Dentists and lactation consultants around the country are pushing “tongue-tie releases” on new mothers struggling to breastfeed. A baby was examined before a tongue-tie release in a clinic in ...

It’s estimated that tongue tie occurs in four to 11 out of 100 newborns (Photo: Shutterstock) I’ve had personal experience of ­dealing with tongue tie – that bane of newborn babies and ...

Tongue-tie surgery is a small procedure that can help some babies with breastfeeding. Here's what you need to know.

The body of newborn baby girl was found abandoned in a plastic packet on a farm on the KZN North Coast. A scrap collector made the discovery. Picture: RUSA ...

have tongue tie. I was pressured by ­midwives and health visitors to have the “tie” cut surgically, as were my daughters-in-law. Knowing that tongue tie can resolve on its own as the baby ...

A BABY born with a giant tongue that nearly choked her to death can finally smile again after doctors sliced away half of it. Aparajit Lodhi was born with a rare congenital anomaly called Macroglos… ...

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This exposes a baby to unspeakable pain, which itself would deter feeding, bleeding, infection and long-term ­scarring without a scrap of evidence in favour of the procedure. I can hardly bear to ...