First trip to the ER! AHHHH!

It happened one lovely Friday night. December 7th to be exact.

We were just hanging out snuggling before bed. Emily had spit up everywhere, which is a common occurrence here. When I changed her I only put on a onsie. I don't know why but I am glad that I did. While sitting around snuggling I started playing with her feet. I love baby feet. They are so cute and it is so fun to give them kisses.

Then I noticed it!

A hair tourniquet. Not just one but two. On two different toes. She was not upset so I was not hurting her yet. But I knew we needed to fix it right away.

Courtesy of wikipedia

Some of you are thinking. What the H is a hair tourniquet? I did not take any pictures of one on Emily because I was slightly distracted so here is the like to a wiki article about them. Here are pictures from the article. Basically it is when a thread or hair gets wrapped around a babies toe, finger and on boys even their testicles! It gets tighter and tighter until it cuts of circulation. If they are unable to get the hair or thread off they have to cut it by cutting skin and surgically removing it. If it is not caught in time the child can lose the appendage.

From wikipedia: after being surgically removed.

We caught Emily's really early and James went to work on getting them off. One fell right off but the other was more difficult. This resulted in horrible screaming and crying because as we were trying to get it off it was getting tighter. We called the pediatrician but just decided to get in the car and head to the ER.

Snuggling in between attempts to find the hair.

We were lucky in that there was no one in the ER. It was completely empty and the pediatrician called ahead for us. They all fell in love with Emily and she was doing much better now and giving everyone smiles.

They looked and looked and were unable to find the hair. So after several hours and lots of screaming, we were sent home and told if it gets worse go to Children's. They didn't want us to go back there because she would need a pediatric surgeon. It was a little disconcerting to be sent home not knowing if things were going to get better or not.

We were very hungry after all of that screaming.

The next morning. Only a little swelling :)

After a few hours of sleep we checked it and it was better so it must have fallen off. We think when it broke when James was working on it but he did not see it come off. Now even a month later you can still see a little line from where it was but I am sure it will go away at some point.