So because dd can't latch properly she has to over compensate a lot with her suck which she does quite well because she is thriving. However her having to suck the way she does causes her to have really bad sucking blisters. With the colder weater her lips aren't just getting sucking blisters but getting red raw like she's been out in the wind and licking them all day. I have been putting cream on them but it isn't really helping and this morning her lips were so bad that they were bleeding.

I don't know what I can do for her. She doesn't want to feed because her lips are sore and even when I do attach her she isn't sucking the way she normally does so she isn't even managing to get let down to happen. I have to do it for her but once it has happened she is just sucking and not swallowing.

I have another weeks wait before I can even get into my GP to get her referral to the oral surgeon. I have tired calling, they say too bad. And then when I finally get the referral who knows how long the oral surgeon will be booked out for, not to mention the fact that we have to travel so far to see him. I am starting to get really scared that he won't think her tie is bad enough to snip. She can move her tongue quite a bit, I honestly think its something she will grow out of as her tongue stretches so I am afraid we will go to all this effort to be told there is nothing they can do and we are left still with the same problem. I actually think her extensive lip tie is what is making the whole problem worse and without it she might be able to manage her tongue a bit better, I don't know. I just feel so defeated right now.

I hate living in the middle of nowhere where it is so hard to find help or the people you need. It's such a stupid thing to feel like giving up on the whole breastfeeding thing when its something that could be possibly so simple if I could only find the right help.

We have been through 10 hellish weeks, by the time we even manage to get it sorted so much of her suck will be habit and it could take us months to retrain her how to suck. I'm feeling so frustrated and I don't know what to do for her in the meantime.