Speaker Type: Tongue-Tie Symposium 2020, Tongue Tie Symposium 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Biography:
Sarah is a Registered Nurse, Health Visitor and IBCLC working in private practice in the UK. She developed her interest in infant feeding when she trained as a Health Visitor on 2002, having breastfed her own two children. She qualified as a Breastfeeding Counsellor in 2004 with the Association of Breastfeeding Mothers and worked as a volunteer on the national breastfeeding helplines for 8 years. She has been an IBCLC since 2009 and a nurse for over 30 years. She worked in the NHS for 27 years and has been a private practice IBCLC since 2009. In 2011 Sarah trained to do tongue-tie division with Mervyn Griffiths and Carolyn Westcott. Since then she has carried out over 4000 procedures and has a busy private practice seeing 20-30 families per week. She is a founder member and former chair of the Association of Tongue-tie Practitioners in the UK and is the author of the book 'Why Tongue-tie Matters' published in 2021.
This presentation explores professional and lay perspectives on bleeding post tongue-tie division. It will examine what constitutes abnormal bleeding and why this may occur. Risk assessment and reduction will be discussed. Management strategies that have been found to be effective, along with the development of guidelines on bleeding by the Association of Tongue-tie Practitioners will be described.
This presentation will examine the impact Covid 19 had on infant feeding and in particular the provision of tongue-tie services in the UK and other parts of the world during the period March to September 2020. It will look at the impact changes in provision had on the infant feeding experiences of families. It will also explore how practitioners managed services during the pandemic and what the lasting effects on those services have been. Specific concerns around transmission of Covid 19 during oral procedures will also be considered. Consideration to lessons learned will be given.
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