Sarah’s Day has confirmed that she booked her newborn son, Harlow, for a controversial surgery, a month after his birth.
The lifestyle YouTuber, 32, whose real name is Sarah Stevenson, took to Instagram on Thursday to share the news with her 1.2 million followers.
“Thank you to everyone who visited me last night,” he wrote in the caption of a short video of his family inside their car.
“Last night was one of our worst nights, almost no sleep.”
Sarah gave birth to her third child with husband Kurt Tilse at the end of October.
She already shares sons Fox, five, and Malakai, two, with Kurt, and the happy couple welcomed their newborn with a home birth that they documented in Polaroid photos.
Influencer Sarah’s Day has confirmed she booked her newborn son, Harlow, in for a controversial surgery, a month after his birth.
Sarah gave birth to her third child, baby Harlow, with her husband Kurt Tilse in late October.
The lifestyle YouTuber, who is religious, said she is praying to God for her son during the surgery, which she rushed him to Thursday afternoon.
Sarah wrote that she had booked her baby Harlow in for controversial lip and tongue tie surgery in three weeks.
“But miraculously, the surgeon contacted me and said if we could get there in two hours, I could do it this afternoon.”
A tongue tie occurs when the tissue under the tongue restricts its movements and functions.
Lingual ties occur in approximately three percent of babies and are a condition that can run in families. It is most commonly found in children.
In young babies, it can affect their latch and ability to suck while breastfeeding, which can lead to poor weight gain, according to Queensland Health.
A primary care doctor may suggest a phrenotomy, a surgical procedure in which the lingual frenulum under the tongue (the tie) is released so that the tongue can move more easily.
“Please pray that God gets this whole situation under control and this is the answer to this really difficult time and Harlow’s suffering,” Sarah continued in her emotional caption.
“Things are getting worse and none of us are coping very well.”
The mother of three, pictured giving birth to Harlow, posted on Instagram at 2:39 a.m. Thursday saying she was at a “breaking point” due to her newborn son’s poor sleep.
Lingual ties occur in approximately three percent of babies and are a condition that can run in families. It is most commonly found in children. Pictured: Sarah Day’s newborn.
She already shares sons Fox, five, and Malakai, two, with Kurt, and the happy couple welcomed their newborn with a home birth that they documented in cinematic photographs.
In a post on Wednesday night, Sarah confirmed that she had taken her baby Harlow to see an osteopath, recommended by her sister, who had confirmed that he had problems with his lips and tongue.
“She believes this is the cause of her severe reflux, unstable temperament, and poor sleep,” he wrote in her Stories.
The influencer said she was “crying just thinking” about the four-hour stretches that the osteopath said will need to be performed on Harlow’s wounds after the operation.
“I feel very overwhelmed and anxious about what to do,” she wrote.
In a follow-up post made at 2:39 a.m. Thursday morning, she said she had been up since 11:40 p.m. with her baby and that “mom is on edge.”
The mother of three confirmed in her post that she had relied on comments and messages from her fans to ultimately make the decision to go ahead with the surgery.
“Thank you so much for all your positive comments and experiences with all of your bubs’ lip and tongue releases,” she wrote.
‘I think I will go ahead with the lip-tongue bond release procedure I booked in three weeks’ time. I am at a breaking point and need solutions now. ‘
GPs and researchers believe there is a ‘serious problem’
In a bizarre conclusion, he wrote: “God, this is not fun right now and it makes me so sad I wish his newborn life would just disappear.”
In 2020, the Australian College of Midwives, the Australian Dental Association and 12 other medical associations made a joint statement urging families to seek professional advice to “ensure a restricted frenulum is actually causing the baby’s problems”.
This is due to a sharp increase in the claim rate for Medicare phrenotomy items, which doctors and researchers say has surpassed between two and 10 percent of the population affected by the problem.
According to Medicare data, there were almost 53,000 frenectomies in Australia between 2006 and 2016, with the rate increasing from 1.22 per 1,000 to 6.35 per 1,000 children in that decade. The actual number is likely higher because these figures do not include procedures in public hospitals or those performed by dentists.
Douglas, who contributed to the investigation into the rise in claims, believes there are “serious problems with the overdiagnosis and overtreatment” of braces in Australia.