Odd coincidence about ears...

[cleantowels]

A group of us were talking about our DC's births (as you do when you are having a night out trying to get away from it all ) and someone said that a nurse(?) (not the midwife) had mentioned that their baby was perfect except for "skin tags" on the ears that needed snipping off. They said this within half an hour of the birth and scared the mum but when she looked, the ears were just fine, just like DHs.

Now, different hospital, but this exact same thing happened to me and I said so, but not just me... FIVE of the women there had had a similar experience. All the ears were fine. All were scared unnecessarily.

WTF?

Two of them were in the same hospital. All of us are in the same city.

Did this happen to you? Is there a mad nurse out there going around scaring new mothers?!

[cleantowels]

Oh, well just us then!

[iamme21]

This happened to me 21 years ago. DS has the same ears as me and my dad!

[WheresTheHooferDoofer]

I didn't have this happen to me, but if you are all in the same city it could well be the same person going around.

Could be an agency nurse, accounting for the different hospitals.

[cleantowels]

WheresTheHooferDoofer Yes, this was brought up. Think of the damage one bitter person could do if this was the case.

[Lj8893]

That's weird! Why did you all see a nurse anyway?

[cleantowels]

Lj8893 Just one of the nurses that come in and out checking after the birth. For me she was lifting DS over to me to BF because I'd had a CS and wasn't to lift him out of his crib myself for first few days. As she handed him over she told me.

[Lj8893]

I've never heard of nurses working on a maternity ward in the Uk!

[Marcine]

Probably a health care assistant rather than a nurse.

[Lj8893]

Ah yes that would make more sense!

Very odd though, I would assume it is the same HCA who is agency or works bank shifts in other hospitals.

[cleantowels]

Ah right, wasn't sure whether it was a nurse.

[Chwaraeteg]

They have both nurses and midwives on some of the post natal wards in St Michaels, bristol.

[cleantowels]

This is London. All women work at the same place but come from all over.

[Lj8893]

I guess it makes financial sense, paying a nurse less to do a midwives job. Just another thing taken away from the midwifery profession. Anyway I'm derailing the thread, I apologise!

[cleantowels]

To clarify, I meant this is London and the women I was out with, who were discussing this, are all from work but live all over the city.

[Lules]

I’m sure I had nurses in London. Didn’t do anything with me but checked the baby, gave him drugs etc. None ever commented on his ears though!

[Lj8893]

lules if your baby needed extra care (which if he needed drugs it sounds like he did) then he would have had neonatal/paediatric nurses yes.

[GimbleInTheWabe]

Why did she mean by 'skin tags' OP? The ear lobes? Or actual little skin tags that you get sometimes? Bizarre either way!
DS was born at Kings last year and there was no weird skin tag nurse so she either missed me or isn't hanging around anymore!

[cleantowels]

St. Mary's for me Gimble.

With us she was pointing at the Tragus (just looked it up!) Not everyone has a pronounced one and DS and DH's aren't any bigger than average. DS had no skintags at all.