Angela had her two month check up today where she received her first shots since her HepB shot she was given while still in the hospital. We went in at 2:30 and I was instructed to give her baby Tylenol prior to the appointment to ease some of the discomfort after she gets the shots. But if I was her, nothing would have been able to ease my pain after getting stabbed with three needles that WERE NOT tiny by any means. I now know why babies and kids hate going to the doctors.
When we got there we had to sit in the waiting room for at least fifteen minutes, maybe even twenty. Then after entering the room, we were instructed to strip her down to her diaper so she could be weighed and measured. When you strip a baby naked, you expect them to be in a somewhat warm room....NOT HERE!! It was freezing, I am never cold and I was cold so I can only imagine how Angela was sitting in that room naked for so long. Then we had to wait for the Doctor to come in, but she wanted Angela naked for the examining so we couldn't get her dressed while we were waiting for another ten minutes. After she came in, the Doctor checked her lungs and heart, her eyes, her nose, her ears and then her mouth. It was at that point that Dr. Jones-Dees told me that Angela has thrush. THRUSH!!!! I can't believe that my little girl has the fungus that I told myself she would never get. But not only does she have it in her mouth, I have it on my boobs and after every feeding we have to give her medicine and we have to wash her Nuk everytime it leaves her mouth. That's quite a feet when you have an infant that can't exactly keep the tightest hold on her beloved Nuk.
After the Dr. Jones-Dees left, the nurse came in and gave her shots to her, and I have never heard a cry that loud and that horrifying. And now that we are home, the hardest part has hit...she is in pain because of the shots in her legs, she's struggling to eat because of the Thrush, she just wants to be comforted but it's almost always unsuccessful, and she's frustrated with all the new medicines that she has to be given. I have a feeling that these next few days are going to be the hardest I've ever had.
The facts from the hospitals' standings however is that she weighs 12 pounds 5 ounces, is 23" in length, and her head circumference is 15.25". A little different then what we received at WIC, but they are close enough.
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