Ds2 is 2.7. He was born with a very large tongue. It stuck out for most of his first two years. He is able to put his tongue into his mouth now and I have become so used to it that I don't really notice how much it sticks out any more. He always sleeps with it stuck out. He has been checked over by a paediatrician who reported that he has no other abnormally large organs and I have no concerns in this regard. He is a normal, happy little boy.
But he still has a very large tongue and this does cause him some problems.
He has speech delay, I think because he struggles with pronunciation. We have had Hannan classes and he is progressing but its very slow. He tries very hard to talk we just struggle to understand him.
He gets a lot of colds and always seems to have a cough. I know that it is normal for toddlers to catch every bug going and its not really a huge problem but he gets ulcers and sores all over his tongue when he has a bug and these are obviously causing him discomfort. His tongue does not swell up or become red in general (accept for the little sores).
I think that this is quite an unusual condition and I have no one with experience of it to talk to about this. If you have a similar child did they grow into their tongue (so to speak). Most people just reassure me that he will grow into it but they don't actually know because they have never seen another similar child.
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Does anyone have a child with a very large tongue?
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Mollified · 10/04/2012 22:10
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