In a message dated 10/7/00 7:50:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< I needed to have a tongue clipped because a baby had a very tight frenulum
 and had difficulty sucking
 Iold the parents i had watched a video three times on how to do it and I
 also told them I have never done it before
 I told them that it could bleed and i may need a specialist

 They let me do it
 It worked, praise the power of good
 I DID IT ! YESSSSS

 Julius Edlavitch MD
 International Pediatric Chat
 http://www.pedschat.org
 "What Wisdom Can One Have That Is Greater Than Kindness" >>

Way to go, Julius!  I've been routinely clipping tight frenulums when I see
them in the nursery.  It's so simple and easy that I figure I'd just as soon
prevent problems than to have mom present with sore nipples or a baby present
with poor weight gain a week later.  Clipping a frenulum is much easier than
suturing, cleaning cerumen out of ears, doing a circumcision, doing a spinal
tap, starting an IV on a dehydrated 2 yo, removing a foreign body from a
nose, or virtually any other procedure we pediatricians do routinely, that I
can't imagine why most peds are hesitant to do this.  Keep up the good work.

Linda Shaw MD FAAP

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