Nursing can be trying enough without any extra issues. A misshapen head is an extra issue.
Dear mother who is nursing a baby with craniosynostosis ... YOU CAN DO IT! My experience with A has been that her latch is shoddy, at best. Her incessant amount of clicking (indicating a poor latch or thrush) led me all over the internet and into the arms of a decent lactation consultant. Though we found out A had posterior tongue tie, having it clipped barely touched the problem.
And so, we come to chiropractics. As soon as we had a chiropractor start working on her head, her latch improved. The chiropractor we met with in MD had been trained by Dr. Carol Phillips in cranio sacral work and she was an amazing help with our nursing issues. Unfortunately, when we missed two weeks of appointments while moving to PA, I became painfully aware of how frustrating nursing issues in the exclusively breatsfed baby can be.
Now that our chiropractor is working on A's head, her nursing is wildly better but also temperamental surrounding appointments. Monday's appointment, for example, was really solid but she's been clicking a lot this week and grabbing my chest like she's falling out of my lap. I'm hoping today's appointment will adjust that slightly :)
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