Tongue-Tied DC?

Mal_n_Mel

I was looking online over the weekend and I think that DS may be slightly tongue-tied. 

Just wondering if anyone knows anything about this?  Thanks!

DaiLyght

Kori should have some good information. DS2 was a little. We had it corrected while still in the hospital after birth.

Expecting0207

I am tongue tied as is my daughter.  It doesn't affect either of us at all.  Some people have the frenulum cut in the hospital if it will affect the baby's latch or if they are severely tongue-tied it could affect their speech development.  It does not affect my speech at all.  We opted not to have DD's frenulum snipped.

KoriBrett

Both of mine are/were. 

DD was pretty bad, but she nursed ok and it didn't interfere w/her speech until after she turned 2.  We waited to see what would happen.  Then, we could tell some things were sounding funky, and she still could not stick her tongue out past her lip, and it was still indented in the middle.  So we had her frenulum clipped a couple months ago.  Some insurances won't pay for the procedure unless they can't eat.  Speech isn't a medical necessity for this (believe it or not).

 DS is a little bit, but he can already stick his tongue out farther than DD ever could - and he nurses MUCH more easily.  We'll wait and see with him, also.  I just don't want to do things just in case - if it's a problem, I'm happy to get it done.  If it's not, eh, don't fix it if it's not broken.  ;-)

CoolMoD

DD was born completely tongue-tied, to the very tip of her tongue. The ENT we saw while still in the hospital didn't think it would be a big deal and wanted to wait until after she started babbling to see how it would affect her speech, but she had a very hard time latching so we got a second opinion. The second ENT snipped it right away. It healed almost immediately, and she barely even noticed that it happened. If it hadn't been as extreme, I'm not sure we would have gone the same route, but I'm glad we did.