DD2 is 7 weeks. She had a posterior tongue tie fixed 2 weeks ago. Her tongue tie was bad enough that at its worst it was even hard to get her to take a bottle. Immediately after and for at least the next week it she continued to find latching and creating suction at the breast difficult whilst the wound was healing.
We have used a Supplementary Nursing System for a short while but have stopped it because she learnt to use it as a straw and get milk from it with a shallow latch. This meant she thought she could always use a shallow latch, a kinda SNS version of nipple confusion.
She is currently latching on the breast for comfort and can very slowly get a small amount of milk out. The majority of her feeds come from bottles of expressed milk. As much as I'd have like to avoid bottles, cups & syringes don't work well long term and just aren't practical and the SNS also didn't work.
So... baby latches..... supply matches demand as we are now all EBM and no donor milk or formula. But latch isn't great and suckling is more for comfort as she expects to get milk from a bottle afterwards. Weight gain is amazing and she is fit and healthy and we have "room to play with" according to HV... ie she won't starve if her intake goes down a bit whilst learning to breast feed.
Where do I go from here? Gradual reduction, or just ditch the bottles completely and see how she goes.
We have used a Supplementary Nursing System for a short while but have stopped it because she learnt to use it as a straw and get milk from it with a shallow latch. This meant she thought she could always use a shallow latch, a kinda SNS version of nipple confusion.
She is currently latching on the breast for comfort and can very slowly get a small amount of milk out. The majority of her feeds come from bottles of expressed milk. As much as I'd have like to avoid bottles, cups & syringes don't work well long term and just aren't practical and the SNS also didn't work.
So... baby latches..... supply matches demand as we are now all EBM and no donor milk or formula. But latch isn't great and suckling is more for comfort as she expects to get milk from a bottle afterwards. Weight gain is amazing and she is fit and healthy and we have "room to play with" according to HV... ie she won't starve if her intake goes down a bit whilst learning to breast feed.
Where do I go from here? Gradual reduction, or just ditch the bottles completely and see how she goes.
