I think its tongue tie...

[~clover~]

Well, the Gods were good to us
At about 11am I recieved my Chrisco, Castle & 3 new nappies!

So at 11.30 we went & saw her. There is no obvious tongue tie at the front, but sometimes there can be problems at the back of the tongue.

She had a good look around her mouth & it turns out Summer's pallet is very high & narrow & on top of that her tongue doesn't curl the way it should when she's sucking (iykwim).

We are going to see the speech therapist on Wednesday to check her suck swallow coordination & she's trying to line it up with a day admission to hospital so the m/w's can observe a few feeds & try to work out what's going on.

Weight gain is happening, but I think its on the lower end of the scale. 200gm since 6 week check up 2 weeks ago. But as she says, weight gain is nothing, as long as output is good, & it is.

Summer only really feeds til she gets letdown & is finished after 5 minutes max, so not sure if there's an issue there or not, but it will be checked too. In the meantime I have to try a new position with a hand under her chin supporting it. To support her swallow or something she said.... who knew BFing could get this detailed!!!