BOOSTER JAB TOMORROW - DO I TELL DS BEFORE?

[willow2]

Ds has a booster jab tomorrow - should I warn him in the morning; when we go to the doctor's or just let the nurse tell him? This is the first one where he has been old enough to understand where that long pointy thing is going to go. I don't know whether to tell him in advance and risk having him get all worked up - or not tell him, lose his trust and have him think that every trip to the doc's might involve a jab.

Then again, I could just tell him and promise that we will go straight to the toyshop once it is done...

Advice please dear ladies.

Tell him in the morning, but make it part of a list of the whole day's activities (including the toyshop maybe). With ds's last one he knew before & he wasn't bothered at all. In fact he said I was gripping him so tight I hurt him more!
Which booster is it? I still haven't taken ds for his Hib or MMR.

definitely tell. my dd1 went with her friend who got a sticker (she got one too) and we got icecreams on the way back. no big deal, and I think springing it on them when you get there is a bit deceptive and scary. good luck!

I still haven't been for DS's hib or mmr booster either... been on my list of things to do for ages and been really chicken about getting it done.

good luck with it willow? let us know how it goes won't you.

We did tell DS (2 and a half when he had his last jabs0 but in a casual way once we were in the waiting room, and said we would be going straight to Woolworths 9his favourite shop) from the doctors...not as 'com[pensation' for a dreadful thing that was going to happen, but just to get his mind focussed on something else once the info had been imparted. Then once in the surgery DP (it was his turn!) produced a new little car in a box just as he sat him on his lap, and the DR had done the deed with DS barely noticing before he had fully extracted it from the box. Unwrapping an M&S chocolate Lolly has a similiar effect.

Thanks chappesess - think I'll load up on chocolate as decoy material.

Bettys - it's the three-in-one booster (not MMR). He had MMR first time around - and was fine - but am horribly confused as to whether to give it to him again.

PS: I need more help on my HELP ME WRITE A BOOK THREAD - can people who haven't posted please go and look at it - she said with a naughty