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Shot Through The Heart, And You're To Blame
Trixie had her two-month checkup today, and everything is good. She's gaining weight like a champ and healthy as all hell. She's now 12 lbs, 14 oz and 24". She's in about the 90th percentile in size and weight. The doctor gave me a bit of a lecture about our bed-sharing tendencies, but too bad -- Dr. Sears says it's okay. (Side note: I'm starting to realize that a lot of the things that I think are good for our baby strike other people as weird. The bed-sharing is one thing, the babywearing (or "baby dangling" as my mother refers to it) is another. Everyone's entitled to an opinion, but as far as I'm concerned, if you don't agree with what we do, GET YOUR OWN BABY AND DO AS YOU PLEASE.)
Anyway, the only real dark spot in our day was when Trixie got her first set of vaccination shots. FOUR OF THEM. The look on her face after the pain of the first shot registered in her little baby brain broke my heart. Jeremy held her little hands and talked to her while I cried in the background. I know it's for her own good and all, but when you watch someone inflict pain on your baby, it makes you crazy. It's either cry, or wrestle the nurses to the ground, stick them with their own needles, and yell, "How do YOU like it?!" I decided to go with the crying. Next time, who knows? Check the paper in two months to see if I make headlines.
Posted March 22, 2006 10:19 PM | On This Day: 2004
The little man slept with me for the first year or so of his life and it ruled. Nursing in the middle of the night is much easier that way, we forged an especially close bond, studies show it dramatically reduces the risk of SIDs, and nope, I didn't have any problem moving him to his own room when he was a toddler. It's what people do in other parts of the world. Americans just get twigged out about the siliest things. Thankfully we have a pediatrician who gets attachment parenting.
As for the shots, that's hard. What's even worse...blood draws. When the little man was a toddler our pediatrician, who I do like but was ticked off at over this, insisted on doing a full round of bloodwork, with a blood draw from one of his chubby little arms, because we're vegan. Of course the results showed that he was getting everything he needed.
Posted by: Sharyn on Thu Mar 23, 2006 | ReplyI cried when both kids got their first round of shots. It seems to get a little better as they get older. This winter when Martin got his flu shot he told the nurse, "don't do that again".
Bed sharing shouldn't get a lecture. Unless it's with someone you don't know. Then maybe.
Posted by: Jennie on Thu Mar 23, 2006 | Replyoh no. Our favorite doc lectured you on bed sharing? Weird! I wouldn't expect that from her. I am gonna call you to hear what she said.
Posted by: mopsa on Thu Mar 23, 2006 | ReplyI'm on the anti-bed sharing side of that debate. I don't think it's a huge deal, but I think that it is never too soon to start fostering independence. Myles was sleeping 12 hours in his own bed within a couple of months.
Absolutely, though, to each his own. Do what feels right.
Friggin Hippie. (kidding) You go with your bed sharing and baby dangling. I would try that but our child will likely be too tall to fit in our bed at 2 months. Can you see the baby Buddie dangle...with feet actually on the ground along with mine!
Posted by: caryn on Thu Mar 23, 2006 | ReplyI absolutely love your comment that if you don't agree go get your own baby!!! LOL That had me cracking up! We didn't cosleep with our first two but we decided to try it for the next 4... HEAVEN!!!! We'll definitely be cosleeping with this little man when he comes. Mine have all slept so much better as have I! At six months I transition them to their beds but still cosleep part of the night while they night nurse. I've not encountered a problem yet.
You have figured out what it takes some moms a long time to understand... you do what's best for you and YOUR baby. In the long run you'll have a much easier time with your baby! See, you really are a genius!! :)
Posted by: Michelle on Thu Mar 23, 2006 | ReplyThanks, Michelle. When a mom of SEVEN thinks I'm doing alright, I think I'm on the right track.
Posted by: meghan on Thu Mar 23, 2006 | ReplyI'm sure when baby grows up not to have Tuberculosis or smallpox, she'll forgive you for letting the nurses give her shots. And if I had a baby that cute, I'd wear that baby all over town. She's cuter than the new Coach bags.
Posted by: Nora on Fri Mar 24, 2006 | Replyas long as that baby dangling thing isn't what Michael Jackson did...
Posted by: bill on Sun Mar 26, 2006 | ReplyWilliam Styron, whose Holocaust novel Sophie's Choice became a film and an opera, has died, aged 81...
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