Okay I know this is a random topic, but my friend just had a baby and she had his tongue tie clipped.
I just wanted to say something to anyone who's deciding whether to have their child's tongue tie clipped as a baby. When I was a baby, I had a tongue tie. It wasn't cut as an infant and I ended up not being able to say "r" "th" "s" and a few other sounds correctly. I got it clipped when I was 5 and it took until 7th grade (I turned 12 that year) to get over the habits I had formed by speaking with a tongue tie. I got teased about it a lot. All of seventh grade I went to maybe two speech therapy sessions because I was embarrassed for anybody to see me walk into the "special needs" hallway because some kids called me retarded a lot (I know, immature of me). I had no mental problems, just a speech issue. At 4, before my tongue tie was clipped, I apparently talked with the vocabulary of an eight year old but the enunciation of a 2 year old. I wish I had gotten the tongue tie clipped as an infant because it would have saved me a ton of teasing (especially in the one group home I was in at one point last time I was in foster care) and frustration (I was regularly misunderstood by teachers, no speaking parts in school programs, etc.). I'm now able to speak normally, but I wish it had never been a problem in the first place. I know the length of time it took for me to be able to speak normally probably also had to do with moving around a lot during the times I was in foster care (about 5 years old then 11 years old, and now but that didn't affect this). In conclusion, PLEASE, if your child has a tongue tie, get it clipped sooner rather than later (That is, if they are still young enough that you don't know if it will cause problems and there are no serious complications that are likely to occur for whatever reason in your case; if they are talking and eating without problems you can probably leave it alone unless the doctor says it should be taken care of and I don't know what would potentially cause serious complications but that should definitely be discussed with a doctor.).
K
Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional and don't claim to be. Before listening to me, listen to a doctor.
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