Today - at 2 months and 1 day old - Cohen had his first surgery.
He's tongue-tied ... yep, someone in our family is tongue-tied. Never thought that could happen, did ya? Well, neither did we, so we had it fixed :)
The technical term is "tight frenulum" - what it means is the little piece of skin that connects his tongue to the bottom of his mouth is really short and it's connected at the very tip of his tongue (well, it was until about 9:30am today).
Sometimes this causes trouble with sucking/eating - but he's been doing ok. But, it could cause problems later in life - he couldn't stick out his tongue at his brother or sister, or lick an ice cream cone, or kiss a girl - oh yeah, and it can cause speech impediments.
So - we went to see a specialist today - who promptly performed the "frenulectomy" (he grabbed his tongue, numbed it with lidocaine and snipped it with scissors).
He's a happy boy - can you see the difference???
But here's the face we love to see!!!
2 comments:
YEah! So glad that the little guy is doing great:) Can't wait to meet him in person!
Awww poor little Cohen!
Okay, I know I should make a joke about being tongue-tied, being a Gresham, and the relative improbability of the two co-existing. I must be getting soft in my old age!
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