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Anyone had to put ear tubes in before 6 months?

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DD has had 6 ear infections (some of them double infections) in her 5.5 month life. She's pretty much been on antibiotics continually since she was 6 weeks old. The most recent one was diagnosed on Friday, and it came with an ENT referral for Thursday.

The pedi said he wouldn't be surprised if DD had tubes by the end of the month. Has anyone put ear tubes in their baby before 6 months old? How was it? Did they help? I'm open to any wisdom/opinions you ladies have.

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IVF # 1 ~ Antagonist ~ ER 1/27/11~ ET 1/30/11 ~ + HPT 7dp3dt 
DD born med-free on 10/24/11 
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IVF # 2 ~Antagonist ~ ER 6/5/13 ~ ET 6/10/13 ~ + HPT 4dp5dt 
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Re: Anyone had to put ear tubes in before 6 months?

  • beebe929beebe929 member

    Both my girls had them at 7 months, it would have been earlier but the surgery schedule backed it up a bit.  Best decision ever for both.

    Good luck!

     

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  • samk213samk213 member
    DS was exactly 6 months when he had his tubes done.  What a difference it made for the better!  We had the same issues as you, ear infections, antibiotics, reactions to antibiotics, diarhea and diaper rash due to antibiotics, etc.  I think when he was on his 4th ear infection is when we got the referral the ENT.  The surgery was really fast.  Literally, we kissed him bye back in pre-op and went out to the waiting room and I immediately went to make him a bottle for when he came out and minutes after I was done with that that the Dr. came out telling us he was done and everything went well and we could go back and be with him.  The hardest part was him coming out of anesthesia, he cried hard for about 10 minutes, then settled down and took his bottle.  Mainly, he was tired the rest of the day and slept, some drainage which they gave us drops for, but he was fine the next day.  Since the tubes, everything has been great, normal drainage which is the purpose of the tubes anyway and then we use drops for it.  GL!
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  • Germanwife2bGermanwife2b member

    Patrick had them at 3 months old because he was failing his hearing tests (he failed 5-6 of them) and they wanted to put the tubes in to drain any possible fluid that was causing the hearing loss.  He had his last breastfeed at 3am, we had to be at the hospital at 6am, surgery was around 7-8 am and they were in and out in about 15-20 minutes.  Patrick was the smallest patient that this doctor had done (which I didn't know until afterwards) but he did really well.  Because he was so small though, the anesthesiologist would not let me go into the OR when they sedated him.  I was not happy about  that (especially being a nurse) but all worked out well and I was able to breastfeed him right there in the recovery room.  He immediately passed hearing tests after that surgery.

    Good luck.  I know that your case is not like mine at all, but I still thought I would share with you.

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  • CallMeAlCallMeAl member
    Thank you for the reassurance, ladies. I appreciate the responses!!
    DX: Severe MFI 
    IVF # 1 ~ Antagonist ~ ER 1/27/11~ ET 1/30/11 ~ + HPT 7dp3dt 
    DD born med-free on 10/24/11 
    Lilypie - (lZjk)
    IVF # 2 ~Antagonist ~ ER 6/5/13 ~ ET 6/10/13 ~ + HPT 4dp5dt 
    Lilypie - (OUlo)

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  • dana316dana316 member

    We just had Parker's done about 3 weeks ago.  He had just turned 6 months.

    He did great.  There was absolutely nothing to it, and he's done great since then.  I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

     

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  • UsedToBeGoldieUsedToBeGoldie member

    i WISH I got them in Grayson at that age.  I kept thinking the ear infections would stop... and they didn't - finally at 18mo we realized he had zero words - and wasn't hearing us well.... so he got tubes --- hasn't had an EI since (knock on wood) and his speech has improved a ton (he goes to therapy for it).

    it's the biggest regret i have as a parent- waiting so long - b/c it hurt his speech development... all b/c i was nervous about him having surgery.

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    i WISH I got them in Grayson at that age.  I kept thinking the ear infections would stop... and they didn't - finally at 18mo we realized he had zero words - and wasn't hearing us well.... so he got tubes --- hasn't had an EI since (knock on wood) and his speech has improved a ton (he goes to therapy for it).

    it's the biggest regret i have as a parent- waiting so long - b/c it hurt his speech development... all b/c i was nervous about him having surgery.

    Thanks for sharing this. It's definitely one of my fears that her speech will be affected if we don't get the situation addressed quickly. And I hope that you don't beat yourself up about it too much.... I'm sure you did what you thought was best at the time!

    DX: Severe MFI 
    IVF # 1 ~ Antagonist ~ ER 1/27/11~ ET 1/30/11 ~ + HPT 7dp3dt 
    DD born med-free on 10/24/11 
    Lilypie - (lZjk)
    IVF # 2 ~Antagonist ~ ER 6/5/13 ~ ET 6/10/13 ~ + HPT 4dp5dt 
    Lilypie - (OUlo)

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