Tongue tie

[pinkyprincess]

According to the Internet and a FB bfing group there is a chance Tyler might have it.

 

[Lulabell]

Can you feel/see it? Is his tongue rounded when its stuck out? Can he extend his tongue and move it quite freely?xx

 

[pinkyprincess]

He seems to move it ok but this is the site http://milkmatters.org.uk/2011/04/15/hidden-cause-of-feeding-problems-however-you-feed-your-baby/ a lot of symptoms have been issues we've had or I've just realised are issues

 

[Lulabell]

Joshua has a heart shaped tip to his tongue due to tongue tie. That was one major sign for us.x

 

[Lulabell]

Yup, they all sound common to what we went through too. Get your HV or breast feeding support to check. My local breast feeding support lady was the the one who spotted Joshua's.xx

 

[muffinferon]

After reading the link my son has some of the 'symptoms' too but not sure if sometimes I can read too much into things like this iykwim as a lot of babies probably,have had some of the symptoms at some point and not being tongue tied. What are you going to do?

 

[l_maclean]

When I read this G has a few as well, I did wonder if this is why she won't latch, but i had figured someone else would have checked it, but after hearing on here that's obviously not the case.

What are you thinking of doing Becky??

Xxx

 

[pinkyprincess]

The Facebook people have given Neva couple of links I'll add in the morning of people that can help check etc. worth getting it checked out for piece of mind.

 

[BabyBrain]

When Albert wouldn't latch on he was checked about 8 times for tongue tie at the hospital, was checked at the home visits too. You'd think they would at least check all babies for it at the paediatric check before discharge instead of sending them home to potential feeding problems and stress

 

[x_larlybelle_x]

Henry has quite a few of those symptoms. Will get him checked out just to be on the safe side.

 

[Lulabell]

When Albert wouldn't latch on he was checked about 8 times for tongue tie at the hospital, was checked at the home visits too. You'd think they would at least check all babies for it at the paediatric check before discharge instead of sending them home to potential feeding problems and stress

Joshua has tongue tie. But when he was born, he latched on straight away perfectly. So I guess there was no reason for concern? Sometimes as they go through growth spurts, that's when it can start to be a problem during feeds. But I do agree and with the next bubs I will get them to check at birth. The whole stress of it all and me feeling like I was doing something wrong was horrible. I do not want to go through that again.x

 

[TORino]

Wow, that is a lot of symptoms. I'd imagine most people experience some of them.

Interesting reading.

I think tongue tie is something that is often misdiagnosed by a lot of professionals.

 

[pinkyprincess]

One of the websites is a local pregnancy organisation do I've sent them an email asking who to contact.

In a way in not worried as he's gaining weight and a happy content baby, but of checking him out and possibly diagnosing something means he'll be even happier and content then I think it's worth doing iykwim?

 

[tinkerbell86]

I got told by the hv that my ds was tongue tied but he was bottle fed and fed fine. At the 8wk check I mentioned it to the dr and he said no he is fine if they can stick their tongue out they aren't tongue tied and might just have a short tongue!

 

[pinkyprincess]

I got told by the hv that my ds was tongue tied but he was bottle fed and fed fine. At the 8wk check I mentioned it to the dr and he said no he is fine if they can stick their tongue out they aren't tongue tied and might just have a short tongue!

Did u read the website? Where it says that a lot of doctors misdiagnose because bottle feeding rates have gone up, so the don't need to be able to? I don't trust my local health professionals, my nurse told me to do controlled crying on him, my HV told me that 'some babies just don't sleep'

 

[prettypenguin]

Jayceesmumma might know about this Im pretty sure Lilyanna had it x

 

[Lisa_85]

Issac was checked st birth they said he was fine then at 3months he was diagnosed with a TT they don't check every baby st birth because its so common but at the same time it doesn't affect every babies feeding. I am on my mobile so can't see the link yet but Issac was fussy know the breast and his tongue didn't lift when crying and he could only just poke out of his mouth.
If it isn't causing you any problems when feeding they my not see the need to divide it. For me 3months was too late and j had to resort to bottle rather than breast xx

 

[jojo_2012]

I didn't know tongue shape was a sign, L's tongue looks like a lizards, I've been trying to snap a pic but it goes away. The HV thought something might be wrong but we both agreed if it aint broke don't fix it. Might let her have another look now just in case there's a speech problem later on.

 

[Lulabell]

Here is a pic of Joshuas tongue about a month and a half ago.

Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e

 

[pinkyprincess]

Tyler proper wiggles his about. It's his latest thing!