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immunizing twins...
We immunized the twins yesterday. Erm... a couple of months late, but we still did it. It was horrible. Horrible! They cried. I cried. It was a sob fest dotted here and there with me panicking about autism and checking my kids for eye contact after each shot. Oh god it was horrible.
The lady giving the shots (3 in one go! 2 in one arm, 1 in the other - torture!) was really sweet but older than jesus and as slow as all hell. We go in there, it's all good, both girls toddle around to give the nurse a cuddle and a smile, everything is happy and hunky dory... she farts around on the computer for 20 minutes, preps some needles, answers my ridiculous autism questions for 5 minutes, gets some swabs, reassures me that no, they don't already look autistic. Yep, they're making eye contact. No, her runny nose combined with these shots won't develop into SARS. That's not a rash, it's a mark from where you've been holding her. No, these shots won't be affected by the rash, because there is no rash...
We wrangled the girls' tops off, and they started to suspect that something was up. They started wriggling. Kaitie was first, and she's usually second. Something wasn't right. DH held Kaitie tight, the first jab went in, she screamed bloody murder. Lochie freaked out, and started screaming bloody murder. The second jab went in. Kaitie lost it and tried to fling herself out of DH's arms and onto the floor. Lochie was tearing at me trying to get to her twin. Kaitie saw the third jab coming and lost her shiit - Lochie started trying to scramble for the door. It was over. Cue binkies and cuddles and songs and milk.
Another 15 minutes of the terror of anticipation for both girls as the nurse prepped things for Lochs. Everytime the nurse made a move Kaitie screamed and hid her little head. Horrifying.
Then it all started over again for Lochie. Right after poor Kaitie was so visibly stressed that we had to take her out of the room, while Lochie wailed as she recovered from her 3 vicious and unprovoked jabs.
When it was all over we carried our shaking, sniffling, whimpering little girls down the stairs, through the reception full of people staring at us in shock with their mouths open ( I'm assuming that everyone in the building heard the entire ordeal ) and out the door, into the car and for the 20 minute drive we felt like the worst parents in the world as our little girls sniffled, quitely cried and whimpered from the back seat.
And now every time one of them does something strange I'm all like "Gah! Autism!" DH thinks I should be medicated. I'm starting to agree.
Sigh. Thank god it wasn't triplets.
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Re: immunizing twins...
Poor Kaitie and Lochie! ITA with hamilton. That nurse sucks. Our nurse is always very quick. She gets the syringes ready while she's answering my questions (all of 5 minutes), then it's a quick pull the pants down, jab, bandaid (plaster) and pull the pants back up. I immediately give him his dummy and a quick cuddle and he's fine.
Jesus, I would have freaked out too if the appointment lasted that long! Major hugs Tofu.
I always hate going to immunization appointments. I never cry until we're home and D and I are cuddling on the couch afterward. This is why I buy him a toy everytime he gets a jab. Three jab in one day = three toys. Yep, I'm a sap.
I know, right? It would have been so much easier to be jab, jab, turn, jab - next kid, jab, jab, turn, jab SOOTHE!
But nooooooo. She was the anticipation witch!
And they got it in their little arms
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Which jabs did the girls have yesterday? I don't remember D having any in his arm - they were all done on his legs.
MMR and something else.
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That nurse was horrid! Seriously, complain about her. No reason it should have taken even 1/4 of that time.
In terms of parent pain, well, we just have to buckle through it. With DH's work schedule I did all of BabyD's immunizations by myself for the first year. Pretty much just have to hold them down really well and save the parent tears for later when the munchkin isn't looking. Not my favorite event at all, but necessary. Definitely cause for a drink after they go to bed.
So I'll admit i don't cry at all about my kids crying over shots. I look at it as I'm doing them a favor, maybe I'm heartless!
Also, next time see if you can request in the leg, I think its easier. We've been told since Bruce was 3 that we could pick either arm or leg and we always go with leg. It's eaiser to hold him down and I think its less painful becuase its a bit fattier down there (at least for my kid it is).
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This is me too. I also actually like how tired and calm M is after he gets shots.
oh how terrible
G always gets them in the arm too - but I go to a place where the doctor and the nurse do a jab each at the same time - so it really is only a moment of pain, then we recover
it's always terrible for the parents though too!
First of all, I agree that the nurse sucks! This should have been handled differently. She could have been faster, and quite frankly, a second nurse would have solved a lot of problems regardign the twins' anxiety towards seeing the other one panic.
But second of all, and more important: Do not worry about autism as a result of immunization shots! The study linking autism and MMR vaccination turned out to be fraudulent.
It was a set up and carefully planned fraude, with as proof a "study" supporting his "theory" that there was a link. The study turned out to be fake, with as a bigger plan becoming rich developing a vaccine that was "safe" and selling it for a lot of money.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMR_vaccine_controversy .
If you ask me, Andrew Wakefield is a murderer.