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Baby vaccines

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Sunshinesamba21 · 13/03/2024 16:05

Just took baby for vaccines. First, the appt was delayed by 1.5 hrs so we were a bit out of kilter for naps etc but we eventually got seen. 4 jabs to get, 2 in each leg. Dd screamed and cried her eyes out. I had to hold down her legs. Never seen so many tears. I felt terrible. The room was very small. Baby was wriggling about crying and i couldn't get her trousers on, never mind her coat. There was basically no room to swing a cat, I stood up whilst wondering what i was meant to do or how I was going to dress her. She wasn't sitting nicely on my knee anymore like she had been when i took them off. The nurse just got up, opened the door, stood beside it waiting for me to leave. I had to put a bawling dd in the pram (she did not want to go in the pram) with no trousers or coat on. Maybe IAMBU and this is the way it is for everyone - the nhs are on a tight schedule so take the vaccine and go. There was no one else in the waiting room though, surely she could have spared me a few mins for baby to calm down or offered help to get her dressed again?! I was told to give dd calpol immediately afterwards on the letter, i ended up administering this outside since i was basically turfed out! Is this normal??

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Chamomileteaplease · 14/03/2024 12:26

OP I really cannot see why you couldn't have put your baby's trousers on in the waiting room. You could chuck the coat and all the stuff into the pram leaving you two hands free. No rush, time to cuddle baby first to calm her down. Or use the changing mat in the loo? No one would turn a hair seeing a baby without their trousers on.

If all parents got all the babies and children dressed again after their jabs it would honestly take ages! I don't know how long your appt is but at our surgery it is 10 mins from bringing up baby's notes to getting them back out the door.

Of course the nurses do usually remain kind and caring which it sounds like yours wasn't. But I really don't think you are seeing it from their side at all.

hangingonfordearlife1 · 14/03/2024 12:42

i think you are a very new mom and probably abit precious. You are going to face far more stressful situations. i'm in a foreign country where you literally put your baby on table, they inject and then you walk out no messing.

The calpol thing is silly too it's just paracetamol it doesn't matter what time you give it, i only give it if they get abit red cheeked and hot, there's no need to panic about what time you are giving it to the milisecond.

The nurse is probably really busy- next time go straight to baby change and think nothing of it

DieselBlue89 · 14/03/2024 14:38

That sounds really stressful, and similar experience as my eldest's vaccinations. For my youngest, I had them split into 2 lots of 2 (separated by a few months) and it was far less stressful. 4 jabs is too much (we wouldn't do that to an adult) and then the immune response to 6 different diseases is hard to deal with.

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