2 Month Appointment

This past Friday afternoon Aaron and I took Loralye in for her 2 month checkup. It was Aaron's first time going to one of Loralye's appointments and it probably wasn't a good one to start with. She needed vaccinations and got three shots in her poor little thighs and an oral vaccine as well. She was not happy about any of it! Then to top it all off neither my doctor, nor the nurse giving the shots warned me about the side effects. I should have asked questions, but I just thought it would be like the last vaccine she got where we were just careful with the injection site for a few days. Oh no! By about 8pm Loralye was crying so much that she wouldn't eat at all and her thigh where she got two of her three shots was swollen and red. I would have normally called my mom to see what I should do, but she was on a cruise with my dad so I just called the doctor's office. The on call doctor first told me to just give her some baby Tylenol and put a warm compress on her leg. But then she asked me if the injection site was warm to the touch. It was and she told me to go the the Emergency Room! Oh my goodness! I was already in tears before that but that news totally freaked me out! So off to the ER we went! After many many prayers in the car that Loralye would sleep until we got her some help, we arrived at the hospital and she did indeed lightly sleep until we saw a nurse. Sadly we didn't get to see the nurse for over an hour and every time Loralye moved in her sleep her whole face scrunched up in pain and she would wail until I could get her to sleep again. And to top it all off, all the nurse did was put a thermometer up her poor little bum (she was not happy about that!!) and then tell us we would have to wait a long while before getting any kind of treatment from the doctor! At this point I'm tired, scared, and completely shaken up so I tell Aaron to go outside and call someone to come help him give Loralye a blessing. While he's outside he gets the good idea to call his mom (why didn't we think of that sooner?!?!) and she tells him that everything that Loralye's going through is normal and we just need to give her some baby Tylenol and put something cool on her leg. So we tell the nurses we're leaving, stop off at Walgreens for some medicine, and head home. Within an hour she was medicated, fed, and asleep until the next morning. Wendy saved our night! And saved Loralye from several hours of pain that she would have endured if we had stayed at the ER. I'm so mad at my doctor and nurse for not warning me about what to expect! New mom's should not have to deal with that!! Ugh. Thank heaven Miss L was about 99% better by the next morning! Poor little dear. We did find out that she is still in the 90th percentile for both height and weight - 23 3/4in and 12lb 5oz. Grow little girl, grow! Well, here's a picture from last Thursday... 9 weeks old!

Love ya'll! Oh... 7 more days until our 2 year anniversary!! Yay!!! =)