Manicure Gone Wrong...

It is the nightmare of every new parent.

Those thin scratchy finger nails.

And I did it.

I made the dreaded mistake.

I clipped just a teeny tiny bit too short.

{insert cringing here}

Annie didn't even know anything was wrong.

But boy did I feel like the worst person alive.

After several hours trying to get the bleeding to stop at home...

the doctor finally zapped it with a little chemical to clot the blood.

Hence the dramatic looking wrap on her hand.

{really, it makes it look 1 million times worse than it was}

The doctor had a good laugh at/with me.

"Did Mom get excited with the manicure?"

She asked Annie several times before she sent us out the door with this bandage.

To make the mom guilt worse -

I woke up the next morning to a little girl with a bright red, warm thumb.

The microscopic cut had become infected.

Not sure where it happened -

but it was definitely infected.

So back to the doctor we went.

Being the new, hysterical Mom that I am, I was all teary and felt horrible.

When the doctor told me she'd need to go on antibiotics I nearly lost it..

It is all so funny looking back now.

But at the time it was "very serious."

Ha.

I even asked if she would lose her thumb.

I am certain the doctor walked out and had a big laugh with the staff about that one.

I am officially "that" mom.

Poor Annie.

And you know what they say,

bad things come in threes.

After about 10 days the antibiotics were finally gone.

And then the terrible diaper/yeast rash set in.

The doctor had warned me this might happen.

It came on with a vengeance and poor Annie was not happy about it.

So, sink or swim I learned all about taking care of a nasty diaper rash.

I had it all wrong on day one.

Turns out - you can fail at something as simple as taking care of a diaper rash.

But by day three we have the diaper rash system all worked out and things were looking up.

Needless to say,

Annie's first manicure went poorly.

Two weeks later 

and I am just now reaching the end of the consequences of the manicure gone wrong.

Moral of the story -

don't trim.

Just file.

Oh, and new Moms are dramatic.

Thee end.