At what age did you get you bubs/child tongue tie snipped?
We got Miss B's done around 4mths - we didn't know she had it until i saw the love heart shapped tongue in the bath one day!
Miss Em has it too but it isn't as bad as Miss B's was! i could breast feed Emily no worries! however we are noticing it a little more now, and think we should get it done! but she is now 8mths old
So just wondering how old your bubba's were when you got it done! and how they handled it!
I haven't had kids with tongue tie but I have a few adult friends with it who never had theirs cut - maybe it wasn't done so much back then (actually one of them has a surgeon for a father so he could have just done it himself I guess).
Does she need to have it done? Is it impacting on her feeding at all?
DS's was done in hospital at around 3 days old - we were having feeding issues. Because he was so young he didn't comprehend what was happening to him, cried for a couple of minutes and then was fine after that. An adult friend of mine only recently had his done last year.
My 9 yr old has a tongue tie & it has come up now & then re cutting it but its never been an issue so it hasn't been done. He has a slight lisp with "SSSS" sounds but that it. We had t looked at by a dental specialist who said he wouldn't bother seems its nt effecting him.
So if your DD is 8 months & its not bothering her, leave it.
If it's not interfering with feeding, then maybe you could leave it. I cut DS's and would have cut DD if she'd had one, because of the detrimental effect it was having on my nipples (I had oversupply, so he was getting filled, but hurting me and I got nipple vasospasm from it). DS only cried because he'd been asleep, and fell asleep as soon as hands were out of his mouth. If it weren't affecting feeding, I'd be going to a speech path to get their opinion, and then a second opinion from another SP, to be sure.
No-one's saying you're a bad mum, silly billy!!
I took Ds to see the MCHNs to see about his, they said they wouldn't snip as it wasn't affecting his feeding, but that we could get it looked at again later on if it seemed to be affecting his speech or teeth (more decay caused by not being able to move food properly with the tongue)
I do think It is affecting DS speech though now, he can speak quite clearly but has trouble with a few sounds that I associate using the tongue to form in certain ways, for eg, he say gook (look) anything that has the l sound he has trouble with .
take him back to get looked at I guess ... No one has ever seemed that worried about it, its genetic on both sides of DS family. (mine and DP's) supposedly it will stretch (and it has, quite a bit, since he was really little) and resolve the problem, but I guess if its still a problem now, I should get off my bum and do something about it! LOL
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