So as I said Theo was born with Polydactyly, he has a bit of an extra thumb, a skin tag hanging off his real thumb. It has no bone and it will be easy to remove because it's just hanging off by a small piece of skin.

We met with the plastic surgeon two days ago, and he says he wants to remove it before Theo is 3 months old because then he moves around less.

He also wants to do it under local anasthetic. He said if he waits until later, around 10 months like we were told initially, that it would have to be under general anasthesia.

I don't like the idea of general anasthesia on a baby, but I'm also iffy about local anasthesia.

Local does not work for me. I've had it tried 3 times, once for a biopsy, once for a tooth extraction and after my childbirth with Theo for the stitches. It did not work any of the times. For my tooth extraction they actually tried like 12 needles in total, and NONE of them took at all. I could still feel everything. I ended up getting it pulled anyways because I was already there and already had it partially done, but for the rest I had to be scheduled for general.

I'm just iffy, because how do I know if Theo can take local either?

With myself I can tell it hasn't worked and can choose whether or not to proceed with it or to reschedule for general. With Theo he's too young to know if it has taken with him, I mean he can't TELL me, and the idea of giving him a needle, having it not work, and then having him go through surgery feeling it all..

But I don't know. Does anyone know if things like local anasthetic is a hereditary thing? If not I'm worrying for nothing. Is general anasthetic okay for babies? I'd be worried he wouldn't wake up.

What would you guys do?