I have just returned from the hospital after the most distressing 24 hours. It all started innocently when I took my dd (aged 5 months old) to see the dr as she was crying unusually a lot and I thought her arm was hurting her (when I changed her clothes and massage her, she cried when I reached that arm). The doctor took one look and noted a 'bruise' on the arm. He then wrote a referral letter for the hospital where he implied that it may be non-accidental injury (ie. abuse). The doctors and consultant(!) in the hospital implied again that we may be abusing her. What a shock it was for dh and I! We would never dream of hurting our little girl. I mentioned that it could be a mongolian blue spot as she has quite a few all over. The consultant said that they cannot tell as they did not know it could appear on the arms and shoulders!! They even asked my permission to photograph it as if it is a mongolian blue spot, it would be useful for training purposes, being so rare there! Is this true? When I did a hasty check on the internet, mongolian blue spots have been noted on arms and shoulders. So why didn't the doctors and consultant know that?
They ran some tests and x-rays on dd and the results came back as normal. So we were allowed home. This incident has really distressed dh and I. In the first place, if the spots were recorded in her red book when she was first born, none of this would have occured. Apparently the health visitor was supposed to have done that. I remember clearly the health visitor mentioning it to me 'oh, she has these spots. totally normal', but obviously it was not recorded anywhere.
So upset and distressed...