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Title: | Parenting |
Notice: | Previous PARENTING version at MOIRA::PARENTING_V3 |
Moderator: | GEMEVN::FAIMAN Y |
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Created: | Thu Apr 09 1992 |
Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
Number of topics: | 1292 |
Total number of notes: | 34837 |
965.0. "Young Child's Vaginal Bleeding" by SAPPHO::DUBOIS (Bear takes over WDW in Pooh D'Etat!) Thu Jun 01 1995 12:41
The following is being posted for a former member of the PARENTING notesfile,
Monica (Fett) Barney. If you wish to contact the author by mail, please feel
free to do so. Her email address is included below. If you reply here, your
message will be forwarded to her with your name attached unless you request
otherwise.
Carol duBois, PARENTING Co-moderator
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From: US3RMC::"[email protected]" 31-MAY-1995 14:23:23.67
[...]
Our biggest concern right now is Eleanor.
Can you post the following in Parenting? I need advice, or even
hand holding.
Eleanor, who is approaching her first birthday next week gave us
a scare. We had brought her and Charlotte (now 3) home from our
regular caregiver, and when Alan went to give her a bath, he discovered
blood (2 quarter sized stains) in her diaper, around the vaginal area.
I brought her to the clinic around the corner immediately - she did not
seem to be in any great discomfort. The Doc examined her, and could not
discover any local trauma (the issue of assault was brought up, but I
have to discount that - my trust in our Caregiver in total - she's had
Charlotte in her care since she was 8 months. Never had any problems at
all). but there was still a little bleeding, which seemed to stop after she
poured a little water in the vaginal area.
We collected a urine sample for her the next morning (ask me sometime how
that is done!) and we took her to the Children's Hospital (CHEO) for a
complete abdominal ultrasound. This, and the swab the Dr. had collected
the previous day revealed nothing abnormal.
Monday, we were sent to a Pediatric Gynocologist (a new specialty to me)
who took only a brief look at the area and confirmed the previous
doctor's opinion that everything looked normal.
His decision was to have a complete examination (a la pap-smear) while
Eleanor was under a general.
Although I have since spoken to our family doctor who has great confidence
in this specialist (i.e. that he wouldn't order an unnecessary exam)
but I still have a whole lot of bells going off about this - It isn't
enough that I have had the great melodrama of looking for work for 5
months but now this has been surpassed by the greater stress of worry for
Eleanor.
Has anyone had an experience with anything similar?
Eleanor's Mom, Monica Barney - ex-DECcie......
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965.1 | False Mense? | NPSS::CREEGAN | | Fri Jun 02 1995 11:36 | 11 |
| My newborn daugther had blood in her diaper while
she was rooming in with me in the hospital (after
delivery). I was frantic. They called is false mense
and said it wasn't uncommon for newborns.
When my son was born he had "witches milk" dripping
from his nipples. Again I was told it was nothing
to be concerned with.
But your daughter is much older. How old can a
child be and get this "false mense" (menstration)?
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965.2 | | CLOUD9::WEIER | Patty, DTN 381-0877 | Fri Jun 02 1995 14:47 | 9 |
| Not having had a daughter, I'm not exactly sure, but the REASON I've
heard for the false menses is that the mother's hormones are passed on
to the daughter, so it's really "mom's" hormones that are causing the
menses in her daughter.
With that in mind, I'd suggest that older than a week would be cause
for some concern ??
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965.3 | | SCHOOL::SCHOOL::CARR | | Mon Jun 05 1995 13:54 | 11 |
| When my daughter went in for her last check up at 7 months the
pedi said she had some breast tissue (not just baby chub) around
her breasts. He also said don't be alarmed if she had some vaginal
bleeding. That it wasn't uncommon. I don't recall what he said
the cause for this might be, but he said it was normal. I suppose
I should have paid more attention to what he was describing, but at
the time I was too busy wondering how he could tell it was breast
tissue and not baby fat.
Denise
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965.4 | From Monica | SAPPHO::DUBOIS | Bear takes over WDW in Pooh D'Etat! | Mon Jun 12 1995 16:01 | 24 |
| From Monica:
We took our daughter to the Children's hospital. Everyone
was caring and concerned (we had to answer several questions
repeatedly about her health, etc) and then she happily went
into the arms of the doctor - we were told to wait in the
waiting area.
About 20 minutes later he came back - said it was all done -
it was quick once they got her to settle down (she's just
such a wiggler). So quick infact that they did not give her the
routine IV. The doctor said everything looks perfect and that
he took some samples - he will call with the results but
doesn't expect much in the way of anomalies.
She was in the arms of the nurse when we came back to see her
in recovery - she was up and about and ready to party. Not even
a sign of tenderness. (But she was HUNGRY!)
Thanks all for responding (yes, we did know about the
vaginal bleeding after birth - this is our second girl).
I think this must be put down to mystery - the specialist
mumbled something about small fissure - he wants to see us
in a few weeks for followup and discussion.......
- Monica
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