1st Jab
We brought joey for her 1st immunisation jab today. She's 6 weeks old now and Dr Jane says that she's big enough to start her jabs even though some babies got to wait till they're 2 months old.
Took her vital statistics. As at today, she weighs 5.4 kg (a bag of rice!) and measures 57cm long. So she's grown taller by 6cm since birth and weighs a whopping ton now! No wonder nowadays after carrying her for a period of time, my hands will go numb.
It was quite funny because for a split second when the needle went into her thigh, she did not make any sound, and I was still thinking to myself how come she's so brave. Then immediately after that split second, she went into a loud wail! And she wailed & wailed (but changes from a 'ah-so-painful' kind of cry to a 'boo-hoo-I'm-such-a-poor-thing' kind of cry.) even after the injection is over. So poor thing, I was telling Isaiah. Cos when adults go for jabs, at least they're sort of prepared in their hearts when the needle goes in. For babies, they would be just sleeping peacefully when suddenly a painful sensation occurs out of the blue. Catches them totally unawares.
See the little wound on little's joey's little thigh:
Thank God she immediately fell asleep upon reaching home and she's still sleeping now though it's past her feeding time by almost 2 hours. Think she's just very exhausted or maybe the jab is taking its effect on her? Anyway, I am monitoring her temperature every hour incase she runs a fever. Usually babies get fever after their jabs, so got to keep watch over her. Doc Jane prescribed some liquid panadol for her incase she runs a fever. So poor thing, got to feed her the medicine using a syringe!
Took her vital statistics. As at today, she weighs 5.4 kg (a bag of rice!) and measures 57cm long. So she's grown taller by 6cm since birth and weighs a whopping ton now! No wonder nowadays after carrying her for a period of time, my hands will go numb.
It was quite funny because for a split second when the needle went into her thigh, she did not make any sound, and I was still thinking to myself how come she's so brave. Then immediately after that split second, she went into a loud wail! And she wailed & wailed (but changes from a 'ah-so-painful' kind of cry to a 'boo-hoo-I'm-such-a-poor-thing' kind of cry.) even after the injection is over. So poor thing, I was telling Isaiah. Cos when adults go for jabs, at least they're sort of prepared in their hearts when the needle goes in. For babies, they would be just sleeping peacefully when suddenly a painful sensation occurs out of the blue. Catches them totally unawares.
See the little wound on little's joey's little thigh:
Thank God she immediately fell asleep upon reaching home and she's still sleeping now though it's past her feeding time by almost 2 hours. Think she's just very exhausted or maybe the jab is taking its effect on her? Anyway, I am monitoring her temperature every hour incase she runs a fever. Usually babies get fever after their jabs, so got to keep watch over her. Doc Jane prescribed some liquid panadol for her incase she runs a fever. So poor thing, got to feed her the medicine using a syringe! 
I pray she'll not get any fever at all, in Jesus' name. I also pray that she will sleep peacefully & get ample rest. Thank you, Jesus.
posted by Mummy Kless @ 12:44 PM
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