Two-month doctor's visit

William had his two-month checkup on Friday, and the doctor was happy with his growth and health. One side of his head is a little flatter than the other and one of his ears is pushed a little further forward on his head than the other which the doctor attributes to spending more time sleeping on the right side of his head. He showed us how to stretch out Will's neck muscles by hugging him in a certain way which will make it more comfortable for him to turn to the other side when he sleeps and remedy the slight asymmetry. We sorted out his weepy left eye - a blocked tear duct that we will massage daily and keep clean and should resolve itself by 6-9 months. William got immunizations for Diptheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Hepatitis B, Polio, Hib, Pneumococcal, and Rotavirus (whew!). Rotavirus was an oral vaccine, and the nurse had him suck it from a little plastic dispenser. DTaP, Polio, and Hib were in a combined shot, Hep B was another shot, and Pneumococcal was another shot. Poor William took the shots like a champ, and got three bandaids on his chubby thighs...he cried as soon as the nurse stuck him and then stopped once Nang picked him up from the table.

I thought we were homefree after the doctor's visit, but after a long nap, William woke up crying and then screaming until he ran out of breath as soon as we picked him up. His thigh was red and swollen where he got two shots. Dr. Hogan instructed us to give Infants' Tylenol if the baby seemed to be in pain or get a fever. We'd never heard William screaming/cry like he was, so I hightailed it to Randall's for the drug, and Nang stayed with the baby. The grocery store shelf where the Infants' Tylenol would be was completely cleaned out. I didn't know what was going on, so I headed over to Walgreens and ran into a similar situation. I didn't remember that there was a recall on all of the Infants'/Children's Tylenol products, so I picked up the last box of the generic Walgreen's version, got the dosing information from the pharmacist for a 14 pound two-month old, and rushed back home. After the medicine, a feeding, and a long nap, William woke up as his old happy self. Nang and I concurred that this was one of the roughest things we've been through with him, and it just broke our hearts to see him hurting so badly. We talked about how hard it is going to be to watch him suffer through things as he gets older, and what will happen when he breaks up with his first girlfriend. Nang thinks that we'll sit around with him and listen to sad songs - I don't think that he'll want anything to do with his dorky, old parents!