Upps, that wasn't his finger nail...

Today Josh scratched his face again, so I decided that I was going to trim his nails really well to help minimize all the scratches that he has been getting. Well, I was almost done...on the last nail...the thumb...and clip...I got the skin...a bug chunk...and poor poor Josh started crying. Oh no, i couldn't believe it, I had never done anything close to that before. This was the first time that I had ever drawn blood while trimming nails, and I felt SO bad. Of course it was the thumb that he loves to suck on. I got a tissue and tried to stop the bleeding. I was surprised how long it took for it to stop. I feed him a bottle while I put pressure on the thumb and then put on a band-aid (the best I could on his tiny finger) and then put a glove on his hand. I called his doctor to see what I should do to make sure that he doesn't get infected and she said to double band-aid it and put the glove on during the day, and then let it air dry at night. I sure hope that it gets better soon. It does seem like babies heal really quickly. He scratches himself all him time and those always seem to heal quickly, so I really hope and pray that this too, heals quickly. I think that I will have Tony do the trimming of the nails for a while, at least on baby Josh.