A scissors frenotomy is apparently a low risk procedure with limited short-term implications no-one really knows if it will help-why not cut it and see? In other words, they feel compelled to act. Mothers are desperate for action, they want a quick fix for their sore nipples or their baby’s colicky symptoms, and (as one expert said) in the current environment, where everyone is worrying about ties, health professionals feel the need to respond pragmatically. The stopgap Palmer was referring to was artificial infant formula milk. It is often easier and more lucrative to work out a stopgap way of alleviating a problem than it is to discover why it occurred in the first place.Some lactation consultants believe their profession is losing its skills to help mothers breastfeed as a direct result of the increase in tongue-tie referrals. A causal link between tie surgery and breastfeeding has not been established. But where are the data? Breastfeeding rates have not improved with the use of infant formula milk top-ups nor in line with higher rates of tongue-tie surgeries. I hope they will continue to support breastfeeding mothers. In the last century, it’s a sad fact that the more contact mothers have had with health workers the less they have breastfed.When I read Gabrielle Palmer’s books, The Politics of Breastfeeding and Why the Politics of Breastfeeding Matter these are the six that struck me. There are some striking parallels between the promotion of tongue-tie surgery and artificial infant formula milk. What do tongue-tie and infant formula milk promotion have in common?
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