Yesterday Austin turned 2 months old! It's so hard to believe that he's getting so big!
He had his 2 month appointment at the pediatrician's office. I really really wrestled with what to do about vaccinations. I want him to have them all, but I was (am) very worried about his small little body handling all of them at once. But I also didn't want to drag them out, I wanted to get them all done at once so he wouldn't have to go through all those sticks so many times.
I finally just decided to go with all three shots. Some argue that Hep B is an STD, but I have always understood it not to be, that sex is just the easiest way to transmit it, and if someone with Hep B leaves any trace of blood from a cut or mucous, someone could touch it & then their mouth, and then the rest is potentially devastating history. Austin already had the first shot at the hospital. When I was being wheeled to the OR the nurses were shoving papers at me to sign. Consents, etc. They handed me the sheet on the Hep B shot. I had not researched it yet, and I didn't know what to do. I asked everyone what they would do and they said they'd sign it, so I just did. Had I thought about it, I probably wouldn't have signed it. At that point I thought Austin just weighed 3 pounds. I can't imagine a vaccine being safe for him. Thankfully he is fine. So I decided to finish it because I don't want Austin with Hep B and he already started it... I did put off the Rotavirus oral immunization because he is stuffy. The pediatrician said he'd be fine, but I felt really really uneasy about it, so I put it off.
Of course he cried when he got the shots. Real tears too. It was heartbreaking. He calmed down when I picked him up and I immediately nursed him. I was so sad for him. He then went to sleep in the car and napped for a long time.
Then, he woke up. And cried. And cried. And cried. It was the saddest cry I ever heard. I gave him some Tylenol and rocked him in the recliner and cried with him. It was much harder watching him be in pain and not feel well than those days in the
NICU. At least then he wasn't sick or feeling bad. Finally at about half an hour it kicked it, and he was old Austin again. He continued to be a little fussy here and there the rest of the day, but all night he was fine and today he has been great!
It was really hard watching him get those shots and even harder to listen to his crying, but I know it'd be a million times harder watching him be really really sick. Being a mommy is hard. Making these kinds of decisions and doing these things because I know I need to is hard. But worth it!
By the way, Austin weighed in at 8lbs 12oz & 21 inches long!
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