Sarah lives and works in the UK and has a background in community nursing, health visiting and primary care. She qualified as a breastfeeding counsellor with the Association of Breastfeeding Mothers in 2004 and as an IBCLC in 2009. In 2009 she set up a private practice and sees 600-700 families per year in this role. She trained in 2011 to perform scissor frenotomy with Mervyn Griffiths and Carolyn Westcott and has since performed over 4000 procedures. She is a founder member and former chair of The Association of Tongue-tie Practitioners in the UK. Sarah has written articles for magazines and journals and contributed to books on lactation for parents and professionals. She has recently been commissioned to write a book on tongue-tie for parents.
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.
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