So today my chunk-meister had his two month appointment. Along with the normal weigh-in, length measurement, poking and prodding, came the vaccinations.
I was well aware that the cooing, smiling boy kicking his legs happily on the examination table would soon be turned into a screaming fiend, but it still didn't prepare me for the look on his face when the nurses on either side of him jabbed the large needles into his thighs.
"Hold his arms mom," one of the nurses said. I calmly pressed his hands to his chest thinking Well this helped when they had to draw his blood, so he should be fine...Right? Nope.
The look on Link's face one can only describe as pure agony. His face turned the deepest shade of red that it could possibly be and his mouth opened so wide I almost thought his jaw had unhinged. At first there was no sound...silence before the storm...and then...
WAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!AHHHHHH!!!!!WAH! WAH! *COUGH* *COUGH*
Rinse. Repeat. All the way through me putting his clothes back on and packing him up in the car-seat ready to go.
When I walked out of the room all the nurses stared at me as if I had just ran a marathon naked. He was that loud.
Thankfully, as soon as I popped Link into the car and started driving he became comatose. Since then he has been just a cuddle bug. Doesn't want to be away from me.
So this is the lesson I give to future and new moms....
Yes. Shots stink. BUT...
Cuddling is the best.
