Tongue Tie Surgery: Inside the Business of Cutting Babies’ Tongues – The New York Times
supporting mothers and their families in Westchester and Fairfield Counties
supporting mothers and their families in Westchester and Fairfield Counties
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comment on NYT piece that I found immensely helpful for parents trying to educate themselves:
“As the former director of the breathing and feeding disorders program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, then later at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, I had many infants referred to me for evaluation for tongue-tie and possible surgery. In virtually all these infants, the use of sound parental education and patience was all that was ever needed to get these children to feed successfully. Of the many infants that we saw for tongue-tie, we never needed to clip a single frenulum, and we closely monitored all these children until they had become totally successful at feeding. What most physicians and parents do not understand is that the anterior portion of the tongue grows significantly more than the posterior portion and children therefore will almost always outgrow a tongue-tie without the need for surgery. Even children with a deep indentation of their anterior tongue initially will be able to feed and thrive without the need for surgery. One of my own granddaughters, who initially was slow to nurse, was scheduled for a frenulum clipping until I stopped it. She soon nursed fine with a little encouragement, and is now a thriving 11 y.o. beautiful young girl. Not every family, however, has a grandfather with my level of experience, and so far too many of these surgeries are being done, often with the poor results noted by several families. Yes, there are exceedingly rare infants who do need a frenulum clipping, but they are very few and far between.”
– Alan Spitzer, MD