Experiences of tongue-tie revision in older babies?

[LennyLou]

To cut a long story short, DS is 6 months old and has recently been diagnosed with a posterior tongue-tie and an upper lip tie by a lactation consultant.

DH and I are now debating whether or not to get the tongue-tie revised but we're worried about the procedure due to DS age and his imminent teeth making a GA necessary.

Could anyone share their experiences please so we know what we might be letting DS in for?!

We didn't get DSs cut because we didn't know about it at that age. Has anyone talked through what may happen if you don't get it divided?

My DS got his cut at 4/5 months. He is much better because of it and suddenly was a lot noisier and started poking his tongue out.

I mostly did it because I was having continued bf problems and DS had reflux. It solved none of these issues and I switched to formula soon after. He still feeds badly from a bottle now he's 10 months

I am glad we got it done as I didn't want speech etc to be affected and thought there was a chance it might be.

However I will want you it was quite traumatic for us both. Worse for me I think. I had to hold him down and he was very upset, understandably. He was absolutely fine and it went very well but as experiences go it was one of the worst! I went alone and in retrospect I shouldn't have done. It's a different procedure for a baby who is wriggly, alert and is starting good understanding of the world than for a sleepy newborn.

I think DS was close to the cutoff for having it done under some kind of anaesthetic. Obviously that has its own risk, but I would give it some thought if it's an option.