Baby toys and dealing with tongue tie, lip ties!

This week has been so much fun with our son! After the scary talk at daycare I as determined to find some new toys to help with his learning to stand and use his legs. I found an Exersaucer for a pretty good price. I  brought it home on Tuesday and put it together and put our son in it. He loves it! And just after a day or two he is already using his legs more. We only put him in it about 20 minutes a day.
Here is the one I bought:







Also, he has started trying to talk a lot more. Another thing we are dealing with is his tongue and lip tie. We have struggled since he was born with breastfeeding. I finally had him checked a third time 6 weeks ago and had an ENT agree that he is both tongue and lip tied. What a relief to finally find a doctor who seemed to understand my concerns. He is having surgery in less than two weeks to have both corrected. Tuesday night he started saying blab, blab, blab, blab! It was so cute! He is getting better with using his tongue so I hope the surgery will help get us back to nursing well.  If your child ever struggles with nursing, can't stick his tongue out past his gums, and has trouble with bottles and pacifies get them check out. Also, their are a lot of other symptoms when it comes to breastfeeding that are listed on the second site below. If you have one doctor tell you no and your pretty sure they are tied don't take no for an answer! The lactation consultant when he was born didn't catch it or tell us anything about it. I assumed they would check him but I don't think they did. A pediatrician said he wasn't tied and everything look fine. A second lactation consultant said he had both. Another pediatrician said eh maybe since he was nursing well and to go to a pediatric ENT. Finally, the pediatric ENT looked at him and said his upper lip is very tight and tongue is tight too. In the end the take away is go with your gut instinct as a parent. If you want more information here is a great website to read about them.

https://breastfeedingusa.org/content/article/tell-me-about-tongue-ties
http://www.kiddsteeth.com/articles/ttfactssheet.pdf


Have a great weekend everyone!!