The procedure to cut a tongue-tie is known as a lingual frenectomy or tongue-tie release. Steph hoped that post-procedure their problems would immediately be solved. Unfortunately for Steph and Albert, they were still unable to breastfeed. “Cue twenty-four hours of pure screaming hell,’” she says. “Everyone was crying. Albert was crying, I was crying, and my three-year-old daughter was crying, because she got no attention.” Steph was feeding Albert pumped milk through a syringe, and without making any progress with his latch, made the decision to stop trying to breastfeed and exclusively express feed him instead. Her next concern was ensuring that Albert continued to work for his feeds, to prevent scar tissue forming and contracting at the site of the tongue-tie.
