Baby scolded by boiling water. Please help.

I've just sat and read through this entire thread and I'm so sorry for everything you and your family are going through, and I'm sorry about your mothers flippant attitude :nope:

I hope your LOs recovery is as speedy and pain free as it can be :hugs:
 
I'm really sorry about all that's happened.

I completley understand you're feeling upset that your daughter will have to live with a scar that affects her self confidence negatively, but I wonder if the fact that because she's so young, you can really work on telling her how beautiful her scars are and how unique she is. If she grows up thinking that she's special and beautiful because of positive reinforcement by you guys, hopefully that'll have a lasting impact on the way she feels about herself?
I'm also a physio and used to work on burns and plastics intensive care unit, I know a lot of the outpatients we had who had some awful burns could buy cosmetics which worked wonders for their skin if they had a special occasion coming up that they wanted to cover.

I'm in no way trying to make you feel your daughters injury is smaller than it is, but hopefully your attitude towards it as she grows will show her she is actually very beautiful just the way she is x
 
Yes I'll naturally be positive and tell her she's beautiful-she is! It's a mother's innate role to reinforce postive thinking and self-confidence but it's also only natural that that may not always be enough.

So are you able to answer my question pp? About the size of the graft being smaller as she grows due to the graft itself not growing but the surrounding skin stretching to accommodate it-is that right?
 
Im so sorry about lo...hoping for a speedy recovery...
 
Out of surgery and now hoping to go home soon for lots of cuddles. Hopefully the graft adheres and this is finally over for the worst part. The Dr even said the graft is a bit smaller than they initially envisaged :-)

DD keeps moving her legs up and down though and circling her ankles-I panicked as your ideally supposed to be on bed rest for the first few days to keep the graft in place but the staff said you can't stop her from moving. Luckily though they have mummified her leg plus it has stitches in so hopefully that will keep the graft in place despite her scissoring wriggly legs!
 
Your dealing with this really well. Just keep doing what your doing :):)
Really hoping it all goes smoothly and pain free, its amazing what they can do nowadays theres a good chance she might just have a little scar. Hope this part goes quickly
 
Glad it all went ok, you are both very strong and brave x
 
Just read through the thread. Hope your baby makes a quick recovery and is back to her bubbly self after surgery. Stay strong your doing fab!
 
Oh bless her, I'm so sorry that she needed the op. I'm glad to hear it all went well :) modern medicine is a wonderful thing, drs can fix things so well these days. Really hope the recovery period is all good and she's back to normal very soon xxx
 
I'm sorry for everything your baby and you have been through :hugs: I'm praying for a speedy recover for your LO :hugs::hugs::hugs:
 
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Well the graft has taken so great on that front. Now just waiting for it to form the scar/completely heal so I can start massage and pressure garments. She can now be herself and do baby things like stand up, go in jumperoo, roll (not that she is yet!) and the diahorrea has finally slowed down to once-twice a day which is such a relief for infection risks. The pic is in this post of the graft a week ago and today. It's the size of a satsuma so I'm hoping it won't grow too much as she does so it'll be smaller on her adult leg once older.
 
I was just wondering how your little one was getting on. Glad to see an update and that she's doing ok.
 
Great news that the graft has taken. Her leg looks so sore but so much better than it did to start with. :hugs:
 
I'm so sorry this happened to your little girl. While I dont have any experience with burns, I think some of what you are feeling is familiar to me. My lo was born with a cystic hygroma, it's a big cystic structure on her shoulder. It was a surprise at birth, and I was in shock. Why did this have to happen to my lo? Maybe I could have avoided it in some way if I had been more careful during the pregnancy. I felt that my body had let her down, and I promised her I would do everything in my power to help. Yet I felt helpless. I was scared for her future, I knew I wouldn't always be there to protect her from bullies. I couldn't take this from her and put it onto me...how I wish I could! I have never prayed so intensely, been so scared, hoped so much. My lo has gone under ga to have sclerotherapy to try to shrink it, she will probably need a few more. I know the uncertainty and not knowing what the future holds is so hard. It's a constant worry that never leaves us, but have faith that everything will work out in the end. Babies heal fantastically well, and medicine is always advancing. I am sure both our daughters will be happy, healthy, and beautiful no matter what. Big hugs.

I'll try to post a picture of Sienna, I'm on my phone so I ddont know if I'll manage.
 

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