Preparing for immunisation
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Topic: Preparing for immunisation
Posted By: Redbedrock
Subject: Preparing for immunisation
Date Posted: 23 January 2007 at 4:08pm
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Fay has her first set of injections tomorrow, and while she is blissfully ignorant of this fact, I am a little apprehensive. What can I do to make this easier for her but probably mainly for me?
thanx Claire ------------- http://www.babysfirstsite.com"> 
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 23 January 2007 at 4:50pm
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Get someone else to hold her. That was the hardest thing for me so I got DH to hold Andrew. The dr will prob give you a script for panadol that you can give her afterwards if she is a little unsettled. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: jax
Date Posted: 23 January 2007 at 5:09pm
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Take someone with you ! LOL That's if you can, I had my mum come with me, and I cried more than Erin did - she sailed right through them, only noticeable "side effect" was that she was a bit drowsy after (but very common occurrance). ------------- Jacquie - Mama to Erin, 13.07.06 - Chief Cat Chaser & Marmite Sammie Eater 
Love many, trust few, harm none. ~Anon~ |
Posted By: james
Date Posted: 23 January 2007 at 5:15pm
yep get someone to hold her i could,nt do it either and mum ended up holding james for me and as done so for all imms and dont worry jax i cried like a baby with all of james ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 23 January 2007 at 5:16pm
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I had to do them on my own and the anticipation was far, far worse than the actual event. There's nothing you can do to prepare Fay but she will have completely forgotten within a minute or two.
Just make her clothes easy ones to take off and be prepared to feed her right after. You will probably get a script for Pamol (baby panadol) to use if you need to, but I have never needed it for immunisations. -------------  |
Posted By: Andie
Date Posted: 23 January 2007 at 5:31pm
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OK - buy Pamol beforehand if you don't have any, so you don't have to wait for ages at the chemist afterwards. She might not need it, but it's great to have in the house just in case. And if she does end up needing it, then try giving it to her before her next lot of immunisations - that's what our nurse advised for Ella, and it helped. Our GP said not to give them Pamol before their first ones though, because not all babies need it, so it's best to wait and see. And if possible, ask if there's 2 nurses available to do a shot each at the same time. Ella had 2 injections and the first appointment that's what they did - she only got the one fright, rather than one after another. Second time around they didn't have 2 nurses there, so we lucked out. Fay will be OK - it's more worrying for us than it is for them. She won't see the needle so she won't be panicking at all beforehand. ------------- Andie |
Posted By: SuziE
Date Posted: 23 January 2007 at 5:32pm
Great thread. Just thinking about this makes me cry 
Thomas has'nt started his immunes yet so we are going to be in catch up mode ... first jabs next week .. both DH and I are wooses  Trying to think of who to take to hold him that is staunch enough .... ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Andie
Date Posted: 23 January 2007 at 5:45pm
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It might sound a bit cold, but I don't think that babies are born with a fear of needles or even the knowledge that they're gonna sting... so seriously guys, bubs won't have any idea anything is up before those first immunisations!! So try not to panic, chances are your baby isn't! ------------- Andie |
Posted By: ooEvaoo
Date Posted: 23 January 2007 at 6:02pm
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Yeah but its our own fears that is getting the better of us.
We know the the needle is going to hurt even though our babies are oblivious to the fact. Oh and when you know the little one is going to cry  it just breaks your heart.
My little man is due for his 6 week jabs, and I'm not looking forward to it as I have to do it alone ------------- 
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Posted By: Redbedrock
Date Posted: 23 January 2007 at 6:18pm
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i just think it is the thought that she is soo little, and that is my defense against anything really.
I am a nurse so i have no phobia of the needles and would hope not to pass my concerns onto Fay,she had several blood tests while in hospital for one thing and another, it was more the after effects I was thinking of for her. I have Pamol now, after an embarrassing trip to A&E last week, might fess up to that one in another thread whne I stop being so embarrassed, but just wasn'tr sure about giving her some before hand, or wait and see how she is. I will take a bottle with me to feed her during or just afterwards and her dummy thanx guys ------------- http://www.babysfirstsite.com">
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Posted By: Redbedrock
Date Posted: 23 January 2007 at 6:23pm
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Also like the idea of getting her jabbed by 2 nurses at the same time, I will ask about that one, thanks Andie ------------- http://www.babysfirstsite.com">
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 23 January 2007 at 6:36pm
Good luck to all babes who are due their 6wk imms . I was totally distressed at taking Alize for his and Im a practice nurse who done imms everyday at work(before mat leave) lol. Different when their your own ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 23 January 2007 at 7:04pm
Andie - funny, my nurses said giving Pamol beforehand didn't really make much difference ah the medical profession 
Suzi - my first couple of times I just got the bubby laid on the bed for the imms. I had to help hold the leg still but I found that easier than holding the entire baby. I too am a wuss, I still don't look when I have blood tests  and yep have fainted a few times when I have seen minor things for other people.------------- |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 23 January 2007 at 8:37pm
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yeah i thought that too actually about the pamol.
Definately be prepared to give baby a breastfeed or take a bottle to feed her so that you can have it right there, take the dummy if you use one. the nice thing is that they forget so quick with the first ones.. and even the next few. once they get to 15 month ones it's harder.. can only imagine what 5 yr ol ones are like. lol.. have done a few stints in gp's practices and it's the 5 yrs ones and some of the 11 yr olds that seem to make the biggest fuss. (cannot beleive the amount of trouble and chaos we had trying to give an 11 yr old his imms once.. ended up sending him home without them.) I don't really like the idea of having them both done at once. I think it seems a bit brutal.. but just my opinion, works for some, but i like being able to hold baby properly so leg doesn't kick around while the injection is being done, and cuddle them into me, give them a hug and turn them around takes 2 secs longer. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: SuziE
Date Posted: 23 January 2007 at 9:26pm
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It funny but its not the needle so much that upsets me (although geting needled twice is abit yucky and seeing him upset upsets me too), its the thought of all that foreign stuff being pumped into him I find upsetting and the worry of reactions ... ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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