rachelh
01-24-2012, 08:15 PM
Need some quick advice.
When I got home from work today, sitter told me that when they were out playing at a friend's house today, friend's 1 1/2 year old was biting and bit DD. She really just mentioned it in passing - basically just saying he was making trouble. Well after sitter went home, I looked at DDs stomach and saw some marks and the skin is just barely broken. It does not look like a bite mark but is definetely possible because there are two small slightly redder areas very close to each other that can be the front teeth marks. Under that theres a small little line that looks like a scrape so I am really not sure the marks are actually from the bite. I really have no idea what it is - if I just saw it without mention of the bite I would not think twice about it. I called sitter to find out exactly what happened and she said when DD told her she was bitten, she showed her that it was more on her side and not on her stomach and sitter did not lift her shirt and actually look at it.:6: She also said DD was not crying. FWIW, DD insists that the area where she has marks is in fact where she was bitten.
Does this require a call/visit to the pediatrician? I love our pediatrician but he has really horrible office hours and I also feel like I kind of live there.
When I got home from work today, sitter told me that when they were out playing at a friend's house today, friend's 1 1/2 year old was biting and bit DD. She really just mentioned it in passing - basically just saying he was making trouble. Well after sitter went home, I looked at DDs stomach and saw some marks and the skin is just barely broken. It does not look like a bite mark but is definetely possible because there are two small slightly redder areas very close to each other that can be the front teeth marks. Under that theres a small little line that looks like a scrape so I am really not sure the marks are actually from the bite. I really have no idea what it is - if I just saw it without mention of the bite I would not think twice about it. I called sitter to find out exactly what happened and she said when DD told her she was bitten, she showed her that it was more on her side and not on her stomach and sitter did not lift her shirt and actually look at it.:6: She also said DD was not crying. FWIW, DD insists that the area where she has marks is in fact where she was bitten.
Does this require a call/visit to the pediatrician? I love our pediatrician but he has really horrible office hours and I also feel like I kind of live there.