The fourth week and getting a shot....

Just about a couple of weeks ago, three of us went to our family doctor for Erin's 2-month checkup. As usual, a nurse weighted my daughter and did all the paperwork. After a while, our doctor came in and started talking about my daughter. She let us know that Erin gained over 5 pounds, so she was now over 11 pounds (about 5 kilograms). That's why I felt she was heavy whenever I washed her.

She showed us a chart to make sure that Erin was absolutely growing in good shape. My wife was so proud of feeding my daughter, and started talking about how hard she was for breastfeeding. I have heard of it more than 100 times so far, so I tried to ignore it.

While both of us were arguing, our big project for the day finally started. In fact, we went to our doctor to get a vaccination shot for Erin, not for fighting about the breastfeeding issue. Of course, Erin was laughing because she never knew what would happen to her in 5 minutes.

Few minutes later, our nurse, who weighted my daughter, came in again with two scary shots and a bottle called an oral shot. There are technically so many kinds of vaccination shots for an infant, so I do not remember all their names because we are still far away from getting them (NONE OF MY BUSINESS YET!!!).

After getting a couple of shots, our doctor began to talk about several side effects of vacciantion shots. Also, she asked us not to be upset although my daughter would be sick for a while at night. When we were on the way back home, we bought an infant Tylenol called Acetaminophen. Fortunately, she looked just normal and cried only for few hours which was endurable for both of us (we already got used to her crying). Even, I did not use the Tylenol I bought. It was the waste of money (I cannot return it because I already opened it), but I really appreciate that she is OK.