What you describe is almost certainly a tongue tie. The medical term for this is ankyloglossia inferior. The underside of your baby's tongue is attached by a small slip of skin called a frenulum from ...

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My second baby was born with a very short piece of skin adjoining the bottom of her mouth and her tongue. When the hospital paediatrician saw her she said it would need cutting and was best to do this ...

Jaipur: The death of a one-day-old newborn while being transported from Bharatpur to Jaipur last week has highlighted serious shortcomings in paediatric healthcare facilities at district-level medical ...

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Weeks after a 5-month-old infant died during heart surgery in eastern China, an official investigation has found procedural failures and management lapses at the hospital where the operation was ...

Two days after turning 18, Harriet Trewhitt got a tattoo on her left forearm. The design inked into her skin was of a semicolon and was intended to represent the struggle she had been facing with ...

BOTHELL — It’s a big moment when a child stands up on their own for the first time. Exciting and emotional. It was an extra big moment for Yasmin Guzman and her 2 1/2-year-old daughter, Emma, ...

A woman had been preparing to go under the knife for a huge ovarian tumour, but before she was on the operating table, doctors discovered she was pregnant. Suze Lopez, 41, was due to get surgery for a ...