well... 2 month baby visit today = shots & vaccines
 

well taking the baby to get 2 month check up which means I gotta hold her while she gets stuck with about 5 needles.

i used to think I was tough until I had to do this, have been thinking about it all morning and counting the hours until the appointment. :(

ps regarding vaccines, I have kept myself from even googling anything related to them and going aliong with the plan as parents seem to be forced to do.

I just want my baby to be ok

ignorance is a bliss :) good luck

Yup worse thing ever. Then we had that even worse. My youngest daughter we had to get 5 shots redone because the equipment that they used to cool the vaccines with was off a few degrees. That just made me so pissed off too. :mad:

My kids fair better with their shots then I do when they get them.

man i cant imagine, i used to run my mouth about parental things before I had a kid, now that I have one, I see what you guys have been talking about. I jus want her safe and do what we must to facilitate that.

to be honest I volunteered to "hold her" on the first roun d of taking blood and needles, and I think that put me in position to be baby holder during all shots. But I dont mind, I dont like hearing her cry or getting stuck either, but mommy is even more emotional about it, so I will perform my duty, although I cant promise my heart wont be pounding out my chest and possibly a tear... i think its instinct stuff we have no control over. As soon as I hear her crying I want to protect her, and thats just how it is with males and offspring I guess.

blah, anxiety. better to deal with when talk about things.

God you have turned into such a pussy.

bumped by a viewless poster, oh my, the fans havent stopped! LOL

They forget about it in about 30 seconds. We had our little girl's ears pierced at 3 months and she cried more putting her shirt on that day than she did having a needle put through her ears.

They're a lot more resilient than we often think.

aye this is only second round for me, so its on my mind... thnks for the courageous words!

After she gets her shots, just have mom pop her on the boob.
Instant comfort!

That's what I always did. :)

aye there is nothing comparable to how she can go from screaming and crying arching her back, to eyes rolling back in her head and drifting off to sleep within seconds as boob is placed to her mouth LOL

I never saw that before... it is amazing. They get dopey like they are intoxicated and eyes roll back in their head. too funny! I hand her to mommy as soon as the "feed me" crying starts and it is instant comfort!

Boob drunk is what we call that.

It's especially hard the first time but you do get used to it. My little girl just had her 4 year old shots, and she didn't make a sound, not one "ouch" or anything... she just stared at the nurse like, "are we done yet lady?"

Daddy complains more than she does! :1orglaugh

When we had to do it with my baby at 2 months it was ok, a little of crying but not as much as i expected, the worst came at 1 year old, i never imagined how strong a little kid can be, i'm a really big guy and had troubles to keep him immobile.

Hope all went well!

My twin girls are 4 1/2, shots were hard for me then too. Looking back now, that was the easy part - but understand, when they hurt, you hurt.....

At 10 weeks old one my girls got a really high fever, they insisted on spinal tap to check for meningitis. My wife walks out because she's loosing it, takes my other daughter with her. Right before the shot, DR brings in all these waivers, on how they are not responsible if there is a problem with the spinal tap - talk about freaking out...:(

At 3 years olds, same daughter, had an infection in her leg (we suspect from spider bite) that has to be surgically removed before it becomes septic. She has to be put under - another day I will never forget.

Wait until she has her first good fall, or bump on the head.

** I take it back, it never gets any easier** LOL

I was just getting ready to post that I am surprised you would let the man get their hands on her to implant some micro chip in her under the auspices of it being a vaccine.

It is going to be very interesting to watch you change your tune over the next few years.

Welcome to growing up.

I remember getting a call when my daughter was about two. Due to our work schedules she had to go to child care for about three hours a day.

I got a call at work that the sitter had been holding her hand while she was trying to walk. My daughter fell, and since one hand was being held she could not put her hands in front of her and she smashed her chin into the floor causing her two lower teeth to go in front of the two upper teeth, which resulted in the two lower teeth now being perpendicular to her face. In other words, they stuck out horizontally.

I raced over to the sitter, picked up the kid and met my wife at the doctors. The two teeth would have to come out. The question was, do we give her a local or just yank them. I decided I did not want unnecessary drugs injected in her, so I wrapped her up tight in a blanket and held her while the doc pulled them. The wife stayed in the outer office.

Fletch, this reminds me of a hot tip. Go buy a red washcloth. They come in very handy for incidents like this because blood does not show up on them and blood scares the crap out of them.

You can thank me later.

Our daughter had to have a swine flu injection last week ( she is 16 months now ) and she was great didn't even feel it... we were expecting big screams going from when she got her 2 month jabs.

30 seconds of crying is nothing.