Sentences with phrase «called tongue tie»

Your baby will also be tested on his tongue to check for a condition called tongue tie which could make it difficult for your baby to move his mouth.

When Zelda was born, she had something that I had never heard of called a tongue tie and a lip tie.

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With a tongue - tie, a stretchy band of tissue under the tongue (called a frenulum) is tighter than it should be.

When a baby has this tight band of tissue under the tongue, it is called «tongue - tie» or ankyloglossia.

She said he had an extra membrane on his tongue (called being «tongue tied») that was interfering with feeding.

The most common treatment for tongue - tie is a procedure called frenotomy or frenulectomy that uses surgical scissors or a laser to divide the membrane and release the tongue.

There is also a condition called «tongue tie» where your baby has a short tongue and this causing problems with latching on properly, leading to baby getting less milk out of your breast.

Yes, tongue - tie is easily corrected with a simple, safe, and immediately effective surgical procedure called a frenotomy.

If the connecting skin under your baby's tongue (a membrane called the frenulum) is short or extends too far toward the front of her tongue, she has a condition called ankyloglossia, or tongue - tie.

The tongue or lip tie may also be called a tight lingual or labial frenulum, or in diagnostic terms, ankyloglossia.

Called primary lactation failure, this condition occurs when a mother's body does not make an adequate amount of milk for her baby, even when everything else (including but not limited to: latch and positioning, breastfeeding frequency and exclusivity, mother and baby are kept together, baby's oral anatomy is fine — no tongue tie, cleft palate) is in order.

In some cases in which a baby seems unable to latch on properly the problem may be related to a medical condition called ankyloglossia, also referred to as «tongue - tied».

Called «primary lactation failure,» this condition occurs when a mother's body does not make an adequate amount of milk for her baby, even when everything else is in order (including but not limited to: latching and positioning, breastfeeding frequency and exclusivity, mother and baby being kept together, baby's oral anatomy is fine with no tongue - tie or cleft palate).

Tongue - tie (ankyloglossia) affects 4 to 11 % of newborns.4 It means the strip of skin that attaches the tongue to the bottom of the mouth, called the lingual frenulum, is too Tongue - tie (ankyloglossia) affects 4 to 11 % of newborns.4 It means the strip of skin that attaches the tongue to the bottom of the mouth, called the lingual frenulum, is too tongue to the bottom of the mouth, called the lingual frenulum, is too short.

Many babies can stick out the tip of their tongue when they are not feeding, but still have a tongue tie hidden further back under their tongue (often called a posterior tongue tie).

The medical, by the way, is ankyloglossia, but even I just call it «tongue - tie.»

If you discover the tongue - tie very early (newborn and young infants), a frenotomy (also called frenectomy) may be a good option.

As a mother, I was certain that having my sons» tongue - tie corrected to assist with breastfeeding was a good call.

Tongue - tie in infants can often be fixed by a surgery called a «frenotomy», in which the doctor simply snips the frenulum in - office, and then immediately applies the baby to the mother's breast.

She felt its commanding logic, both internal and external, powerful enough to keep her tethered to home, to silence the fears that she would never write again, eliminate the horrid daydream in which she sometimes indulged, about simply walking away from this alternative life she was living, filled with its soft poetry and hard tediousness, its spectacular, love - ridden times measured against meaningless hours and days and weeks and months, a life where her past accomplishments were long forgotten, where she was called, most often, Joan Manning, leaving her tongue - tied and wishing she could say, «I'm not Joan Manning, I'm Joan Ashby, the writer.»

Kiwanga's play focuses on the myth of the so - called «Afrotunnel», a tunnel underneath the Strait of Gibraltar (Strata (Technicolor), 2016) and Hamadeh's immersive and at times almost violently loud sound installation / performance, Can You Pull In an Actor With a Fishhook or Tie Down His Tongue With a Rope?