I have a few new posts so be sure to check those out too on down!
But I just wanted to share a huge PRAISE and also let you all in on something I had never heard of nor would have ever thought to look for. Yesterday Bo was extremely fussy. It had been a bad night so I just thought he was tired or gassy. Praise the sweet Lord that Bobby came home to get something and came in to see him and asked me what was wrong with his finger. I looked down and it basically looked like 2 separate fingers, extremely swollen. We turned on the light only to see his sweet finger wrapped with HAIR! We tried to get it unwrapped and he started SCREAMING, I mean worse than I have ever heard him cry. I started to panic and called one of my dearest friends, Heather, who is a pediatrician and also by the grace of God, she was home. She explained it was called a hair tourniquet and that I needed to get him to my doctor. I called and they asked me how soon I could get there. I drove 85 mph to get there and the nurse was waiting on me. The doc came right in and had to use a suture removal kit to get it off. They can be extremely dangerous and can cut off circulation, result in surgery and most severely, in the loss of an appendage. Heather said if a baby is super fussy, and they aren't running a fever or have no other symptoms, she will look for a hair tourniquet. Most parents do not notice them until the appendage has swollen severely. You cannot prevent them, but I will now religiously check. Be sure to check fingers, toes and on boys, their private areas. The picture of Bo's finger is a full 24 hours after the removal so you can imagine how bad it was! We are SOOO thankful God allowed everything to work so smoothly for us to catch this and for his finger to be okay! So be sure to check on your babies...especially ones who are still curling their fists and toes.
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Um, yep, we experienced that several months ago on Chaz's penis. Yikes! Thankfully he was old enough to tell me what hurt so I could do a thorough inspection before it got bad enough for me to have to take him to the doctor. It was actually a hair from one of Liza Jane's dolls that they play with in the bathtub. Now I do a full body check after bathtime. Yikes!
oh my word!! poor little bo...i am SOOO glad that you guys noticed it. how terrifying!! he is getting so BIG..i cannot believe it!!
I know -- I had never heard of it before either . . UNTIL it happened to my sister's little boy, Jonah. On his penis. AWFUL! Poor kiddo. He had been fussy and out of shape for a whole weekend before the figured it out, but all was ok!
Glad little Bo is ok -- yay!
Erin
That is TERRIBLE! I'm so glad he's okay. I have heard of this happening with loose strings on toes from the inside of footie pajamas too.
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