I think its tongue tie...

[~clover~]

Thanks everyone. Most of the nurses at my hospital & my CHN are LC's. CHN see's people Thursday & Fridays, so I'll give her a ring & get in tomorrow.
Can't leave the house today... gotta wait for chrisco

[skybie]

get in as quick as u can hun, if ur reffered to a GP to have it cut (if thats what u choose to do) they dont like to do it after 12 weeks because the skin flap becomes quite thick and can bleed excessively

[~clover~]

Ok, thanks. I should be seeing the gp in the next week anyway for Jaz. Will be ringing them today.

[Lisa]

Clover, when I lived up that way we found it nearly impossible to find someone who would snip the TT. We had to get a referral to Port Macquarie hospital to see the visiting paediatric surgeons from John Hunter and one of them snipped DS2's TT. Be aware you might have to do something similar, but probably at Coffs hospital.

[~clover~]

Really? My gp is pretty good, so I guess we'll see. Coffs isn't too far from me though. There is no kids ward here, so thats where we get sent (though it is an hour away!)
Going to ring the LC now.

[Smoke Jaguar]

DS had TT and we snipped it as soon as we could after diagnosis - 4 weeks. No hesitation after we learned about the frenulum. It's painless and allows mobilisation of the tongue for other things, like speech.
It's not worth persisting without a snip if it's causing you pain! It's just a simple cut that bothers them more for the interruption to their day than anything else, and midwives have been performing it for centuries
Really, there is nothing 'unethical' about the snip, it is nothing like genital mutilation or ear pearcings. DS was asleep before the snip, cried out to be woken for the snip and was asleep within a minute afterwards - of course, putting him back in the HAB helped, too

[~clover~]

Ok, just rang the chn/lc. She wants to see me today, as she's not sure if she's around tomorrow, but the world is against us!
If I leave & miss chrisco I have to go to Grafton (like 2 hours away) to pick it up, can't change delivery adress & mum's phone is telling me incoming calls are restricted.
She's about an hour away anyway, so probably can't come just to sit here for chrisco, but I was hoping she might be in town or something, then its not too far out of the way.
There is a doc in Coffs who will snip it.

I'm going to ring her about lunch time & see how things are going. She's going to try get out here if she can. Or hopefully chrisco will be here by then.

[Lisa]

Yay that there is a Dr in Coffs who does TT snips! Brilliant news.

I hope you work things out with the Chrisco delivery.