This is for my darling little sister (she actually rang me up and said, Rach, can you ask this on BellyBelly, she should just join herself ).
Her DD has just been diagnosed with tongue tied at the 6 week check. It’s apparently not casing any problems with BFing, her DD is fully BF and was born on the 98% and is still right on the 98% (little chubba). BFing does hurt for my sis but she has flat/inverted nipples like me so the hurting thing is well within the range of normal under those circumstances. Her nipples aren’t being damaged so we guess it’s all ok and the pain will pass in time (at about the 4 month mark for me, I’ve told her). Her DD can’t make her tongue into a point, it stays as a heart-shape and she can’t stick it out very far.
So does it need to be snipped? She saw a nurse today and is seeing a paed tomorrow. The nurse was really worried about it affecting her DD’s speech. My sis doesn’t want to do anything unnecessary, especially seeing as feeding seems to be going OK. What do they do when they snip it, and what are the risks/benefits. Help and advice please.
Last edited by Epacris; September 30th, 2010 at 02:13 PM.
She would probably be best to get it snipped in the long run. DD2 has a mild tounge tie that wasn't picked up till the 6wk check as well and the Dr said it wasn't bad enough to justify snipping so we left it. But then she could stick her tounge out enough to feed properly so it wasn't causing any issues.
My last 2 children have both been tongue tied. My DS2 was worse than my DD2 but both hurt me when breast feeding. Both were snipped as it isn't just the speech but dental hygiene can become an issue when they're older.
The snip is done so quickly that there is little to no pain for them. Both of my children cried more about having their head held than the actual snip itself as when we let go of their heads, they stopped crying and latched on perfectly.
Both my kids had them.
DD1's was nearly 100% and we got it snipped at 9 weeks, Breastfeeding was impossible and we were worried about speach issues.
DD2's wasnt bad at all, no issues feeding so we just left it.
I heard of someone who's three yr old, wouldnt/couldnt speak, worked out it was a tongue tie, had it snipped and she was as good as gold (she was being assessed for autism)
Its a personal choice, if she wants to get it done tell her to do it b4 12 weeks, because after that they dont like to do it because the skin gets quite thick and can bleed alot.
Also she might find that bub has to re-learn how to feed with a fully mobile tongue.
But fi she does get it done she wont have to worry about it causing speech and teeth problems.
The proceedure is done with no local or anything, the tongue is held up and the skin flap is snipped and gauze is put on in it immediately till the blood flow eases then they suggested feeding bub. its over very quickly
DS had a mild tongue tie. I might have interfered with feeding, or maybe it was something else - still not 100% sure. Anyway, we tried to go get it snipped to see and were told it wasn't necessary. It doesn't seem to have affected his speech.
If she's sure there's no problem with latching, then it's probably fine to leave it. Really up to her I guess.
If she's still young enough to get it snipped without the GA I would get it done now.
DS2 had to have it done under a GA when he was a toddler and it became apparent that it was causing speech issues. It was rather stressy for me and he was sore afterwards and of course a GA always have risks that are best avoided.
DS had a tounge tie, Paed snipped it about day 4 I think. DH had to go with him, I couldn't go. Anyhoo, Paed said there could be issues with feeding, speech and dental hygine. Our Paed actually had a tounge tie and he said he wished his mum had had his snipped but they didn't do it when he was a baby.
my DS2 has a mild tonge tie that was picked up at his 6 week check, hes nearly 3 months and the docs say to leave it for now as he is BF without hurting me (but it did hurt the first 2 weeks) and gaining weight normally . We will be seeing a ped in april as he has a belly button hernia and a slightly diolated kidney so im sure the ped will let us know what is best for the lil fellow.
he is a bit of a sloppy feeder now and does a lot of dribbling as he feeds dont know if that has anything to do with a tounge tie
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Help/advice – Tongue tied diagnosed in 6 week old
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her DD is fully BF and was born on the 98% and is still right on the 98% (little chubba). BFing does hurt for my sis but she has flat/inverted nipples like me so the hurting thing is well within the range of normal under those circumstances. Her nipples aren’t being damaged so we guess it’s all ok and the pain will pass in time (at about the 4 month mark for me, I’ve told her). Her DD can’t make her tongue into a point, it stays as a heart-shape and she can’t stick it out very far.
. We will be seeing a ped in april as he has a belly button hernia and a slightly diolated kidney so im sure the ped will let us know what is best for the lil fellow.
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