Frenum can impact breasfeeding
When babies have tongue-tie , or a maxillary frenum , it can impact her ability to correctly latch on when breastfeeding. Your baby will adjust when latching on by using her lips to grasp around the nipple. The correct position for breastfeeding does not allow for air to seep into the side of her mouth. However, when she is just using her lips she has an O shape that will cause large amounts of air to be gulped in instead of the nutrition that she needs to thrive. This latch increases air into your child’s stomach. "More air triggers a reaction where she may think she is full but is not," says pediatric dentist, Dr. Cameron Fuller . On average she should be gaining between five to nine ounces a week. After she is first born she is going to loose between five to nine percent of her original birth weight. It is critical for her to immediately be able to nurse correctly in order to put the weight back on. ...