u/Prior-Phase8898

My son is 2 months, almost 3, and in the past month he has had a short fall after throwing himself back from my husband's arms. We rushed him to his pediatrician, he was fine. Then just last week he was sleeping next to me while I was watching TV and I had to get up to go to the restroom. I went to move the blanket that was tucked under him so I could put him in his bassinet and it was stuck. I gave it a tug and he lifted slightly and landed on his foot in the bed.

We took him to his pediatrician first thing in the morning and the pediatrician was acting weird towards us. They required another pediatrician to look at him and said that we should go to the ER to do a skeletal survey "just to make sure he's alright", he was fine.

We may have been overly cautious being first time parents. A friend that is an x ray tech said the only times he's ever done skeletal surveys are when they expect child abuse. Then another friend says it sounds like they expected us of abuse since he's been seen twice in a month. Did us being overly cautious, nervous first time parents make them think we're abusing our baby? The last thing I want is for him to need to be seen but we're too afraid to go because they'll think we're hurting him.

TL:DR

Have we been flagged by CPS for being cautious and inexperienced first time parents?

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u/Prior-Phase8898 — 9 days ago
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My son is 2 months, almost 3, and in the past month he has had a short fall after throwing himself back from my husband's arms. We rushed him to his pediatrician, he was fine. Then just last week he was sleeping next to me while I was watching TV and I had to get up to go to the restroom. I went to move the blanket that was tucked under him so I could put him in his bassinet and it was stuck. I gave it a tug and he lifted slightly and landed on his foot in the bed.

We took him to his pediatrician first thing in the morning and the pediatrician was acting weird towards us. They required another pediatrician to look at him and said that we should go to the ER to do a skeletal survey "just to make sure he's alright", he was fine.

We may have been overly cautious being first time parents. A friend that is an x ray tech said the only times he's ever done skeletal surveys are when they expect child abuse. Then another friend says it sounds like they expected us of abuse since he's been seen twice in a month. Did us being overly cautious, nervous first time parents make them think we're abusing our baby? The last thing I want is for him to need to be seen but we're too afraid to go because they'll think we're hurting him.

TL:DR

Have we been flagged by CPS for being cautious and inexperienced first time parents?

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u/Prior-Phase8898 — 9 days ago