I think DS, aged 4, has a tongue-tie. Should I be concerned?

[NoseyNooNoo]

My daughter's tongue is not a nice oval shape when she shows me (as mine is) but has an indent in the middle of it. Having googled tongue-tie it seems that she probably has a tongue tie.

Should I be concerned? Will this impact her in later life?

Any thoughts would be very gratefully received.

DS was born with a TT, the midwife could see it straight away and said they would only do something about it if he could not suckle properly or if it later affected his speech severely enough to be a social problem

it has been neither, so if your DD has been OK up to now and has no speech problems, i don't think you need to worry!

my dd has this, and has seen a maxfax consultant. Advice is to leave alone if it isn't interfering with speech or feeding.

Can she stick her tongue out at all? How is her speech/eating?

It depends how bad it is, take her to the doctors and get it looked at - worst case, they'll snip it (not the GP, they'd refer her on) which takes seconds

She can definitely stick her toungue out and she can definitely eat fine.

Are there particular sounds that a tongue-tie could make it difficult to pronounce? Her speech isn't perfect at the moment.

At 4 it wouldn't be, though. I would think that if she can stick her tongue out and has no problems with eating/dribbling then she should be OK.

Recently went to a speech and language session and was told that some speech sounds are typically mispronounced until around 7/8 years, so unless she has major problems there I would be inclined to wait and see.

Of course, if you are really concerned just pop into the drs surgery and get him to take a look. :)

Thank you - I was just wondering if I was being a bad mum not doing anything about it.