Abstract
When we asked for mothers to tell us their stories of tongue-tie, responses flooded in. A theme in many of these stories is health-care providers not listening when mothers said they were in pain. The mothers’ related stories of painful nipples, babies breastfeeding “all the time,” and failure to thrive because of low milk production. Mothers’ voices were not heard because health-care providers minimized their concerns. Most of these mothers persisted with breastfeeding despite the problems. Eventually, the tongue-ties were correctly identified and revised, and the difficulties resolved. Other mothers were not able to continue breastfeeding. A smaller percentage of mothers described revisions that had harmful effects on their babies and that did not fix the breastfeeding problems. (Editor’s Note: We, unfortunately, received too many stories to include in this issue, but we will include all of them in the Clinical Lactation Monograph.)
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