Tongue issue

[neonsun419]

I also posted this in D14.  Anyone have any experience with "peanut butter tongue/excessive tongue tip elevation" - meaning my LO keeps his tongue on the roof of his mouth which is causing issues with his latch.  I've seen several LC's and LO has been checked for tongue ties.   

[babycaps]

My LO had this!! It took about 5-6 weeks for us to have a good latch but I didn't give up. have your LCs shown you any exercises you can do to relax your LO's chin and tongue?
That's what we had to do and it worked. I pumped and used the Playtex Natural Latch wide neck for the first 3 weeks.

[whitney4126]

Yes we had it too! LO was born with a severe tongue tie, and it seemed that she spent her time in utero trying to stretch it, by shoving the tongue in the roof of her mouth. It actually created a noticeable groove that caused a lot of pain with my nipple, and sometimes it was hard just to get the nipple in her mouth because of it. I had the tongue tie clipped, but then had to work with a speech pathologist who taught me sucking exercises to do with the baby several times a day. I think you can find some of these online. I know you said your LO didn't have a tongue tie, but I think you may be able to find some of these by searching sucking exercises to help tongue tie. One thing she had me do was put my pinky against the roof of her mouth and then push down toward the tongue as I pulled my finger out, basically guiding her tongue out. I'm not sure if I explained it well, but it help teach her how to use her tongue during latch. Anyway, I had several extremely painful weeks, almost totally exclusively pumped for a couple of those, and then tried again. By 6 weeks, everything seemed to fall into place. Now I am so glad that I stuck with it! I just had to remember that baby was learning just like me, and once she was able to figure out that a good latch means more efficiently getting milk, she quickly learned.