To wonder why a baby might have blood round their nose?

[sammyjammy]

I am just curious as to why a baby, no older than a year old, might have blood around their nose.

Could it be a medical condition?

I'm asking as I was in the supermarket yesterday and as I was walking through the isle, I saw a baby sat up in the pram with blood all around their nose. Some of it looked dried and some still bright red. The baby looked at me and just made a small whimpering noise.

I was very shocked and looked at who I assumed was the babies mother and she just glared at me. Maybe I had a shocked expression on my face, I don't know. But then I just walked away.

I felt a bit intimidated by the mother for some reason, so didn't want to mention her child was bleeding as if it was something medical I didn't want to come across rude.

Has anyone known of any medical condition from which a baby can have a bleeding nose?

I know she could have fallen or poked her nose etc but something just didn't seem right about it all.

(Until we got home, that is, not til she graduated high school.)

DDs nose bleeds whenever she's got a cough. The force of coughing bursts the blood vessels.

The baby looked at me and just made a small whimpering noise

Good chance this was because you looked at them OP. That's around the age most children get wary of strangers. DD occasionally used to scream at anyone who dared to make eye contact or spoke to her.

Ok so probably a nose bleed.

I do have small children of my own and never experienced this. Which is why I came on here to ask for advice.

Ask advice = be nosey

You don’t need advice, it wasn’t your child.

My 19 month old spends a good part of each day with her finger up her nose. Unsurprisingly she has given herself at least a couple of nosebleeds. I’d assume the baby was a fellow nose picker if I’d seen that.

@kitsandkids mine has started this.... have you found a way to discourage it?

imalittleelf good luck with that my DD(8) still enjoys a covert rummage and snack

At one they will be probably be learning to walk so they could have easily fallen over bumping their nose.

Most abusers are smart enough to hide signs of abuse. They hit so the bruises aren’t visible under clothes. It’s unlikely that an abuser would take a visibly bleeding baby out in public.

Cold season = heaters everywhere/ dry air/ changing from cold to hot/ some people more prone/ a cold?

Why would the blood be left on the babies face? Surely if your baby was having a nosebleed you would notice and clean them up. At least the area around the nose.

Or maybe you care more about your baby complaining it hurst / annoys to be wiped all the time than what strangers think

Also, if you have a nose bleed and wipe the dried blood too soon you can get another

What advice were you searching for OP?
Advice on what?

Both my children and I have been susceptible to nosebleeds all our lives - trigggered by a must anything- too hot, too cold, altitude, fast lifts, rubbed it too hard. DS playing cricket terrifies me!

So I’d think ‘nosebleed” and move on.

Before I became a mum I didnt realise this.
But we are living in a society where anything we do is criticised

People are never ending moaning about "helicopter parents" then raising alarms for a nose bleed.

WTF are we meant to do? Please tell
Me because I have decided to do what I want, since nothing will ever be right to others

@BikeRunSki sometimes even downwArd dog or picking up lego makes mine bleed

It’s ok to be concerned and ask questions.... we’re hardwired to see blood and see danger. My child has never had a nose bleed and if I had seen blood on her face as a baby I would have been alarmed so it’s perfectly reasonable for a stranger to be alarmed. Generally I would suggest if you’re concerned in this situation to look at the behaviour of the adult to see if it is what you would anticipate under the circumstances. I’m not sure if the lady ( we don’t know it’s the mother) had seen the blood or not which I thinks makes a difference. If she had I would be expecting her to be looking in her bag etc for tissues , wipes etc. Otherwise I would expect her to be having a little chat or engaging with the baby in some way. That type of behaviour would help reassure me that it was nothing untoward ( no guarantees obviously). Otherwise OP it’s tricky isn’t it? You don’t want to think you saw something bad and didn’t do something.... I get it.

Two new posters shocked by incidents in supermarkets this morning. It must be the weekend for it.

@Fraying myabe online shopping this week

If you suspect abuse every time you see a child with a nosebleed then you aren't going to have much time to think about your own business. Children get nosebleeds, I dread to think what you'd have done if you'd seen a child with a nose bleed that lasted half an hour - it looked as if there had been pints and pints of blood shed.

plane I was just about to start an online order. I can't possibly risk seeing a child or hearing a parent ...

I absolutely detest posts like this.

Poster making random judgements about complete strangers in shops, being 'concerned' about children.

Doing nothing, then coming on mumsnet to ask a load of anonymous people what might have been wrong.

I'm sorry but how the hell do we know? There could be hundreds of reasons why the baby had blood on its face.

What you're suggesting is that the mother had hurt the child. Well if you really think that there's no good coming on here telling us expecting everyone to say "oh yeah hun it sounds really bad babe".

What you're suggesting is that the mother had hurt the child. Well if you really think that there's no good coming on here telling us expecting everyone to say "oh yeah hun it sounds really bad babe".
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DS sometimes has a little blood around his nose. He gets nosebleeds when the air is stuffy or from too much nose blowing. But if I keep wiping it it starts up again.

I was exactly the same age at his age, I'd have nosebleeds all the time at nursery - apparently age 2-3 is the most common age for nosebleeds but his started younger around 1 and a half.

ffs My son had a nose bleed at some point in the night, he woke up covered in blood. Although I thought I cleaned his face , when we got out he had some dried blood around his chin that I must have missed. It happens! Get a life and stop judging ridiclous things!

Once when I was picking up my daughter from kindergarten, she fell over and banged her head on the ground. Instantly a bump the size of an egg appeared on her forehead. It looked awful, but we were on our way home (5 mins) and I couldn't instantly cool it, so I pulled her sun hat a bit lower and pushed her along in the buggy. Halfway home an old lady stopped and started cooing over her, then exclaimed "Oh dear! Your sun hat is all lopsided!" and pulled it straight. The look on her face when she saw the massive bump. Feeling that attempts to explain would just sound even more suspicious than it already looked I just gave her a big smile and left her standing there in horror.

(The bump went away and she was fine!)