I’ll be honest here and confess to some naivete: I hadn’t expected any medical issues to come up at all for our son.
Once he was born and everything was fine, I presumed he’d be fine forever. Not sure where my common sense went, but it soon came back.
Our boy has had two little things that needed some attention:
Tongue-tie
As I mentioned in an earlier post, our son had a tongue-tie. This stopped him from being able to extend his tongue all the way and limited his ability to feed properly. It meant that his mother’s body never knew the full amount of breast milk to produce and so we had to top him up with bottles from the beginning. It’s turned out a blessing in disguide though, as he’s used to both bottles and breast milk, so feeding isn’t the obstacle it is for some.
To rectify the tongue-tie, he had a small snip made to the skin flap joining the tongue and floor of his mouth. It only bled a drop and healed quickly and cleanly. To look at him now, you’d never know he had it done and his tongue is fine!
Belly-button
As the lad’s belly-button healed, it became clear that a little bit of it was poking out further than it should.
Basically, he had a slightly long ‘outtie’ that should have healed a bit more cleanly. The doctor said fixing it was simple and just involved burning the end off with a hot ‘rod’ of sorts. I was a bit worried he’d be burned or have a tough little nub on his belly, but everything so far has gone smoothly, so I maintained the faith and we had it done.
It burnt away the excess dead skin lump and left a bit of a brown mark, but that faded away over a few days and he looks fine now. Phew!
I hadn’t factored in the medical hurdles that are a part of growing up, for some reason. These two (small) things are cleared up now and all went well. Touch wood, it’s the only things that will happen in Leo’s lifetime and he’ll grow up safe and sound!
But if not, I know now that things can be fixed easily enough and that the real issue is whether I can learn to accept my kids will probably hurt themselves as they grow up. I’m such a sap, I think I need to toughen up!
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