Helene and Harvey

“My son was nine weeks old when we were referred to Sarah by our local lactation consultant who had identified his posterior tongue tie. I had sought further help after we continued to experience feeding difficulties following a NHS anterior tongue tie division when my son was six days old. Sarah immediately put my husband…

Arabella was born at the Rosie, after complications arose at our planned home birth and we were transferred. We ended up having an epidural though still delivered her vaginally, so had to stay in hospital overnight. To be honest I had no clue about breast feeding, other than it being something I felt passionate about…

Annabelle is doing really well, we didn’t have any problems with crying or bleeding. Actually so many things have improved, I think that she must have been really struggling to get enough milk earlier. She’s more awake, she’s feeding more frequently, she is doing more and bigger wees. And last night she slept in her…

Apologies for not getting in touch before now to let you know how things have been going. I kept meaning to email you, but I’ve no idea where my time goes these days! Anyway, I’ve got very good news to report back to you. For around 24 hours after the division, I had to give…

When pregnant with my first child I was determined I was going to do my very best for him and exclusively breastfeed him as was recommended. I was bombarded at antenatal classes (NCT and NHS) about how natural and straightforward it was going to be, how the mother and baby instinctively know what to do,…

Just a quick note as you undertook the division of a posterior tongue tie on our baby, Anna, back in Dec/ Jan  (it all seems like a blur now). This appeared to, after 1-2 weeks shift Anna’s sucking technique from a clamp sensation to that of a cat lapping. Around about this time she became…