Keep Bleeding, Keep, Keep Bleeding.
This is what my baby girl looked like after her one year doctors appointment.
She looks pretty beat up, huh?
She's not.
Well, okay... she did have four shots, one of which was the dreaded--and painful--MMR (have you had one recently? They HURT!) But that's not the point!
The point of this post is her hand.
You'd think my girl had lost a finger or something?
Nope. It's actually the result of a very dramatic blood sample.
The result of one tiny pinprick and one very mad little girl.
This is what happened after she tried to to eat four band-aids in ten minutes.
This is the consequence for Remewin getting blood all over me and the nurse and herself... and the chairs and the tables.
It was the craziest, bloodiest ten minutes since her birth! Every single band-aid that the nurse put on Remewin pulled off as soon as her back was turned.
Then when we'd try to wrangle her hand out of her mouth she'd scream and grab at me, thereby sharing her trauma with my neck and my face and my hair and my white skirt.
Finally, we grabbed her hand, some tape, and some gauze and just wrapped it all around her three middle fingers.... and wrapped and wrapped and wrapped.
Once we were confident she wasn't going to get the thing off we set about cleaning up the blood. Who knew a little prick could bleed so much!
The worst part of it was, that was all BEFORE she'd gotten her shots. I have some pretty insane stories pertaining to my kids and needles (like this one), but no one has ever started fighting me this early.
If only I could get my husband do take her in...
She looks pretty beat up, huh?
She's not.
Well, okay... she did have four shots, one of which was the dreaded--and painful--MMR (have you had one recently? They HURT!) But that's not the point!
The point of this post is her hand.
You'd think my girl had lost a finger or something?
Nope. It's actually the result of a very dramatic blood sample.
The result of one tiny pinprick and one very mad little girl.
This is what happened after she tried to to eat four band-aids in ten minutes.
This is the consequence for Remewin getting blood all over me and the nurse and herself... and the chairs and the tables.
It was the craziest, bloodiest ten minutes since her birth! Every single band-aid that the nurse put on Remewin pulled off as soon as her back was turned.
Then when we'd try to wrangle her hand out of her mouth she'd scream and grab at me, thereby sharing her trauma with my neck and my face and my hair and my white skirt.
Finally, we grabbed her hand, some tape, and some gauze and just wrapped it all around her three middle fingers.... and wrapped and wrapped and wrapped.
Once we were confident she wasn't going to get the thing off we set about cleaning up the blood. Who knew a little prick could bleed so much!
The worst part of it was, that was all BEFORE she'd gotten her shots. I have some pretty insane stories pertaining to my kids and needles (like this one), but no one has ever started fighting me this early.
If only I could get my husband do take her in...
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Happy Red day,
LOLA:)
PS Mine this time is HERE. Hope you can stop by!
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What a determined little girl you have! I had one of those and, wow, it did make Doctors appointments incredibly exhausting.
I hope you can get some help next time. If we were closer I'd totally go with you! I'm a good baby calmer downer!
Thanks for linking this to Alphabe-Thursdays summer school!
I really enjoyed this different stop!
A+
Blessings & aloha!
still making my way through Alphabe-Thursday RED posts :o)
That is also the reason why her mouth at the age of 15 had 13 cavities and finally the dentist told her, "Look this game you've been playing over the years is just not cutting it, you are growing up into a beautiful young woman, you are heading for dentures, do you realize that?" "You simply MUST put on your big girl panties, and suck it up, and let me work on your teeth." She did, but still cried like a baby. and several months later, banged and cut her head, and needed stitches and a tetnus shot, the way she carried on, was truly embarrassing.
If your daughter doesn't improve, you may have to make hubby some with you.
best of luck.
Susan
http://cannwin.blogspot.com/2009/10/warning-do-not-mix.html