Look, a new tongue!

Collin had a frenulumectomomy about two weeks ago due to his tongue tie (the tissue that attaches to the bottom side of your tongue extended all the way to the tip of his tongue and made swallowing food difficult and would have caused speech problems). This is a very basic procedure where they put clamps on the tissue to cut off blood supply, after numbing the area, and then clip it. Daddy held him while I occupied Ethan and Collin didn't even cry! The problem was noticed shortly after birth but most pediatricians have a wait and see policy unless there is a serious problem nursing and there wasn't. But as time went on, I realized it was causing some problems and he had a hard time eating solids. I had to convince the pediatrician we needed a referral to an ENT (the ENT was very proactive believing it would definitely cause speech problems), but I was very nervous about it even though I knew it was the right decision. There were no after-care issues and breastfeeding was already easier. About a week later, Collin realized that his tongue was different and did something amazing: he stuck his tongue out for the first time! For the next week I couldn't get him to keep his tongue in his mouth! We joked about him being our little Michael Jordan but I worried he would bite his tongue. He's finally able to eat thick foods but he still doesn't like chunky foods.