, this mom's
teenaged children had histories of oral motor dysfunction and speech
articulation errors.
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Catherine Watson Genna, IBCLC  New York City  mailto:[log in to unmask]

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