Hi
MY DD is 10 months and has quite a severe tongue tie. She did manage to breast feed OK so it wasn't snipped when little. We pushed to see a specialist and he agreed that it was quite bad but by the time we saw him she was 16 weeks so too old to snip and far too young to snip under GA.
He didn't think she would have any problems with solids but couldn't be sure. I am unconvinced that she does have problems as she will quite happily gnaw on toast, rice cakes, breadsticks etc.
But she is a poor eater so do wonder whether it may have an effect - eg she gets tired for example. She is OK with lumps but does lose interest v quickly in whatever she eats. She isn't huge (between 25-50th percentiles) so I realise she won't eat massively (esp compared to DS who was 99th percentile and ate everything and anything!). I just wondered whether anyone had any experience of a tongue tied baby BF OK but not solids.
Also last week her tongue tie was v sore - she has stretched the tie a little so she can stick her tongue out a tiny bit (before she couldn't do it at all) and I think the piece of skin must have been rubbing on her teeth. I went to the dr who said she had thrush but I think this isn't the case as she didn't have it anywhere else plus it has gone away (she has stopped trying to stick her tongue out) and we didn't use the medicine
Would love to hear if anyone has any comments - am sure she is probably just a bad eater rather than it being to do with the tongue tie!