The baby is almost a year old and that little bundle of joy still cries most of the night. He has been to the doctor's office, at least once every two weeks for the last several months. The doctor says, "It appears you have a healthy baby. But, but, but, maybe the baby needs ear tubes." Of course, almost every parent eagerly agrees. I mean, anything to get the baby to sleep at night, as well as the parents.
The tubes have been put in and still the baby does not sleep well on most nights.
Are tubes in the ears necessary? I really do not know.
Not one person I know, who is my age, has ever had ear tubes. But this was the 1950's and 1960's. However, not one of my children had "ear tubes".
When did the "tympanostomy" make it's debut? And does it really help? I am not sure. It did help one of my grandchildren, or so it appears. But, the other still cries all night.
Those "ear tubes", are they ALL really necessary? I am still not convinced.
Of course, I remind myself that in the 1950's, 1960's and early 1970's, there were hardly any daycare facilities. These facilities, so common in the 1980's through this day, may be spreading these ear infections.
Yet, this evening, while attempting to gather more information on this "tympanostomy" procedure, I came across this little gem. More than 500,000 children undergo this procedure. In the end, long term studies have called the necessity of routine ear tube surgery into question. I am still not certain what my opinion is just yet.
Roll back to 1962. My grandmother, on why cousin "t-putt, putt" was still crying. "Well he is a digger. I saw him digging in the toilet and his diaper and he put his fingers in his mouth. His stomach is upset. That's why he cries all night."
Of course,no medical research has come out to support Maw Maw Tib's theory, but there is no medical research to disprove it.
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