#ItsTies

Hi all,

I am starting this blog to document my journey as a gentle/attachment parent.

Over time, it will include baby-led weaning recipes and ideas, breastfeeding information, babywearing posts and more, but for now I am covering something relating less to bub and more to me.

From birth, my baby had so many of the symptoms of tongue and lip ties. But instead of diagnosing and treating these, countless paediatricians, doctors, midwives and lactation consultants prescribed things like lactose free formula (I can practically hear all the CMPI mums groaning), sleep training, bottle feeding, nipple shields, infacol, infants friend, panadol, nurofen, even prescription wind medication - and none of this helped even one bit.

Thankfully, I am surrounded by wonderful mothers who could tell me what was "normal" for a newborn and what was not.

For weeks I resisted the idea of ties. I compared my mouth with bubs' and we looked the same. How could he be tied if our mouths looked the same? ***spoiler, I'm tied too***. When baby B was 9 weeks old, I experienced what I interpreted as a sudden drop in breastmilk supply. This freaked me out so much that I finally took on board the hundreds of mums internet-shouting at me that my baby was tied and booked him in for a formal assessment.

We had his ties lasered the same day and almost all of our problems disappeared within 4 days.

Since then, I have been a massive advocate of tie release, so much so that I have decided to have my own ties released after discovering how much of my "normal" is, in fact, not!

I know that adult tie release is an even less well known concept than infant tie release, so I will document my experience every step of the way in the hopes that some of you who are considering tie release in yourselves can make a really informed decision.