Today Erica turned 8 weeks old… and went for her shots and weigh-in.<\/p>\n
For the weigh-in, she’s now 9lbs, 8oz, and has a double chin to show for it.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
As for the shots, she was\u00a0given a series of 4 shots- 2 on each thigh.\u00a0 E couldn’t watch, so I had\u00a0to hold her legs down while the shots were administered.\u00a0 The first\u00a0syringe was at least half full… and given the\u00a0size of\u00a0her leg in relation,\u00a0it seemed like\u00a0a lot.\u00a0\u00a0e’s reaction to:<\/p>\n
Shot #1\u00a0was “Hey, owww… what did you do that for?”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Shot #2 “OW!\u00a0 Hey you did it again!<\/p>\n
Shot #3 “WAAAH! You poked me in that leg already!!”<\/p>\n
Shot #4 “OK, OK that’s IT!\u00a0 You want real tears, you\u00a0GOT it!\u00a0 BWAAAAHHHHH!!!!”<\/p>\n
Thankfully she was ok taking the Infants Tylenol, but you have to\u00a0wonder about giving so many injections to someone so young, especially when her immune system is still developing.\u00a0\u00a0But that’s where trust with your healthcare\u00a0provider comes in.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So here’s something interesting we learned.\u00a0 If you were born before 1984, chances are you got a smallpox vaccine- the one that leaves a round scar on the arm just under the deltoid.\u00a0 Smallpox was “erradicated” in the early 80’s which is why kids nowadays don’t need the shot.\u00a0 I remember growing up and seeing everyone with the mark, but I guess this is one example of how vaccinations actually work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today Erica turned 8 weeks old… and went for her shots and weigh-in. For the weigh-in, she’s now 9lbs, 8oz, and has a double chin to show for it.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42 As for the shots, she was\u00a0given a series of 4 shots- 2 on each thigh.\u00a0 E couldn’t watch, so I had\u00a0to hold her legs down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekandevonne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}