My little man is about 3.5 weeks old, and he’s had a terrible time gaining weight and has awful reflux. Nobody could figure out what was going on, they did an ultrasound to check for pyloric stenosis, and it was negative. They have him on Zantac, but he still has awful reflux and gas issues. Well, I decided to do some research and came across tongue and lip ties. Naturally, I checked my baby’s mouth (especially because his top lip doesn’t flange when he nurses, it sucks in) and I found out that he does in fact have a pretty tight lip tie. Ladies, if I hadn’t looked and researched on my own, this probably wouldn’t have been caught! We have appointments with his ped and an IBCLC to figure out next steps, and look into revising his lip tie and hopefully getting a better latch so he can start gaining weight, and potentially fix his reflux/gas issues!

I saw this:

And looked in his mouth, and found this!