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No experience myself, but a friend of mine waited until her son was about a year to get it done, and wished she had it done sooner. For her second, she had it done almost right away.

I wish we'd done it sooner (she was 5 weeks and a couple days). Things started to improve right away but it took about 2 weeks after the procedure for it to be fully improved.

Lo's was clipped around 2 months and the ENT warned me that it would not be an immediate, instantaneous fix. It took us an additional few weeks to really get all our issues resolved (which weren't 100% related to the tongue tie).

However, my friend's LO has struggled with speech due to having a severe tongue tie and if she could go back as have it revised sooner, she would!

My ENT described the pain as similar to having your ears pierced. Uncomfortable, but over in a second. LO nursed immediately after and was fine in 1-2 minutes.

I felt really guilty prior to the procedure, but afterward, no regrets. LO is 14m and still nursing.

@Mae: we didn't have our lo's lasered and the outcome was still great. May I ask why laser vs traditional?

With DS we had upper and lower frenula clipped at 5 days old. It didn't help much TBH. I wish we had followed up with cranialsacral therapy. However, I think what helped most of all was time. DS had a teeny tiny mouth and I think he just could not open up wide enough to get a good latch. Around 3.5 months things sorted themselves out (I think because his mouth was bigger by then) and we went on to successfully BF until 13 months.

Do it, do it, do it!! We had Miss A's tongue and lip tie cut at 6 and 7 weeks and although it wasn't an instant fix, it definitely made a difference!

The procedure itself took less than five minutes and we nursed straight after and by bedtime that night, LO was back to her usual self.

I had it clipped in elementary school to fix a speech problem and went back to school the next day. The results weren't immediate (there was lots of therapy), but that was the semester the kids finally stopped teasing me about how I talked. I absolutely wish it had been done earlier since the speech impediment marked me as a SPED kid and that was hard to shake until we were re-tracked in high-school.