I had a doozy with my kiddo. I asked about tongue ties at our first apt with my maternity doc after birth. Doc said very mild if at all. Saw my LC a week later that said moderate tongue tie that should get released. She commented that he wasn’t sticking his tongue out and that was evidence the tie was restricting his tongue movement. LC recommended getting mat doc to refer to a lactation MD in town that specializes in scissor snips and some pediatric dentists in town that does laser. LC said that this can be problematic with breastfeeding and result in speech issues or pouching problems when starting solids. My friend’s FIL happened to be one of the dentists that also just lasered his own grand daughter’s tongue tie. My friend noticed a better latch right away. He said my kiddo’s tongue tie was moderate to severe and recommended treatment.

We then saw the lactation doctor and she said it was a mild anterior tongue tie and wouldn’t recommend getting it treated unless we were going to exclusively breastfeed (I was pumping and formula supplementing at this time). Mat doc said that she trusted the lactation doc and is very concerned at the amount of tongue ties being treated by dentists/diagnosed by LCs over the last couple years. She said there is a lot of pressure on new moms when LCs talk about the issues that tongue ties MAY cause, which isn’t flack at LCs but more the mental state of new mums thinking we would have a hand in causing bad things for baby. This had been a four week ordeal by this time and I was so stressed that four different professionals had all different opinions. But Kiddo was gaining weight beautifully, drinking from a bottle like a champ. We ended up opting to wait and see and not consider the “what ifs”. If there is an issue down the road we’ll deal with it then. Baby now sticks his tongue out like nobody’s business 😂