Great Ormond Street Hospital has a number of very useful resources:

An information sheet about BWS. This can be found at:

gosh.nhs.uk/conditions-and-treatments/conditions-we-treat/beckwith-wiedemann-syndrome-bws

An information sheet about the Macroglossia Service for children with BWS. This can be found at:

gosh.nhs.uk/parents-and-visitors/clinical-support-services/multidisciplinary-macroglossia-service-children-beckwith-wiedemann-syndrome-bws

An information sheet about tongue reduction surgery. This can be found at:

gosh.nhs.uk/medical-information/procedures-and-treatments/tongue-reduction-surgery

An information sheet about the clinical outcomes of tongue reduction surgery. This can be found at:

gosh.nhs.uk/health-professionals/clinical-outcomes/beckwith-wiedemann-syndrome-clinical-outcomes

To donate to Paddy MacLachlan for his Channel Swim aiming to raise £10,000 for Great Ormond Street please see his just giving page at

justgiving.com/fundraising/paddy-maclachlan