KL - Ivy had a tongue-tie as well. I was soooo scared of getting it fixed but because she was having so much trouble feeding already because of premmie issues, I didn't want anything else to interfere. My brother has one and he told me that he has always found it problematic and it may have contributed to him needing speech therapy when he was little. I was also told by several midwives that I trusted that babies don't fuss that much getting it fixed... In spite of all of this, I was TERRIFIED when i agreed to get it sorted.

I was crying beforehand and had to leave the room as I couldn't look. Hubby told me that they put a little bit of sucrose into Ivy's mouth (to give a positive association with the procedure) and that she was so busy licking her lips and getting all excited about the sweet taste in her mouth, she didn't even notice the procedure! I came back in a minute later expecting to see my poor baby screaming in pain and instead found a happy sleepy baby smacking her lips with pleasure!!

Of course, we can't know that Kyson will have such an easy time of it, but I'm told that most babies don't even cry - but their Mummies always do!

HTH