Mommy Tested. Doctor Approved.
When M was around one year old, I decided it was time to offer her peanut butter. Around that time, the LEAP study had just come out, recommending the introduction of peanuts before one year of age. It made sense to me that early exposure to peanuts would lessen the likelihood of allergies to peanuts, so I felt confident that M would do just fine with it. And it was my pediatric duty! What could possibly go wrong?
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A few months ago, I had an incident that happened where, really, all my medical knowledge went out the window, and I ruminated in my concerns as a worried parent. Maybe this happened because our newest addition to the family “B” is likely our last baby, and I am worried more about anything that might happen to him.
A few weeks after he turned one year old, I was changing his diaper and noticed a bulge in his left inguinal area. It seemed tender to touch, and I immediately called my husband to come look – I told him it looked like an inguinal hernia. It was soft, and B wasn’t overly fussy, so I put a new diaper on him and decided I would monitor it as the day went on. It was of course on a weekend, but I decided first thing Monday I would schedule an appointment with a urologist.
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