Painful twist in tongue tie horror for newborn babies

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 their worried parents.

One of my sons and two of my grandchildren were said to have tongue tie. I was pressured by ­midwives and health visitors to have the “tie” cut surgically, as were my daughters-in-law.