Vaccination

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Sophocles

We took our daughter in for her first round of vaccinations today. We asked the doctor about 21 questions, Pretty routine stuff, all straight forward first time parent type questions. He spent a lot of time, for a doctor at least, explaining what all the different things mean, how they affect our daughter and what we should do in response to them. The doctor was even able to make my wife relax a little bit about calling their office after hours.
We have decided to break up the shots that the baby gets, they would prefer that she get three shots at each office visit. We are going with the one shot a week philosophy and after our daughter got her first shot I am very thankful that someone gave us that bit of advice. The pain from the shot must of been fairly serious, it really made our daughter cry. It hurt her so much that my wife started to cry too!!
The funny thing about dealing with other people, especially medical people, is that the always assume things. We show up for this appointment and the nurse asks if we have given our daughter some motrin or tylenol to deal with the pain. We don't own motrin or tylenol, have never been advised that sometimes it's a good idea for kids to take pain medication before something hurts them or what the proper dosage of pain killer for an infant is. It seems kind of irrational to give someone, especially someone who has never had a shot before so we have no idea how she will react to the pain, medicine just in case. We have another appointment in two months, I will be calling the day before to find out if there is anything we should do before we bring our daughter in for that appointment.