4 month immunisation

Sienna had her 4 month immunisation on Tuesday and Matt and I go the Swine Flu injection.

I was quite anxious for Sienna getting her second lot of immunisations but as I sat there talking to my doctor about the Swing Flu injection Matt and I were about to get I actually started to envy Sienna. At least she didn’t know she was about to get injections…she didn’t have the heavy feeling of needle anxiety that I was suffering.

After filling out the swine flu form or the “Bureaucrap” as my doctor liked to call it I received the injection. There was a little sting and more pain to follow as the fluid entered my arm. Now, I found the whole experience quite painful (and I’ve been through childbirth) but Matt did not even feel it! In fact he didn’t even realise that he had been given it. I felt like a real “girl”

With our injections over we could now concentrate on Sienna. Lying there on the doctor’s bed was like a little game to her and she loved his stethoscope. She was all smiles and drank the Rotavirus liquid with gusto. She then received an injection in both legs. Her smiles soon turned to tears but were thankfully over within a couple of seconds. It’s a good thing that babies don’t remember these experiences.

She was fine all day but about 5.30pm she began to get very upset. I gave her baby Panadol that I purchased on Bartercard. This helped a little but I think I gave it to her too late. She pretty much cried for about 2 hours and after pure exhaustion fell asleep in my arms.

It is really hard to watch your baby suffer. I know what it is like to feel lousy but at least for babies they can be held and comforted by the people who care for them the most and being a mother there is nothing more important than making sure that your baby feels safe, secure and loved.

The 4 month immunisation protects baby from:

• Hepatitus B
• Diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough)
• Haemophilus influenzae type b (hib)
• Poliomyelitis
• Pneumococcal disease
• Rotavirus

Why immunise?

This information has been sourced from “Save our Sleep” by Tizzie Hall

Some potentially life-threatening childhood diseases are preventable through immunisation, an important consideration as babies’ less developed immune systems put them at bigger risk of infection than adults. Mothers pass some immunity onto their babies but this eventually wears off. Childhood diseases are also a lot more serious in babies than in adults, for example, whooping cough is not usually very sever in adults but for a baby it can be fatal. Another case in point is measles: four in every 100 babies with measles goes on to develop pneumonia, and about one in every 2000 develops a brain inflammation which can lead to brain damage and even death.

In the past 15 years, measles has caused more deaths in Australia than diphtheria, whooping cough and rubella put together. Another good part to the immunisation story is that there is safety in numbers: if enough people are immunised, diseases like whooping cough and measles will start to disappear from our community altogether, like smallpox.

More post about immunisation:

Alora’s 2 month immunisation

Sienna’s 2 month immunisation

 

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