Thats her poor, cute little chubby thigh with a BLOODY bandaid. Mean nurse who stuck my poor little defenseless baby with a needle!! It was very traumatic for the both of us.
But back to my original point about why Im not a fan of doctors. At her 6 wk appt, they tried to give her SIX vaccines after I called prior to the appt to make sure that it wasnt for shots because I didnt want her to have any. But alas, we show up for appt and they try to give her the shots. So then we spent her 6 wk appt going over a vaccination schedule that I was somewhat okay with. To be honest, I really have doubts about any of these vaccines and if the school district didnt make it mandatory I wouldnt get any of them -- and btw its ridiculous that the government tells me that I have to shoot my daughter up with drugs. But I digress..
Okay so today at her two month appt, she was supposed to get ONE shot (which was the pnuemococcal vaccine) and one oral vaccine (which is the rotavirus vaccine). At the 6 wk appt, I had AGAIN declined the Hep B vaccine (which I had already signed & declined at her birth) & signed the waiver and set up this schedule. So we show up and they gave me a copy of the bill ahead of time, which was the only reason I caught that they had her schedule for a whole slew of vaccines. UGH. Here we go again. So I re-explain all of this to the nurse AGAIN. She claims to be getting everything ready. Then she comes & gets me and puts me on the phone with the pediatrician who again tries to get me to give her multiple shots. I again refuse & explain the schedule we had previously discussed, then he has to get back on the phone with the nurse to tell her what to give. But WTF -- we had already one over this & he had supposedly wrote it down in her chart. BTW - I checked her chart and he had somewhat wrote it down, but reversed it. Seriously, how on top of this do I need to be?! If I hadnt double checked everything, they would have gone ahead and stuck her with a million things. I was seriously annoyed.
So the oral vaccine wasnt bad, but of course she screamed bloody murder with the shot. I decided to sit in the room and nurse her for a few minutes to get her to calm down, which seemed to work well. Then we nursed again when we got home and she seems to be fine.
The poor little thing. My SIL (who is a doctor) and I had a huge fight over this vaccine business at the Christmas dinner table. I was just saying that I don't get why my baby needs the antiobiotic eye ointment or the heb B right away when I've been tested up and down for YEARS and am clean. I think I should have the right to decline these things...and in NY, it is the law that ALL babies get this. I told her I was offended by it and wished we lived in another state (hopefully we will soon). In any event, she was furious at me for this...and said that it is absolutely necessary and there is no evidence of harm to the baby. My point being -so what? My baby from my body and I should have a right to direct her care. It got a little ugly. But, at least hubby was on my side. I can't believe how many chemicals they shoot them up with right away! I can't imagine how hard it is to watch them poke her!
ReplyDeleteThe AAP is encouraging pediatricians to 'fire' the parents in their practice who won't follow the recommended schedule. This happened to a friend of mine recently. They let her go at her 6 week visit, but said if she did not do the Hep B at the next visit, they wouldn't see her baby anymore. She refused to be bullied and called every pediatrician in a one hour radius until she found one that would work with her schedule. She wrote her old pediatrician a letter regarding why she was leaving his practice - turning the tables. She is very happy with her new pediatrician. Parents who take the time to educate themselves on the vaccination schedule, should be able to make their own decisions. And why do we have to sign a waiver? Do they sign they they will be responsible if something goes wrong? A good article I just read from the autistic community:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ageofautism.com/2010/01/vaccines-dont-cause-autism-pediatricians-do.html
The comments below the article are just as interesting. Best of luck and do what you believe is right for your baby - whatever that may be.