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Originally Posted by kelleymac
If your pediatrician and/or daycare provider aren't familiar with them, it's a good idea to mention them when the child comes home as they can be easily mistaken for bruises.
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This is So true. I once took my Cambodian fs to eye doctor. As Dr is looking in baby's eyes, he starts asking me if baby had fallen off bed, table or down the stairs recently..had I dropped him? Then he tells nurse to take baby's clothes off and starts looking at his body asking me about the "bruises"..I didn't know what they were called, but I knew pedi had taken pictures at first visit because she TOLD me this would happen!
He called pedi & she assured him that marks were not bruises, but he said the baby's eye was bleeding & maybe these bruises were not the same ones.
I had to drive 30 minutes to pedi's office so she could check baby again, then drive another 40 minutes to big city children's hospital to have his eyes checked out by specialist. Turns out "bleeding" was actually Mongolian spot IN HIS EYE!
I cannot tell you the anquish I suffered due to this idiot telling me he was going to "turn me in for abuse". Maybe he was doing what he thought was right, but for gosh sake's, his practice was in the middle of huge Asian community!