12 Week Shots - Baby screamed in pain for days after 8 week ones

[Emmmie]

8 week shots - one of the more traumatic events in my life. My poor baby could not stop screaming, wailing, red in face, losing breath and tears streaming down her cheeks for days. Nothing could stop this, nothing could distract her. We ended up in the A&E.
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I am furious at the GP who completely dissmised any vaccine related concerns I had, I am furious at the nurse who gave the shots and who completely downplayed the side effects, I am furious at myself for just trusting. I did not even go through the vaccine leaflets kindly provided by the NHS before I let them inject my baby.

Anyway, rant over. 12 week shots are coming up. If your baby screamed for days after their 8 week shots, could you please tell me how were they after their 12 week shots?

Please help, I am in absolute agony with worry. I cannot eat or sleep ☹ I simply cannot handle the thought of hurting/damaging her. I am so worried it will be worse this time.

I think your GP is right; I think people have genuinely forgotten the horror of those ‘childhood’ illnesses,

I agree. Being older I have had some of those illnesses - whooping cough, German measles, and measles which has left me with crap eyesight and damaged hearing.
I am also old enough to remember seeing kids in leg callipers as a result of polio. Back in the day parents were as fearful of polio as we are of meningitis.

I think you should have a chat with whoever is doing the injection and let them know what happened at the 8 week jabs. Is it worth asking for some emla cream for the injection site?

I was an au pair for two babies that had rotavirus and caught it off them as well. I was ropey for about a week. They were both hospitalised for roughly the same amount of time. Touch and go for one of them. It was awful when they were poked and prodded. Took weeks and weeks for them to recover fully once out of hospital. It was so awful.

I was overjoyed to hear this is now something we vaccinate against. Much easier to be a bit extra careful with nappies for two weeks than to see them waste away from rotavirus.

My baby had her 8 week jabs. She cried for the whole day after. It was awful. She didn’t want to feed, she cried until she was breathless, nothing could soothe her. We ended up taking her to A&E because I couldn’t stand to see her in pain like that. They gave her a higher dose of calpol and ibuprofen (according to her weight). The ibuprofen definitely helped.

Her 12 week jabs are coming up soon and I’m dreading them even more just knowing she might be the same and cry in pain for hours. I’m going to try get some liquid ibuprofen from the drs as that seemed to help last time.

honestly breaks my heart thinking about the jabs. Not nice at all seeing your child cry in pain from the moment they wake up to the moment they fall asleep and not wanting to feed they just cry.

it’s Genuinely terrifying

My great aunt spent her life in a wheelchair because of polio, my sister in law (now 60) has been in care her whole life because her mum had rubella whilst pregnant. She is severely physically and mentally disabled and looked after by the Sense organisation, who are wonderful, by the way. Thankfully, polio and German Measles are pretty much a thing of the past.

Vaccines work and are worth a few days of feeling ‘a bit off’. Anyway, you can’t know that that is what actually caused your baby’s pain … it could have been wind or any number of other mild conditions babies can get.

I’m sorry but you are over reacting.

@Emmmie
Hi there! I hope you don’t mind me asking, but how is your child now a couple of years on? My daughter seems to have had a similar response to her vaccines and I am worrying myself into a stupor about possible neurological damage long term (yes, I am very anxious!!).
and did your child have a similar reaction with any of the other vaccines?
Many thanks in advance !