I’m considering this procedure but I don’t know anyone who has gotten it done as an adult. I’d love to hear about how recovery went and what things you could/could not do.
TONGUE TIE
*this is really just a theory, but found this conversation interesting and thought I’d share*
For Context: I just welcomed my first baby last year with my husband. We used an at home insemination kit. My boy was having some trouble nursing and eating. So we saw a lactation consultant who referred us to an occupational therapist who does cranialsacral therapy. Basically, due to my baby’s tongue and lip tie, his body was extremely stiff/tight. He was not able to relax at all. So this specific therapist advised us to get his tongue tie cut and then she worked on him for several weeks. This boy is so much more relaxed now, and is eating so much better, yay! Anyway, while the therapist was helping my son, I told her how thankful I am for her working on him because I myself deal with body tenseness. I told her I have a very tight pelvic floor (Vaginismus yay). She asked if she could look in my mouth to see if I had a tongue tie. I showed her and she noticed I had one and that I couldn’t lay my entire tongue on the rough of my mouth. She said, “I wonder if getting your tongue tie cut would help your pelvic floor relax since it’s all connected”. OUR TONGUE IS DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO OUR PELVIC FLOOR.
Maybe this theory is already out there in this page, but it was the first I’m hearing of it. I wasn’t able to nurse as a baby and nobody helped my mom figure it out. I now know it was due to my tongue tie. I’m genuinely super curious if getting my tongue tie released would help relax my pelvic floor. I gave up healing about two years ago, so I’m not sure I’m ready to even have that conversation with myself. But I just thought I’d share what I learned, and see if maybe anyone else had learned this or thought about it.
*I didn’t know how to tag this post so I just put physical therapy bc I thought that was somewhat related Lol*
Edit: I also have a speech impediment and saw someone say sometimes a tongue tie can make it worse. Now I’m tempted to get mine cut to see if it helps my speech AND pelvic floor.
I have been completely done breast feeding for two months now. These symptoms were just happening around my period. But I currently just experienced them two days in a row and I’m not on my period and won’t be for 3 more weeks.
Out of the blue, I will start feeling really off. Then my entire body gets super hot and I feel like I’m going to pass out. It’s a terrible feeling. Only lasts a couple minutes at most. I know it takes a really long time for your hormones to regulate after birth so I’m hoping it’s just that. But want to be sure! Has anyone else experienced this before?
My husband is about to move his office down to the basement to make room for our family growing. We currently have an unfinished finished basement. Walls are up but no ceiling. I wondered if anyone knew or had experience with something we could put on the ceiling to help with noise from upstairs? I know we can’t cancel noise out completely, and that’s totally fine, but just wondered if there was something out there that would help a little!
Our last name is Thomas. We were able to avoid a first name that ends in S with our first child. But man, I love the name Nicolas, and I love the name James. I also would have loved to use Matthias as a middle name for my first born but chickened out. When I say them with the last name Thomas… does it sound odd? Because of the double S? Do I need to give up wanting a first name that ends with S because of our last name? Or am I overthinking everything?
Nicolas Thomas
James Thomas
Lucas Thomas
Matthias Thomas
Miles Thomas
I’m not sure if this is part of the 4 month sleep regression? Or if this is something different.
My almost 5 month old is taking the shortest naps ever throughout the day. 18 minutes here, 31 minutes there, then maybe 23 minutes, then 36 minutes, etc. from wake up to bedtime. With wake windows being between 2-2.5 hours long. His sleepy cues are rubbing his eyes.
The inconsistency and lack of schedule is wearing on me. Struggling to get anything done around the house.
Babe is 5 months old. At night, consistently waking every 3 hours for a 4oz bottle. In the morning, barely eats, maybe has an ounce. During the day, feeds are very sporadic. Random times and random amounts until the evening.
For several days, we lowered his intake at night by 10mL (in hopes we could increase intake during the day and remove at least maybe one feed at night). He was doing well with just 10mL less. Still waking at the 3 hour mark, yay! Well… last night I tried going down 10mL more. So I believe he was getting a 100mL bottle (a little over 3oz). So almost an ounce down from what he’s used to. That did not go well…. He was still suckling the bottle when it was empty, took a super long time to settle him back to sleep after, and was waking more frequently.
It was such a rough night. I felt like after midnight I was awake all night. I’m so tired. Baby this morning seems rested and happy though, hahah!
Edit: at bedtime we offer a full bottle, not a lowered intake bottle
We are wanting to start the chair method of sleep training for daytime naps starting tomorrow.
- 5 months old
- he has absolutely no schedule at all which I why I want to sleep train. Hoping that will help us create a schedule. Currently he has one nap in the morning (random time), one nap in the afternoon (random time) and then one more small nap before bed. All at totally random times, and for anywhere between 18 minutes long- 2 hours). There’s no consistency unfortunately.
- our bedtime routine consists of bath, books, bottle, then bed by 8pm. I’d love to switch bottle and books around because he’s currently eating to sleep and I’d like him to learn he can fall asleep without the bottle.
- I got him sleeping in the bassinet on his own finally (we co-slept before) and he’s been doing great in there for about 2 weeks. I want to switch to crib sleep as well once he’s 6 months old for night time. So I thought I’d introduce the crib for daytime naps to get him used to it.
- we do not have a designated wake up. But our bedtime is consistently 8pm. He usually wakes anywhere between 6am-8am.
ANOTHER ADDED MAYBE PROBLEM! We are currently in the process of trying to break reverse cycle feeding. He barely eats in the morning and is sporadic during the day. Then very consistently on the dot eats every 3 hours at night. So we are currently lowering his intake very slowly at night to get him hungrier in the morning/during the day.
The way I get him to nap right now is by laying him on his side on my bed and patting his butt while he sucks on the pacifier until he falls asleep. So I thought to myself, I could totally just do this in the crib that way I don’t have to worry about him rolling off once he starts moving better.
Anyway, any advice from other people who did chair method? How long did it take for your baby? Does any of what we are doing sound stupid? Because I’m a first time mom who has no idea what I am doing, Lol. I feel like I’m just winging it every day.
If I like brands like Kendamill, Bobbie, and bubs… is there a similar formula brand that does dairy free? I don’t know why none of these brands do dairy free.
I have no idea if my baby has an allergy or not but about 2/3 of his wake windows are just spent fussing and I don’t know why. I thought maybe an allergy. He’s been like this all his life.