What are the symptoms of a tongue tied baby?
Sometimes mothers will experience painful feeding, grazing or damage to the areola or nipple, or even mastitis. Babies may latch on poorly, require several attempts to latch and become frustrated. They may make a clicking noise when feeding. Feeding may be prolonged, and the baby may still be hungry and be irritable, or be ready to feed again within an hour or two. Some babies have problems with excessive wind and may be in pain or suffer from vomiting as a result of swallowing wind. These are some of the more common symptoms of a tongue tie causing problems with breast feeding. The baby who had the tongue tie in the image above on the left was not having as many problems feeding as the baby with the tongue tie on the right. Both improved with their feeding after division was performed. So a tongue tie may not look dramatic but may still be causing significant restriction of tongue movement. Will it affect my baby’s speech later on? Again it depends, but most tongue ties won’t affect s
