Harlan came through the tongue tie surgery with flying colors. They did the surgery 1 dy shy of he being 1 month old on November 6th. They did not use an IV or breathing tube. They just sedated him for the procedure and it was done within 10 minutes. Hrlan did not seem to be in any pain during his recoevery period but it did take about 7-10 days for him to fully heal and get use to using his tongue effectively. He still has even today at 3months old a bit of a heart shaped tongue from where the frendulum attaches to his tongue although his tongue is now freed.
It took us a while to get off the bottle and pump and back onto the breast. We did a "nurse-in" during a long weekend and we did nothing but nurse and sleep and cuddle. By the end of our nurse in my breast milk supply was well established and he was brestfeeding very well. We did use nipple shield for week or so but he quickly weaned off that to just nurse on my breast.
At his 2 month well baby check up we noticed he was not gaining well. He was maintaining his weight but not gaining. So the Peditrician and I decided that we should add 4-6 oz of formula every day until my milk supply increased and he started to gain. We did that for 2 weeks and he gained 13 oz. Perfect!
Our next appointment is in February for his 4 month check-up. Hopefully he will be gaining enough and we can discontinue the formula.
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