If a baby falls onto something hard enough to cause a bruise, I would think the baby would cry...?!? If something happened during the nanny's watch, she should know. Definitely invest in some nanny cams if you haven't already and check up on her. You can't be too careful / paranoid when it comes to your baby's safety.

Maybe the nanny grabbed the baby and left a bruise.

Just check the baby every evening. If another mystery bruise appears get a nannycam (hidden in a clock or bear)
Then you will have proof of whatever happened.

If you have an older child then you are likely familiar with the fact that babies and toddlers can play rough and end up with mystery bruises. If this is triggering your spidey sense, I would think about why. How long has nanny been with you? Do you have concerns about her judgement? Her honesty?

My charges are triplets. The first time one of them bit the other I didn't realize it had happened until bath time. They were playing with eachother kind of wrestling around and the one who got bitten started crying. I picked her right up and she stopped, but I thought she had bumped her head or something.

Then at bathtime I noticed she had a clear bite mark on her arm and it all made sense.

Congrats, your baby got his first bruise. It's the first of many, many more to come. And I assure you, you won't know where every single one came from. No one can have eyes on your child 24/7, and accidents can happen without anyone seeing. If you stress this much over every bruise your children get, your going to be living a very stressful life!

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. On further inspection and discussion with DH we think our older child may have bitten him. Older DC is usually only loving towards younger brother but anything could have happened. If we're right, it still seems like nanny should have known or been watching them more closely.

Or, maybe you should teach your older brat to stop biting younger kid!

Yes,I agree with you.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. On further inspection and discussion with DH we think our older child may have bitten him. Older DC is usually only loving towards younger brother but anything could have happened. If we're right, it still seems like nanny should have known or been watching them more closely.

Or, maybe you should teach your older brat to stop biting younger kid!

Anonymous wrote:OP here. On further inspection and discussion with DH we think our older child may have bitten him. Older DC is usually only loving towards younger brother but anything could have happened. If we're right, it still seems like nanny should have known or been watching them more closely.

Older kid bites younger kid and it is the nanny's fault? Wouldn't the younger kid have screamed if his brother bit him and wouldn't the nanny have checked to see what the problem was? You are crazy. It probably happened when you were in charge, if you ever are.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. On further inspection and discussion with DH we think our older child may have bitten him. Older DC is usually only loving towards younger brother but anything could have happened. If we're right, it still seems like nanny should have known or been watching them more closely.

Right, because nannies are robots who never use the bathroom or step away to make a bottle or food, or answer your text or anything else. And mom ALWAYS helicopter over their kids and never ever take their eyes off the kids for a second, not even to use the bathroom, get pjs ready, make dinner, eat dinner, look at the mail or anything else. You kid got a bruise. Relax. There's a lot more where that one came from. Get some prozac if you need to, but calm the heck down.

OP here. On further inspection and discussion with DH we think our older child may have bitten him. Older DC is usually only loving towards younger brother but anything could have happened. If we're right, it still seems like nanny should have known or been watching them more closely.

I'd get a new nanny

I'd be concerned that she claims not to have noticed them if they were obviously red marks and bruises. Time for cams.

I don't know what it could be. It's two pretty dark bruises with a reddish/purple circle around them. Maybe a diameter of 1.5 inches

He's not really mobile. I guess he could have rolled onto a toy...

What do you think they are? Do you think they are finger marks?

Is he mobile at all?

I was just changing my 6 month old for bed and noticed some bruises and red marks on his arm. They definitely weren't there last night. I texted nanny who said she didn't notice them. I'm pretty upset and not sure what to do / think. What would you do?