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PARIS, May 4 — Lea had no problems breastfeeding her newborn son when she took him to see an osteopath in Paris, who nonetheless recommended surgery to cut a “too thick” strip of tissue under his tongue. She said the osteopath indicated that “we don’t really know why, but it’s always...

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PARIS, May 4 — Lea had no problems breastfeeding her newborn son when she took him to see an osteopath in Paris, who nonetheless recommended surgery to cut a “too thick” strip of tissue under his tongue.

Called a frenotomy, the simple procedure involves snipping the thin band of tissue that connects the bottom of the tongue to the floor of the mouth. The increased awareness of the condition propelled a surge in procedures to fix it — a report in Australia found that the number of frenotomies increased by 420 per cent from 2006 to 2016.

Many mothers are “disappointed to be told there is no tongue tie and therefore no ‘quick fix’ to the feeding issue,” Fraser said.Virginie Rigourd, a paediatrician at a Paris hospital, said that osteopaths and breastfeeding counsellors had contributed to the rise in frenotomies. “There is a return to breastfeeding but there is also a lack of well-trained staff to inform mothers, so there are also increasing problems” like mothers finding breastfeeding painful, Rigourd added.Cochrane, a British organisation that reviews medical research, found that existing research on the procedure had “serious methodological shortcomings”.

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