Does any one have a child or know any one who is tounge tied?

Question

My son is 1 and has the condition. His operation app. is not till may. But im starting to notice that he dosnt talk yet. I want to know if this condition will effect his speach, Some doctors say it will some say it wont,. Ive had him to many differant doctors. Now im looking for personal views.

Answer 1

My son is also tongue tied, but the doctor said that as long as he can stick it out passed his gums he should be fine. You can't really tell if there is a problem until he does start talking. My doctor won't do anything until there appears to be a problem. Good luck, hope that it works out for you.

Answer 2

My son's tongue was tied. The doctors said that there are people that are "tongue tied" and have no problems with speech, but we had the operation done. He wasn't speaking very much even by the age of three. The operation is painful, so be prepared for some long nights afterwards. Pedialyte popcicles saved our day.

Speech development is different in each child. Both of my girls talked clearly in full conversations at 2. My son took until he was 3 to have something to say. We went through the speech therapist and he was very cognitive, just not very verbal. Each child has there own way to develop and don't let anyone tell you it's wrong.

Good luck!!

Answer 3

My friend's daughter has moderate tongue tie in it makes the way she talks a little weird, almost a lisp. They are going to get the surgery.

As a note to other parents, she really regrets not getting it done when her daughter was an infant. Not only did it make it hard for her to daughter drink a bottle now it requires general anesthetic. Now it isn't that babies don't feel pain, or that they shouldn't receive anesthetic for a frenectomy, but a baby can generally have it cut because they don't move as much and the skin is much thinner.

Doctors and midwives used to always take of this at birth, now they don't even check, sometimes even when a baby is having failure to thrive because it is interfering with their ability to suck.

Answer 4

My friend's daughter was severely tongue tied. As soon as the procedure was done she was talking faster, not speed but more words, and with more precision. She was about two when they decided to have it done. Why they waited? I don't really know.

I'm betting that since your son is only 1, he'll probably have the same chance of having a speech problem as a child without having been tongue tied.

Answer 5

My husband's brother was tongue tied and had the operation when he was a baby. He is a grown man now and speaks very well. He is fluent in 4-5 languages.

Answer 6

Are you kidding me! My son was born that way and couldn't breastfed. He was a week old when we took him to a specialist they weren't going to fix it tell six months old but since I want to breastfed they did it then. They just clip it right there in hes office. They did tell me that if I waited to long after six months he would have speech problems. He's 2 1/2 now and is right were he is suppose to be in speaking.

Answer 7

it's not a hard surgery for them to go through, and is best done at the young age. yes, it can effect there speech. i have a cousin that had this problem, and a nephew that just went through this last summer, and both did fine after. your son is still young now too, and he'll talk fine, just continue to talk to him, as i'm sure you know this is how they learn! he'll be talking before you know it, and won't stop unless he's asleep! :)

Answer 8

My cousin had a bit of a speech problem until he had his surgery to fix it. But, after they snipped it, he was able to pronounce his letters and words with ease. It was almost an immediate improvement. I guess it would depend on the severity for each incident, but in my cousins situation, it was very benefitial and he speaks normally today.
Good luck.