Blue Legs

Joy has just woken from a nap with blue-ish coloured legs from the knee down plus a couple of red patches (that look like heat rash)...Is it because she is cold or is it a circulation thing or something else?

Seems to be normal. She's smiling etc and playing.

Yeah, they were pretty normal looking by the time she went back to sleep...so maybe just a circulation thing.

Definately i second what Teresa said.   My nephew used to be like that (reallly bad and never went away though), he had alot of other problems that signalled it too but he had a bad heart prob that they only finally found when he was 7mths old and near heart failure.

Paris used to be a bit of a blue baby sometimes and i always thought it was just circulation as it's well known our family has bad circulation probs, anyway long story short, they finally found a heart murmur at 15mths, we spent forever trying to get her refered and just around her 3rd birthday we found out that she has a heart valve problem.

I also remember not too long ago another lady posting the same thing and she had her girl checked and they found a heart murmur or something similar

Anyway, It may not be all doom and gloom but better to go and find out, otherwise it will just eat at you anyway til you know for sure.

Edited by mum2paris

That probably is just the cold when they are mottly, it's if they are nicely blue, up to the knees or elbows etc then i would worry. eg, we used to have fights over who was going to go check on paris when she was a baby cos when she was in a deep sleep she was almost bluey white in colour and she breathes really shallowly..   

Paeds checks should pick things up.
In saying that, it was only by chance that one doctor picked up paris's murmur around 15mths when we were told it was still probably nothing. On and off for the next year different docs would hear it and when i asked to check at the next visit nothing was picked up. It wasn't till she was nearly 3 and a different doc picked it up that i said well, we've had this for nearly a year and a half, can we do something about it please? and chest xrays, ecg's and echocardiograms later, we got our diagnosis.

It doesn't sound too worrying from what you're saying. I have a brother who was a blue baby, he was blue all over but the other lady on here (nuttymama or nutty_mama) her daughter just had blue hands... anyway I digress.... my brother's heart murmur was picked up at his 6 week check.