Select What are signs that my baby may have ankyglossia? What are signs that my baby may have ankyglossia?

Some signs are as follows: • Painful, ineffective, inefficient or prolonged feedings due to baby’s difficulty latching on with a good seal for suckling. • Baby’s inability to sustain the latch (slipping and sliding off the breast). • Mother’s nipple trauma (flushed and inflamed with blisters, cracks, bleeding or infection), due to the baby ‘gumming’ at the breast: the lower jaw gum-pad compresses the breast, instead of it being separated and cushioned by the thickness of the tongue. Baby suckling for a short time, getting fed up, fatigued, falling asleep, and waking an hour later hungry — baby seems to feed almost continuously. More on these on page 197-198.