Symptoms of problematic feeding in infants under 1 year of age undergoing frenotomy: A review article

In this review of the existing literature on feeding in infants with tongue-tie under 1 year old, we found that there is evidence that frenotomy results in improvement in maternal nipple pain, breastfeeding self-efficacy and LATCH scores. Little data was found on the effect of frenotomy on infant feeding and those studies that did explore infant feeding lacked comprehensive feeding assessments with adequate psychometric properties. Additional research is needed on the impact of frenotomy on infant feeding using comprehensive, psychometrically-sound feeding assessments.

Authors: Rebecca Hill & Britt Pados

Publication information: Acta Paediatrica. 2020; 109(12): 2502-2514. doi: 10.1111/apa.15473

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