Wobbles

Sorry to be silly but what is tongue tie? What did your friend get snipped?

Soz if its a dumb Q!

Layla

its like a bit of skin tieing your tongue down, its really hard to explain.

I have it, Ethan and Coby have it, Charlie got away with it lol, we cant stick out tongues out further than out lip, it makes breastfeeding harder coz the baby has to suck more, and can cause delayed speech.
Ethan used to say doat and tencil instead of boat and pencil and struggled to sound words out untill he was about 5, now he is fine tho.

It doesnt affect me atall as an adult, expect i cant get my tongue periced lol

here is a picture of one so you can see, its hard to expalin it right

http://tonguetie.ballardscore.com/images/figure1.jpg

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Wobbles

Ah I see Layla. Pains lil ones when younger then?

Layla

it doesnt hurt them i dont think, they just have to work at things a bit harder for a while.

Ethan is 7 now and he speaks fine and everything is normal with him.

You can get that bit of skin cut at birth so it allowes the tongue to move normaly, but i dont think i could do that to a baby, they dont numb it or anything, just snip it with a pair of scissor things.

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Wobbles

That made me cringe!! I couldn't do it to myself so I couldn't do it to my baby!!

Layla

yeah me too, when she told me she had it done to her baby i was a bit shocked.

If it caused long term problems then MAYBE i would consider it, but its never done me any harm and Ethan is ok now so i couldnt do it to a baby knowing it was a short term problem

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Tilly

I went up from 9 stones 10 approx to about 13 1/2 stones with Bethanie, so my boobs went from a 34C to about a 38DD.. I was wearing an F cup a few days after giving birth, my boobs were like fooking footballs! and they hurt so much.. ouch! I wasn't sure if my boobs got bigger because of pregnancy or just because I was eating for 2, 3 or 4.. lol.

Like someone else said though, the amount of milk doesn't count on the size of your boobs so don't worry.

Kina

Layla I know someone who had the tongue tie op done on their baby, they had to go privately as our local authority wouldn't pay for it. Straight after they did it they told her to breastfeed and the baby healed really quickly. I don't think it was too traumatic but I can understand totally how you feel

Spunky Cupkake

hi layla i agree with beanine i breast feed my 3 and when i was preg with angharad mine went massive after i had her they went bigger again but i only managed to feed her for 7 weeks as my milk was just not feeding her im gutted as ive done it with my other 2 and only managed to 7 on her so i dont think size means a good supply xx

MrsE

I have that, a piece of skin pulls tight so I can only stick my tongue out a little. (DH calls me turtle tongue )
But my mum breast fed me fine and I was quite advanced with my walking talking etc so it never did me any harm.

My Dentist noticed it a while ago and told me her baby has had the skin cut and she asked if I'd had any problems. I didn't realise it was so common.

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