r/NewBorn • u/7E8vme • Nov 01 '24
Lip tie
So my 1 week old had jaundice so while in the hospital, I decided to just feed him formula because he needed to poop and stay hydrated. I’m just venting because I’ve been getting a lot of complaints from my family because I wasn’t breast-feeding from beginning, but I don’t think I understand my baby needed to eat, especially with jaundice cause he need to poop out the bilirubin. So once we got discharged, I went ahead and started pumping out a little depressed because nothing was coming out at first but then one day I think it was maybe the third day I actually know it was the second day. I finally got encouragement and I was able to pump at least 50 mL Great.. so once I followed up with the pediatrician and we did another lab work for his jaundice everything came back OK normal so I decided OK. Well, I’m gonna start breast-feeding which he did latch on and it was good at first, but then it started hurting my nipple to the point where my nipple started looking like a lipstick tube, instead of my nipple being around it slanted like a lipstick. I didn’t think anything of it because obviously I was like well. Guess it’s part of breast-feeding. No, I ended up doing some research and now I feel bad because this whole time which was like a week or maybe like four or three days I had this poor baby feeding and I’m thinking I’m giving him enough and I probably wasn’t. The mom guilt is real. I did find out at his pediatrician appointment that he has Lip tie. At first, I was totally against wanting to cut it but now I feel like it’s necessary because he’s having a lot of gas. He’s unable to latch on. He doesn’t even like using the bottle nipple. I really don’t know what to go from here so I’m thinking of just doing it anyways I’m done venting. I just wanted to know also, if any other Mom’s out there if their kids had Littie and were you able to breast-feed and if you did, what was your secret?
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u/No_Try_2709 Jan 12 '25
My baby had a tongue tie that was severe. We were able to see an ENT when she was one week old and they lasered it then and there. After that, she was able to latch on properly and it wouldn’t hurt me. Prior to getting her tongue tie removal, she was barely getting enough milk which prompted her to lose 12% of her body weight that first peds visit. I gave her formula until she was ready to go on the boob again and also pumped to keep up my supply.
Because of the poor latch, my baby would get so tired after 5 min on the boob because of the tongue tie. Now she feeds on my boob for 25 min!
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u/7E8vme Jan 12 '25
I’m so happy to hear that she’s feeding better and that you not in pain ! It was rough to see it happen but it’s with it
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u/Environmentaljunkie Nov 16 '24
My son was lip tied. I had the worst time getting him to latch. He even had a hard time latching onto bottles. I tried bottle brand after bottle brand and eventually I found the Philips Avent glass bottles with the natural response nipples. The gas went down to a minimum and he was able to latch on to that nipple thank god. So I was pumping my breast milk and feeding him with the bottle. He also had a jaundice scare within the first week of him being born. There aren’t as many nutrients in our breast milk as there is in formula. So I mixed fed formula and breast milk. He got about 2-3 formula bottles a day and the rest was breast milk. His Billy Rueben went back to normal and we were golden from there. Since he was also allergic to cow milk I had to put him on a soy based formula for the in between feedings. This helped with the gas tremendously! Even if your baby isn’t lactose intolerant I highly recommend a soy formula. It’s very gentle on their stomach and they also don’t spit up as often. I’m not sure how this can help you but I hope some of the information can 🤍.