PSA: Hair Tourniquet?

Re: PSA: Hair Tourniquet?

• ElleMF728 member

  February 2016

  I've heard about this and have seen it first hand on my LO but I caught it very quickly. I always check his fingers, toes and his penis because the story I heard actually had a hair wrapped tightly around there. One of my DS2's nurses told me her niece had one down to the bone.
  
  I shed so much after I give birth and LO is always grabbing my hair that I'm constantly finding them in weird places. It really should be part of the standard baby crying checklist
   I don't think it's too uncommon.

  

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• momofsweetps member

  February 2016

  This is SO important to check. My little guy had a hair tight around one of his toes. Thankfully I got it off, but it did cut his toe a little bit. I check every time I change his clothes. So it wasn't there in the am but was there when I took his socks off to put on jammies. Oh my gosh I was flipping out. My #3 also had a hair around his penis before. That was terrifying too, and again thankfully we got it off. All these freak things, uggh.
  

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• rosalbap2 member

  February 2016

  Thank you for this information! My hair is constantly falling off and its everywhere around the house  I am going to have to start putting up when I am home. Now I will be more aware of this.

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• ForeverEverAfter member

  February 2016

  My hair falls off everywhere, and we cosleep, so I always check her fingers. But this actually happened to her toes inside a footed sleeper!! Must've had hair in it from laundry (it was fleece, probably stuck to it in the dryer). It cut her poor toes like paper cuts all around

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• babynum1rr member

  February 2016 edited February 2016

  @ElleMF728 I'm going to have to start checking lo regularly. Down to the bone?! Yikes! That's scary
  My hair was falling out in clumps so I went and shaved about 90% of my hair off because lo would grab my hair and she'd have a handful of it! Guess it was a blessing in disguise. I agree! It should be apart of the checklist! 
  
  @momofsweetps I would be flipping out too! Usually I can be calm, cool, and collected when it comes to emergencies but with DD it's totally different! 
  
  @rosalbap2 You're welcome! I thought maybe since I didn't know, maybe there were other moms that didn't know as well! Parenting should come with a manual
  
  @ForeverEverAfter oh my gosh! That's so nuts how it happened! Was this recent? How are her little toes now?
  
  Edited because spelling is hard in the middle of the night. 

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• ForeverEverAfter member

  February 2016

  It happened just before Christmas and they healed well, but the whole tip of those toes peeled, which looked pretty freaky at the time!

  

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• CraftyMommy14 member

  February 2016

  Thanks for the warning. I'm losing so much hair right now too.

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• LoveLee85 member

  February 2016

  My LO loves to put his hands in my long hair. Pony tail or bun doesn't stop him from finding it either. I always check his penis(mainly for diaper fussy stuff), hands and toes! I didn't actually realize thing was a thing though!!! Thank you for the information!!! 

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• babynum1rr member

  February 2016

  @ForeverEverAfter that's good they healed well! 
  
  @CraftyMommy14 and @LoveLee85 you're welcome!  I didn't know it was a thing either until I read this! I'm constantly checking DD fingers and toes now! 

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• SarahEmmons330 member

  February 2016

  My son had multiple hairs wrapped around his penis, they weren't tight but I probably noticed it quickly because I had be warned about this… I check at every diaper change and whenever he is losing his mind I always take off his diaper to check!

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