Just a quick post to warn you to check bubs fingers and toes regularly! Lucie just spent 2 hours in emergency because she had got a piece of my hair wrapped really tightly around 2 of her toes - they were red and swollen and the hair was soooo tight it had cut through. Fortunately all is ok now, but apparently it is quite common. No wonder she was grumpy! Ok now off to vacuum everywhere in sight................
How scary for you! I am worried about my princess eating mine, I dont want her to get a big fur ball in her belly! I would never have thought about it wrapping around fingers and toes like that! Thanks for the heads up!
You're exactly right, I have seen this happen a number of times on my ward, and sometimes the hair gets so tight they have to give the child a general anaesthetic to remove it all.
Just make sure you check toes and fingers at every bath!
Yep we check at every bath because Matilda loves to find hair and play with it. I have had to help amputate toes on birds & kittesn for the same reason, so I guess I'm always checking...
Wow, Soph! Thanks for the warning. I'll keep a close eye out from now on. Glad that Lucie is ok!
I have also heard a similar warning about socks. Sometimes they can have long bits of cotton loose on the inside at the toe area. Babies can also get those bits of cotton wrapped around their toes and cut off the circulation.
More than once I pulled out one of my long hairs from Angus' bum :shock: Later I got all my hair cut off short.
I'm glad her toeys are ok!
Thanks for letting us know, now it's one more thing to fret over!
thanks for this advice I might need to get my long hair cut off
with two bubbas (& willies) to watch - 40 fingers and toes, two bums - seriously now I have been :-k considering it
I don't want it accidently pulled and I yank it myself.
OMG how scary!
Shannon, I laughed when I read your post, I thought you were pulling our legs saying they cut the willy off !!!!!
I have long hair too and I had never realised that it could be so dangerous in that way. I'll be checking Sarah's fingers and toes a hundred times a day now, she loves playing with my hair.
I usually tie it back but it falls out at an alarming rate.
On the other note, I have found hair in her poo before! :shock:
I am always conscious of my hair going near her mouth while she is feeding after that.
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