Story out of Lebanon, Tennessee:
During a family's hospital stay, their newborn was mistaken for another child and surgery was performed on him.
The Melton family delivered a healthy baby boy named, Nate, at the University Medical Center in Lebanon, near Nashville. Soon after his birth, Jennifer Melton, Nate's mother, thought he was going for a routine checkup. But when he was returned she broke down crying hysterically when she found out what happened to her baby.
"The nurse started to mention the procedure they had done that they had clipped his tongue,"
The healthy baby boy had a procedure called a frenulectomy, where the flap of skin under the child's tongue is cut. The procedure is done when the flap of skin is too tight and can cause feeding and speech problems. About 5% of all babies have some form of tongue-tie. It can cause complications, including breast-feeding issues for newborns. Cont. (Video/Autoplay)
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