Catherine:
In a message dated 96-12-27 14:40:36 EST, you write:

>A "bunched" tongue is a thick tongue due to low intrinsic muscle
>tone.  Since the muscles are low in tone, they are more difficult to
>activate/contract, and the infant expends more effort in sucking.  It may
>also be difficult or impossible to latch on if the tone is very low.

i find your definition to be provocative. I will have to think about this and
determine if I agree,or disagree. So far, I am not quite sure because i am
not sure we are using the term the same way. Can you describe what you see
when you name the phenomenon "bunched" tongue? i certainly have seen what i
call bunching with a tongue that has normal tone but a very short and tight
linguial frenulum. The restriction created by the lingual frenulum prevents
the tongue from spreading normally and i term this bunching. Are we using
same term to describe different things?

Alison