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Bleeding In Diaper

by Nancy
(san diego, ca)

My daughter in law just called and her daughter 6 1/2 months old had some blood from her vagina after she changed her diaper.

Is this normal or what could the cause be? She is quite upset right now.

Baby Help Line:

Possible Reasons For Blood In Baby's Diaper

I'm not surprised your daughter in law is concerned, she could be imagining all sorts of things. It can sometimes be difficult to know the source of the blood when found in the diaper.

Here are some reasons why a baby may have a bit of blood in the diaper:

Babies can often have a tiny amount of blood in their poo, or the anus can crack if they are a bit constipated.

Newborn babies do sometimes have a little bit of vaginal bleeding due to all the hormone changes, but I would expect that to have settled down by now.

Blood in the urine can also happen due to infections mainly, and should always be reported to a doctor, who can find out what is causing the blood.

A little girl could also have a small wound somewhere from being naked and sitting down on something. How active is your grand-daughter? If she is crawling around and climbing over things, maybe she didn't have a nappy on and had a minor injury?

Sometimes there can be nappy rash that has bled a bit. It can be hard to see where it has come from, it may look like it was from the vagina, but babies kick around a lot and wriggle and it could have come from elsewhere.

I would get it checked just in case there is some infection or injury. The doctor will be the best person to diagnose anything in this case.

Good luck, you daughter in law is lucky to have such great support from you,

Wishing you well,

Annie Desantis

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Feb 08, 2009

blood from babies vagina
by: tracey

Nancy,

My eighteen month old has some blood and mucus coming from her vagina , it is very little how did your daughter inlaw amke out?

Jul 09, 2009

vagina
by: francine

my daughter diaper was changed this morning and had a blood in it when hurts she squats in a boo boo position and she cries. and has fluid coming out of her vagina what should i do

Jul 10, 2009

The Dr
by: Baby Help Line - Paula

Hi Francie,

I think you should take your daughter to the Dr, to make sure she doesn't have a UTI.

Wish you good luck,

Paula

Sep 05, 2011

9month old blooding from vagina
by: Beverly

My daughter is 9months, yesterday about 6pm i was trying to give her a bath, when i took her diaper off, i seen some blood. So i took her to the health centre, i was so concern. They got her all checked up, they even did a swab, so now were on our way to go see a docter, the nurses dont know whats the problem, they think its an infection or sexual abuse, but i dont think its the abuse..its really terrifying when they were coming to conclusions!

Jan 03, 2012

So scary
by: Anonymous

My two year old baby girl also we find blood in her diaper and took her to er after they take her urin sample they say it is not infection they almost conclude that it is abuse that scared me a lot because we know it is not abuse. We want her to get checked, not jump to conclusion.

After one day we took her to her regular dr. They did not take her urin or blood, they suggest to wait and see even though they show the same caractor they found ear infection that the er never found. Hope fully next time they are going to check everything and get better result for our baby girl's well being.

I wish they do better job in er than trying to blame or jump to conclude something not.

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