Immunisations

Oh the confusion!!  I find all these timeline things so baffling.  The maternal health nurse said to get immunisations done at the 6 wk GP check up; the GP said to get them done at the city council; the city council said the maternal health nurse would do it at the 8 wk check.  What the...?  I know I'm supposed to get my baby immunised, but noone seems to want to do it!  I queried the lady at city coucil, who thought that the confusion was maybe because there was a new 6 wk immunisation in addition to the 8 wk ones.  She said she'd call me back.

Turns out that they now encourage you to do it at 6 wks due to the increase of whooping cough in small babies.  But I don't feel so bad about not knowing when to do them as nobody else seems to either!  She said to come in and they'd do them that day.

So on Tuesday I took my little 7 wk, 5 day old boy in and held him still while they gave him his first non-breastmilk drink (funny faces, but no drama there) and stabbed him in both legs (lots of tears then).  I must admit, I got a little teary myself.  I made the mistake of watching the big long needle go in on the first leg.

He calmed down amazingly quickly though, and became very sleepy for the next day or so.  He then became a bit 'fragile' for a couple days after that...just a bit sooky and wanting lots of cuddles.  My poor baby.

I have really enjoyed his big smiley playtime coming back today - so cute!