At 12:03 PM -0400 7/23/06, Catherine Watson Genna, IBCLC wrote:
>... if the frenulum regressed during fetal development as it should have ...

Does this mean that tongue-ties are more common 
in preterm infants? What about near-term infants?

If so, would the increase in scheduled inductions 
and c-sections in recent times explain why there 
seem to be more tongue-tied infants?

Tina


»@«*´`*»@«*´`*»@«*´`*´¯`·.¸¸  ¸¸.·´¯`*´`*»@«*´`*»@«*´`*»@«

Tina Kimmel, MSW, MPH
PhD Program, UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare
Dissertation: The Effect of Welfare Reform on Breastfeeding Rates

             ***********************************************

To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail
To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest)
To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet
All commands go to [log in to unmask]

The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned
LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R)
mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html