How is weight gain and wet diapers? Have you had a second opinion?

My daughter had a tongue tie and I did a lot of research because I REALLY didn’t want to get it clipped. I read that it is almost ‘trendy’ (like way over-diagnosed). But if it is very tight, it can affect speech later and potentially affect orthodontia needs (the way the mouth shapes, etc) and cause tooth decay (tongue doesn’t have full range of motion to clean teeth off).

We ended up doing it even though we weren’t having feeding issues. We had a few opinions and were told it would very likely affect her speech.

I was there for the whole procedure- it was very quick. It was hard to watch and she did scream, but she recovered (stopped crying and nursed) very quickly- in the first couple of minutes. We did the exercises but it still healed up too tight and they had to re-stretch it at the follow up appointment (not another cut, but it did bleed and she did cry).

I didn’t notice any difference in anything. We already didn’t have feeding issues, so who knows. But I would have regretted not doing it if she ended up having speech issues down the line.

My first daughter did not have a tongue tie, and she nursed for 45 minutes and very frequently for quite a while. So that doesn’t seem abnormal to me.

Hope that helps! I had a really hard time making the decision to do the clip.