Half my kids were born wth a short frenulum. That's the stretchy bit
of flesh that connects the tongue to the bottom of the mouth. Born with
a short one and you're known as "tongue-tied."
"Cut it," advised the nurse. "She won't be able to talk."
"Leave
it alone for now; she'll grow out of it," said the doctor, "even though
it looks like a devil tongue, look!" and I could see her tongue
splitting nearly in two inside her tiny mouth. But HELLO, cut off part
of my kid? A tiny helpless infant? (not to mention the "devil tongue"
thing. We didn't go back to that asshat.)
Yeah, well, it
turns out that I could have saved both of us a LOT of breastfeeding
grief had I gone ahead and had her tongue snipped.
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