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My daughters story

Scarlett started showing signs of bruising as soon as she started crawling. Bumps lined her forehead and were spread across her body unlike any 1 yr old I'd seen. Unfortunately due to my undiagnosed bleeding disorder at the time; I just summed it up to her having whatever I had.....which was a lot of unexplained bruises! Then unfortunately social services got called and we decided it was time to step into action.  Her pediatrician was one of the first people social services contacted, to which her doctor informed them of our concerns of her bruising the last few months and that we would continue looking into the problem. Social services dropped the case after talking to several people and doing a home visit to our already overly protected and padded home and concluded we were just a family with a bruising problem..... This obviously scared me into being proactive and finding out was wrong with us.  Due to my daughters young age, the doctors were originally waiting to do...