Well the events of today have been a nice distraction from what I have been worried about...
My DD had her first PE lesson today, and she had to take a spare Tshirt to change into afterwards.. Which doesn't sound bad, but she had a condition where she is missing the right pectoral muscles and has a skin tag running from her elbow to the middle of her chest, which restricts her arm movement. When she gets older she'll not gain a right breast but she will have ops to put it right. They say its Poland Syndrome although I've also been told it can't be as that particular syndrome always has some hand deformities, which she doesn't have. But it's the nearest thing.
She looks sort of lopsided, but most tshirts cover this... but I'm terrified about her being picked on because of her condition. Especially if she has to take her top off.
So today, I was trying to tell her to get changed in the loos, rather than in front of all the other girls, because it's rude to show your "lady bits"....blah blah blah, but she just says "it's alright there are no boys around, I can change in front of girls!"
In one way I am glad I have given her the confidence to feel happy in her body, but I also wanted to spare her the pain of dealing with people making fun of her or going....ewwww whats wrong with your chest.!!!
I can't stop her from doing PE because of it as the exercise is good physiotherapy for her, but I just wish I could do something to help her...
I think its just where you want to wrap them up in cotton wool and protect them from the world... But I've been worried about it all day and very weepy...Now I find out this baby might be a girl....and I've got myself all weepy over the fact that it may have the same condition (it's not so much a problem in boys as they don't need breasts etc) so....I'm just weepy...I wish she had a mobile phone so I could call her and see how it went.
Then I get the whole, she's not my little baby anymore, and I'm replacing her with another and I start crying too... What am I like
My DD had her first PE lesson today, and she had to take a spare Tshirt to change into afterwards.. Which doesn't sound bad, but she had a condition where she is missing the right pectoral muscles and has a skin tag running from her elbow to the middle of her chest, which restricts her arm movement. When she gets older she'll not gain a right breast but she will have ops to put it right. They say its Poland Syndrome although I've also been told it can't be as that particular syndrome always has some hand deformities, which she doesn't have. But it's the nearest thing.
She looks sort of lopsided, but most tshirts cover this... but I'm terrified about her being picked on because of her condition. Especially if she has to take her top off.
So today, I was trying to tell her to get changed in the loos, rather than in front of all the other girls, because it's rude to show your "lady bits"....blah blah blah, but she just says "it's alright there are no boys around, I can change in front of girls!"
In one way I am glad I have given her the confidence to feel happy in her body, but I also wanted to spare her the pain of dealing with people making fun of her or going....ewwww whats wrong with your chest.!!!
I can't stop her from doing PE because of it as the exercise is good physiotherapy for her, but I just wish I could do something to help her... I think its just where you want to wrap them up in cotton wool and protect them from the world... But I've been worried about it all day and very weepy...Now I find out this baby might be a girl....and I've got myself all weepy over the fact that it may have the same condition (it's not so much a problem in boys as they don't need breasts etc) so....I'm just weepy...I wish she had a mobile phone so I could call her and see how it went.
Then I get the whole, she's not my little baby anymore, and I'm replacing her with another and I start crying too... What am I like 
, sorry i just had to have a chuckle cause of what i said to you when you painted your room blue!
