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Posterior Tongue Tie
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Anyone else's LO have a posterior tongue tie? Are you doing any treatment for it?
My LC diagnosed itbut pedi said she wasn't even sure she had one, just noticed she doesn't like to keep her tongue down. She said there was nothing an ENT could clip. We are having shallow latch issues. She also loses suction midway through a lot of feedings. She seems to be doing fine getting fed tho as she only nurses for. 5-10 min on one side every 2.5-3 hrs.
The LC have a recommendation of a family dr who specializes in tongue tie but the reviews there are that she ALWAYS diagnoses tongue tie and does the snip.
So much conflicting info - don't know what to do!
ETA: I know there was recently a tongue tie thread but I'm specifically interested in experiences with posterior tongue tie since it seems harder to diagnose/ less straightforward on treatment best practices.
My LC diagnosed itbut pedi said she wasn't even sure she had one, just noticed she doesn't like to keep her tongue down. She said there was nothing an ENT could clip. We are having shallow latch issues. She also loses suction midway through a lot of feedings. She seems to be doing fine getting fed tho as she only nurses for. 5-10 min on one side every 2.5-3 hrs.
The LC have a recommendation of a family dr who specializes in tongue tie but the reviews there are that she ALWAYS diagnoses tongue tie and does the snip.
So much conflicting info - don't know what to do!
ETA: I know there was recently a tongue tie thread but I'm specifically interested in experiences with posterior tongue tie since it seems harder to diagnose/ less straightforward on treatment best practices.
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Re: Posterior Tongue Tie
How old is your LO?
The only rec the LC had is a family practice dr who gets pretty bad reviews online for being sorta quacky and off. Not exactly who I'd like to take my baby to. I'm so conflicted on what to do!
Keep me updated on how LO is doing and how things go with the specialist!
Also, my LC gave me some very helpful websites for info re: posterior tongue ties. I can share them if you're interested.
I USED to live in upstate NY, but now we're pretty much across the country. I did call my son's ENT (from ear tubes) to see if they would at least see her since they are the top rated pediatric ENTs around here and they will see here, but not until January 14th. I'm on a list in case there are any cancellations, but that seems so far away. I'm just not comfortable taking her to this other provided that gets the bad reviews, seems a little hokey, has questionable billing practices and apparently pretty much clips something regardless of a need based on what I've been able to tell. I'm still not convinced she needs anything done, but there's so little information out there, I'm just not sure.
If you wouldn't mind sharing the websites perhaps I can get myself more educated with reliable resources since it seems like much of the info on PTT is on blogs from Google searches.
Thanks in advance!!! Saw in the other post you scheduled LO's surgery - hope it works wonders for you!!!
Here are the sites I was given:
Www.kiddsteeth.com
Www.cwgenna.com/ttidentify.html
Hope they help! Let me know what you decide to do.
I've decided I want the ENT to look at her. We couldn't get in until 1/14 but are on a list for cancellations so we'll see.