Tongue-tie

[poppiesinaline]

If a child has tongue-tie which sounds/letters do they have trouble saying? Does anyone know?

My mum, my brother and I are all tongue-tied and none of us have ever had a problem with speech tbh.

we thought ds2 4 was tongue tied at about 4mnths and he started to have trouble with his speech, but we spent lots of time teaching him to stick his tongue out and waggle it and in the last year he seems to not be as bad as before? however i do know that its a very simply operation .

Both my children are tongue tied, my eldest is 13 now, and he has never had any trouble with his speech at all. he was talking in sentences at 22 months!
His pronounciation is perfect.

Dd is only 2 so not sure about her really yet, she isnt speaking as clearly as Ds did, and she has a little lisp, but to be honest i think its just her age more than her tounge tie, as ds's is much tighter than hers and hes fine.
Hope this helps.

Its just that DS2 has very slight tongue-tie. I wasnt sure that it would affect his speech at all but now he is starting to talk I just wanted to keep an eye out just in case.

thanks for replies. These are reassuring.

I didnt know that poppies.. Or did I? my memory is not what it used to be. I read this thread because of DS2 - although he had his tongue snopped when he had one of his ops earlier this year. DH has severe tongue tie, and at 39 you wouldnt know he had it. His speach is fine. Why arent you on MSN???

ds1 is 6 and has tongue tie. he has had no problems with speech it just made breastfeeding impossible.
the only problem we have now is that he insists he wants a normal tongue but around here they refuse to do the simple operation.

choccy I empathise with you enotirely re b/f. It was awful. but all the heatht professionals kept on saying was it was rubbish I should be able to do it. Well I coujldnt.

What part of the country are you in? There is a chap at Southampton hospital who does it. I have all the details somewhere are we were going to get DS2's done, but then he needed other surgery so we waited for that and got it done then.

Chocky - check this page

That brought back a lot of upsetting memories about those first few weeks when I tried to breastfeed. I can't believe that 6 years on it still gets to me lol. Perhaps if the midwife had said that the tongue tie was too severe too carry on with feeding then I might have felt OK about it but they said tongue tie never caused problems. He couldn't even suck from a bottle properly poor thing.
Anyway that was a long time ago.
I'm in leicestershire naswm. I asked my GP when ds1 was a baby and he laughed and said that no one in the UK did that anymore. I knew he was misinformed.
Thank you pupuce I'll book mark that and have a talk with ds1 to see if its what he really wants.

oh choccy I didnt mean to upset you. In fact I got upset writing it. So it did neither of us any good.sory. In fact the only time I cried when DS2 was young was when I was tlaking to someone about not being able to breast feed him. (important for me, as I never used to be able to cry). sorry. that link is good though. There are options to get it snipped if is really bothering him. sorry for upsetting you

oh no you didn't at all.
it just took me by surprise when i remembered those first few weeks. silly really, breastfed or bottle fed he would have still turned into this healthy and rather manic 6 year old.
it would have been nice to have had this information at the time though. i can imagine it preventing a lot of upset and depression in mothers in our situation.

that's ok then. I feel very strongly abotu this. It still gets me though. there was no info out there. the NCT was hopesless bout this. I still cut myself up about the fact that DS2 was not healthy and I stopped breastfeeding him. I wish I could have put up with the pain of mastitis for longer Sorry, but I feel strongly about this topic

soprry for semi hyjack poppies

theres no point in having what ifs.
sometimes you forget the pain as well.
i haven't. it was unbearable, i left it too long, tried for too long. you know you did everything you could but sometimes that sense of guilt gets to me too.
thankfully ds2 didn't have tongue tie, not only did we not have any problems it was blissful for two years. i didn't want to stop.
i feel strongly that HV's and midwives desperately need more tutoring on breastfeeding in general and tongue tie.
i think tongue tie should be snipped at birth as well...

chocy it is on the continent. maybe we shold start a campaign

the thing is that tongue tie doesn't always cause problems with breastfeeding.
i have no idea on the statistics. i guess those that try and fail just assume they couldn't breastfeed, that it is them to blame, like i did.
i think it is a lot more common than HV's suggest.
i can't understand why they can't just snip it, it takes just 60 seconds!

I have never met anyone with a baby with a sever tongue tie who could b/f though. Prepare to be bombarded with millions of those that coud now.........

sorry poppies. Dont be cross with me when you come back and see all this banter tomorow!

chocky {sad] My mum valiantly tried to bf me for a few weeks and then threw in the towel. She said bottlefeeding wasn't much easier - it took an hour for me to take a bottle. And apparently I just screamed a lot (understandably)

She didn't even attempt to bf my brother and said it was easier to bottle feed from the word go.

Apparently my mum had an op to 'correct'her tongue tie when she was a baby which was unsuccesful. Mind you it was many years ago!

Sorry I'm rambling but am trying to say, yes it is bloody hard, there are no miracle cures but don't beat yourself up about it - you did the very best that you given the circumstances! Your are great mums - end of!

sorry naswm - was watching a programme about small boobs! Yeah, DS2 only has very slight tongue tie. I am [shock[ that any health professional would say that was rubbish! My midwife noticed DS2's tongue tie at 3 days and said what a good job I wasnt b/fing as I would have a nightmare - and his was only mild.

Hi poppeies! small boobs lol! can you get on msn for 5 mins?>??

not cross at all naswm - its nice to see my thread has helped someone else. Hope you get it sorted chocy.

My DD had her tongue tie corrected this year, aged 6. She now no longer talks with a lisp and she can stick out her tongue and move it around her mouth and can lick her lips. We are so pleased we had it done although it was scary at the time {for us more than her)